Avant awn-manager

[EMoShunz]

I have Avant Window Navigator installed. It starts up fine (using compiz-fusion on kubuntu gutsy). When I right-click > Preferences nothing happens. Try running AVN Manager and the icon bounces on my cursor for a while, but nothing. When I run $ awn-manager from konsole I get this:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/awn-manager", line 40, in <module>
import gnomedesktop
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0/gnomedesktop/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
from _gnomedesktop import *
ImportError: could not import gnomevfs

I assume the issue is I am not running gnome (boooo) but, how do I rectify that? gnomevfs in adept yeilds a number of libs that all seem to be related to a file system. of those some are already installed.
Any suggestions?

[lmilano]

Re: Avant awn-manager

It looks like a python wrapper to the gnome libs is missing. There are a bunch of python-gnome2 packages. Have you tried those ? (I have the main one, python-gnome2, and python-gnomecanvas installed, but I haven't tried this avant awn-manager)

Good luck!

[EMoShunz]

Re: Avant awn-manager

ok, checked those packages, was only missing 1. here is the error i get now:
$ awn-manager
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/awn-manager", line 199, in <module>
awnmanager = AwnManager()
File "/usr/bin/awn-manager", line 94, in __init__
self.appletManager = awnApplet(self.wTree)
File "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/awn-manager/awnApplet.py", line 75, in __init__
self.make_model()
File "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/awn-manager/awnApplet.py", line 351, in make_model
self.refresh_tree (applets)
File "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/awn-manager/awnApplet.py", line 415, in refresh_tree
icon, text = self.make_row(path)
File "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/awn-manager/awnApplet.py", line 360, in make_row
return self.make_icon (item.get_string(gnomedesktop.KEY_ICON)), text
File "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/awn-manager/awnApplet.py", line 380, in make_icon
icon = gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file_at_size (name, 32, 32)
gobject.GError: Unrecognized image file format

[lmilano]

Re: Avant awn-manager

arrgg, this seems like a legitimate run time error (an attempt to generate an icon of an unhandled format). Not sure where to go from here, sorry!

(BTW, these dependencies you manually added should be handled by apt, it looks like the packaging is broken for this app)

[Snowhog]

Re: Avant awn-manager

I'm not running Gutsy, so I've no direct experience with it. What version of AWN are you running? There is a version (.deb package) for Gutsy (32-bit) on www.getdeb.net

[EMoShunz]

Re: Avant awn-manager

will that deb run on the 64 bit version?
see...i have avant working, it's just the settings/manager that don't. so as long as i use the default settings, no problem. just means (at least it seems) i can't add programs to the dock, just live apps go there.