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It seems to me that the applying patches entry isn't needed any more (I added it to the old wiki), since applets are now easier to install for testers. --Andrewsomething 05:28, 2 October 2007 (PDT)



Added: "I installed AWN, but I can't run awn-manager."

I keep seeing people running into this problem on the Ubuntu Forums. For some reason the try running awn-manager before ever running AWN, which will not work.... --Andrewsomething 12:12, 26 October 2007 (PDT)

I uploaded a screen shot of how to add awn to the gnome session this morning. When I logged in this afternoon to actually include the image in the FAQ I found it had already been done.

Thanks for doing that Malept! --Rharrison 13:27, 3 December 2007 (PST)

On the subject of AWN in Openbox, I've followed the instructions in the FAQ but not seeing the desired effect. I'm running Openbox 3.4.7-pre2 and AWN 0.3.1. Various states of the auto-hide and hide-under-maximized settings in AWN don't seem to affect it. I've also tried variants of the rc.xml entry such as class="avant-window-navigator" and type="dock", to no avail. Any ideas? --Ian 11 June 2008

[edit] Added tip for repositioning bar

I don't know if this is absolutely unsupported/unstable, but I learned it playing around with gconf-editor and I thought it could be useful for someone else. (Edited section is "How do I reposition AWN bar?") If inappropriate, please simply revert :)

[edit] About "How do I permanently remove GNOME Panel from my GNOME session?"

I think that is a best idea change "/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/panel" key, replacing "gnome-panel" and establishing "awn". I'm using in this way and have not problem. daniel.banobre.dopico at google mail.

In Ubuntu 11.04 one can just select a "User defined" gnome session from the GDM logon screen.

[edit] How do I set up GNOME session to start Awn instead of GNOME Panel?

create a file "/usr/share/xsession/avant.desktop" 

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Avant
Comment=This session logs you into GNOME
Exec=gnome-session
TryExec=gnome-session
Icon=
Type=Application
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-session-2.0
X-GNOME-Provides=PANEL

Create another file "/usr/share/gconf/avant.mandatory.path" 

xml:readonly:/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/avant.gconf.xml.mandatory

Make a directory "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/avant.gconf.xml.mandatory"

Create a file "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/avant.gconf.xml.mandatory/%gconf-tree.xml" 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
        <dir name="desktop">
               <dir name="gnome">
                        <dir name="session">
                               <dir name="required_components">
                                        <entry name="panel" mtime="1283371042" type="string">
                                               <stringvalue>avant-window-navigator</stringvalue>
                                        </entry>
                                </dir>
                        </dir>
                </dir>
        </dir>
</gconf>

Now just select Avant as your session.

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