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netmanny

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Registered: 2008-05-13

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[SOLVED] Awn

Has any one being able to get avant window navegator working under gnome or kde?:/
TIA for your help.

Last edited by netmanny (2012-09-29 15:12:19)

_Marco_

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 242

Re: [SOLVED] Awn

hi, report here the error that you get.
do you have a composite manager installed? (compiz,metacity compositor,xcompmng)
are you building it from source or getting it with pacman?
bye!

utore

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Registered: 2008-01-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Awn

The only way to install AWN is using the AUR. I don't use it in KDE or Gnome, but it works fine in Xfce for me.

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_Marco_

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Re: [SOLVED] Awn

uhm...

pacman -Ss avant-window-navigator
community/avant-window-navigator 0.2.6-1
    Fully customisable dock-like window navigator
    for GNOME
community/awn-extras-applets 0.2.6-2
    A collection of applets for
    avant-window-navigator

utore

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Re: [SOLVED] Awn

Not for Arch64 then.

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netmanny

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Registered: 2008-05-13

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Re: [SOLVED] Awn

well I am getting it with pacman and i have metacity ans e17 installed  and probably all of the dependencies I have double checked . I get no error messages   and  I'm using 2008-rc4.
Gnome and every other app that i though it will help.???

Megamixman

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Registered: 2008-05-04

Posts: 73

Re: [SOLVED] Awn

You need to have compositing enabled before you run AWN. Metacity has this as does E17, and Kwin. Compiz will also work. For Smaller Desktops, xcompmgr is a good composite manager that allows AWN to work.

Have you looked at Cairo-Dock ? I find it faster and smaller, even if it doesn't have the app integration AWN has. It has more effects if you want more eye candy.

_Marco_

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Registered: 2008-04-21

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Re: [SOLVED] Awn

netmanny,
since you have gnome installed try this:
- open 'gconftool'
- set to true /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager (this will enable the metacity compositor)
- launch avant-window-navigator

it should start correctly...

netmanny

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Registered: 2008-05-13

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Re: [SOLVED] Awn

That that worked , but it turns my video output to blue including the tv card is all blue faces I'll live it alone for now. Tanks any way.:D

technononsense

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Registered: 2008-07-04

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Re: [SOLVED] Awn

im havig trouble starting this up.

I followed all the instructions above but all i get is a grey cube in the top left corner of the screen and this error in the terminal;

** (avant-window-navigator:3979): WARNING **: Failed to make connection to session bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

** (avant-window-navigator:3979): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name: assertion `connection != NULL' failed

** (avant-window-navigator:3979): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed

** (avant-window-navigator:3979): WARNING **: There was an error requesting the name: receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote ly. Possible causes include: the remote ly. Possible causes include: the remote ly. Possible causes include: the remote ly. Possible causes include: 
*** glibc detected *** avant-window-navigator: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x089f6a78 ***

any ideas?

even

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From: Salvador, Bahia - Brazil

Registered: 2007-11-10

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Re: [SOLVED] Awn

Try use awn-agnostic from AUR http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19900.
And use xcompmgr.

hit

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From: Estonia

Registered: 2009-01-14

Posts: 79

Re: [SOLVED] Awn

netmanny,
since you have gnome installed try this:
- open 'gconftool'
- set to true /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager (this will enable the metacity compositor)
- launch avant-window-navigator

it should start correctly...

Didn't even know that metacity had compositing. Thank you very much!