Comments on: Avant Window Navigator for Ubuntu Edgy

By: Mac dock like avant-window-navigator for linux « .mrt memo

Mac dock like avant-window-navigator for linux « .mrt memo — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:51:57 +0000

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By: John

John — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:52:04 +0000

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

By: sinz

sinz — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:05:55 +0000

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 ?

By: Blank User

Blank User — Thu, 17 May 2007 02:58:28 +0000

This worked perfectly.

This sure beats following a tutorial!

By: “Dock” para Linux « freakcode’s blog

“Dock” para Linux « freakcode’s blog — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:17:56 +0000

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By: Paul Betts

Paul Betts — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:03:28 +0000

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!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:55:27 +0000

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?

By: Paul Betts

Paul Betts — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:02:11 +0000

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

By: john

john — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:39:42 +0000

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?

By: Tristan

Tristan — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:17:21 +0000

Now this is very cool, thanks