Public bug reported: I was following the instructions here: http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/11/11/installing-and-setting-up-avant-window-navigator/
...and it didn't work. The problem was that I had compiz turn off. Since I was launching awn from the GNOME accessories menu I did not receive any error message. This bug is about the poor UX and the suggestion is that awn shows a GUI based error dialog instead. After it didn't work launching it as a GUI app I assumed that it had SIGSEGV'ed so I started a terminal but from there the problem was obvious because awn prints the following to the terminal: Error: Screen isn't composited. Please run compiz (-fusion) or another compositing manager. And yes I have compiz turned off. But awn still needs to be better at communicating that to the user (even if awn is started from the accessories menu). ** Affects: avant-window-navigator (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- awn doesn't show any error when launch with compiz off https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297780 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs