Avant Window Navigator for Ubuntu Edgy
I saw this new program on Digg today called Avant Window Navigator that looked pretty cool (despite the Digg kids misreading code.google.com as programs written by Google), but they only had RPMs on the download site so I cooked up a Debian / Ubuntu Edgy package (my first real package!) I haven’t tested this very thoroughly but it appears to work, let me know in the comments!
The deb file: http://www.paulbetts.org/projects/avant-window-navigator_0.1.1_i386.deb
To install:
Code Sample:
wget http://www.paulbetts.org/projects/avant-window-navigator_0.1.1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i avant-window-navigator_0.1.1_i386.deb
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Tristan said,
February 2, 2007 @ 6:17 pm
Now this is very cool, thanks
john said,
February 3, 2007 @ 11:39 am
I installed it and a the commandline did this:
john@hc-laptop:/usr/share/avant-window-navigator$ avant-window-navigator
bash: /usr/local/bin/avant-window-navigator: No such file or directory
what file is it looking for?
Paul Betts said,
February 3, 2007 @ 12:02 pm
Did you install this before without using a package? Programs installed to /usr/local “trump” those installed in /usr (in other words /usr/local/bin/gedit will always be run instead of /usr/bin/gedit for example). In any case, here’s the full path to the executable:
paul@persephone:~/Desktop$ which avant-window-navigator
/usr/bin/avant-window-navigator
Paul said,
February 7, 2007 @ 11:55 am
Using Ubuntu 6.10 and beryl svn with xgl. I installed Awn as per your instructions and it works very well---very impressed. A really useful addition to my desktop.
However, there are a few problems/doubts you may wish to comment on:
The Awn bar is at times a little reluctant to display itself in “front” of (what is know in Windows as) the tray (bottom). In these cases I need to left-click it and then it comes to the right side of the tray bar.
Additionally, icons within the Awn bar may remain “hidden” until I left-click on them.
I noticed from the authors site (http://code.google.com/p/avant-window-navigator/) that they recommend making a change to libwnck/private.h before installing Awn.
However, I was unable to find this file within my system.
What are the implications of this?
Could this be linked to the somewhat erroneous behaviour of Awn that I have seen?
Paul Betts said,
February 7, 2007 @ 3:03 pm
I left this change out because it would require building a patched version of libwnck and I didn’t want to be the cause of people’s system being messed up. However, I think the author found a way around the bug in his latest version so the next release should be fixed. You can also build the program yourself from the development sources if you don’t want to wait. Good luck!
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Blank User said,
May 16, 2007 @ 9:58 pm
This worked perfectly.
This sure beats following a tutorial!
sinz said,
June 7, 2007 @ 8:05 pm
i go this>>
(process:14359): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2242: initialization assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function
(process:14359): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)’ failed
(process:14359): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)’ failed
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
anyone have idea ?
John said,
November 15, 2007 @ 5:52 am
can’t figure out how to fix the whole libwnck18/22 issue…
just installed Gutsy Gibbon clean. got two problems…
./autogen gives me a dependency not met for libwnck18 (i have 22 installed and cannot find 18)
./configure (from another download) gives me a dependency prob with pygtk-2.0
any ideas? had awn working at one point in Feisty, but had to fresh install after synaptic crapped out on me…
thanks for the help
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