AWN on KDE, on OpenSuse 10.3

What version of Awn is that? awn-preferences has been obsoleted by awn-manager since version 0.2.0.

Hi Mark

 Thanks for the info. But I tried another method, and have been partially successful. I tried installing AWN using OpenSuse's "One click install" and it did install. Also, i am able to run avant-window-manager when i type "avant-window-manager &".

 But now the problem is that I am not able to run the awn-manager. When i type "awn-manager &" at the terminal, this is what i get:

[1] 19180
floater@tenpointthree:~> /usr/share/avant-window-navigator/awn-manager/awnPreferences.py:182: DeprecationWarning: raising a string exception is deprecated
  raise "\nKey: "+key+" isn't set.\nRestarting AWN usually solves this issue\n"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/awn-manager", line 199, in <module>
    awnmanager = AwnManager()
  File "/usr/bin/awn-manager", line 100, in __init__
    self.prefManager = awnPreferences(self.wTree)
  File "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/awn-manager/awnPreferences.py", line 164, in __init__
    self.setup_color(TITLE_BACKGROUND, self.wTree.get_widget("backgroundcolor"))
  File "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/awn-manager/awnPreferences.py", line 182, in setup_color
    raise "\nKey: "+key+" isn't set.\nRestarting AWN usually solves this issue\n"

Key: /apps/avant-window-navigator/title/background isn't set.
Restarting AWN usually solves this issue

Sorry.....Please read the fourth sentence in the above post as "Also, i am able to run avant-window-navigator when i type "avant-window-navigator &".

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More:

 Nothing happens when i right click the dock. The dock seems to be more like a place where all the icons of the 'opened' programs are placed. If no program is opened, there is nothing on the dock, which looks like a translucent grey 2D rectangle. When a program is opened, the respective icon is placed on the dock. The icon is of course, animated - it bobs up and down when you run the cursor over it. However, when you click to maximize one of the opened programs, the icon disappears, and a black translucent square seems to be drawn in its place. When you close the program, the dock shortens in length.

Still, i am not able to open the awn-manager.

tjmann

It looks like the version in the openSUSE repositories is obsolete - 0.2.1 has been released with a number of bugfixes.

Could you try to run awn-manager via the terminal again, now that Awn has been started at least once?

Hi Mark

 Thanks for the info. In fact, I found out that my problem is not new, and has been answered partially before by yourself at

 https://answers.launchpad.net/awn/+question/17825

 I tried whatever you said there, and got rid of awn-manager from /usr/local/bin. Now avant-window-navigator is working fine - the dock seems to look really good, with all the reflective icons.

 But now, i wanted awn-manager for setting preferences.

So i tried this: I downloaded awn 0.2.1 from https://launchpad.net/awn/+download
I compiled it, without any problem this time.

Now everything is fine. awn-manager is working without any problems.

 Thanks once again, and sorry for all the trouble.

tjmann

Thanks Mark Lee, that solved my question.