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jordanwb

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-07-01

Posts: 151

avant window navigator fails epicly

I installed the Avant Window Navigator, went to System->Preferences->Awn Manager in Gnome and it doesn't load. So I run the command associated with that menu item and get this error message:

[jordanwb@JORDAN-CD3CDA3B ~]$ awn-manager
/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/awn-manager/awnPreferences.py:195: DeprecationWarning: raising a string exception is deprecated
  raise "\nKey: [%s]%s isn't set.\nRestarting AWN usually solves this issue\n" % (group, key)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/awn-manager", line 203, in <module>
    awnmanager = AwnManager()
  File "/usr/bin/awn-manager", line 130, in __init__
    self.prefManager = awnPreferences(self.wTree)
  File "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/awn-manager/awnPreferences.py", line 97, in __init__
    self.setup_chooser(defs.APP, defs.ACTIVE_PNG, self.wTree.get_widget("activefilechooser"))
  File "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/awn-manager/awnPreferences.py", line 195, in setup_chooser
    raise "\nKey: [%s]%s isn't set.\nRestarting AWN usually solves this issue\n" % (group, key)

Key: [app]active_png isn't set.
Restarting AWN usually solves this issue

[jordanwb@JORDAN-CD3CDA3B ~]$

I can't restart Awn because I haven't been able to get it to load.

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Last edited by jordanwb (2008-10-12 01:54:53)

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: avant window navigator fails epicly

Try deleting your ~/.awn folder or whatever it's called.
By the way AWN is one big EPIC FAIL!

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jordanwb

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-07-01

Posts: 151

Re: avant window navigator fails epicly

What would you recommend in place of it?

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

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Re: avant window navigator fails epicly

Cairo Dock
Cairo Dock Plugins
Cairo Dock Themes

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luciferin

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Registered: 2007-05-10

Posts: 144

Re: avant window navigator fails epicly

AWN is heading for a major rewrite; read about it here.

I should see if it compiles ATM...

https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~awn-co … m-breakage

Endperform

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From: Atlanta GA, USA

Registered: 2007-09-04

Posts: 94

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Re: avant window navigator fails epicly

It's also broke with the update to Gnome 2.24:

[dethklok ~]$ avant-window-navigator 
avant-window-navigator: error while loading shared libraries: libgnome-desktop-2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: avant window navigator fails epicly

It's also broke with the update to Gnome 2.24:

[dethklok ~]$ avant-window-navigator 
avant-window-navigator: error while loading shared libraries: libgnome-desktop-2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This is to be expected with big updates like gnome. It needs to be recompiled against the new libraries. Either wait for a couple of days or recompile yourself via ABS.

intellitech

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From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2008-09-18

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Re: avant window navigator fails epicly

Temporary fix:

sudo cp -s /usr/lib/libgnome-desktop-2.so /usr/lib/libgnome-desktop-2.so.2

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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: avant window navigator fails epicly

No - the temporary fix is to recompile using ABS.   Symlinking libraries is very, very, very bad...

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ghostHack

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From: Bristol UK

Registered: 2008-02-29

Posts: 261

Re: avant window navigator fails epicly

Temporary fix:

sudo cp -s /usr/lib/libgnome-desktop-2.so /usr/lib/libgnome-desktop-2.so.2

No, the correct fix is to use ABS to rebuild the two packages 'avant-window-manager' and awn-extras-applets' so that they link against the correct library versions.
e.g:

sudo abs
mkdir ~/builds
cd ~/builds
cp -r /var/abs/community/gnome/avant-window-navigator .
cd avant-window-navigator
makepkg
sudo pacman -U avant-window*pkg.tar.gz
cd ..
cp -r /var/abs/community/gnome/awn-extras-applets .
cd awn-extras-applets
makepkg
sudo pacman -U awn*pkg.tar.gz
cd ..

edit: beaten by Allan

Last edited by ghostHack (2008-10-28 22:56:18)