Comment 14 for bug 534061

I followed the direct instructions below to update AWN bandwidth monitor.

Your welcome and thank you for making the process painless for me still
being a newbie.

Anthony

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Kyle L. Huff <email address hidden>wrote:

> Great, thank you!
>
> If you want to apply the patch, instructions are below; or you can wait
> until it comes through the ppa.
>
> Directions to patch:
>
> cd /tmp
> wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40913628/awn-bwm_color_setting_fix.diff
> sudo patch -i /tmp/awn-bwm_color_setting_fix.diff
> /usr/share/avant-window-navigator/applets/bandwidth-monitor/bwmprefs.py
>
> Restart awn, and the color dropper should not cause an invalid/non
> parse-able value to be written to the configuration back-end anymore.
>
> Thanks very much for submitting this bug and providing the needed
> information to correct it. I very much appreciate your efforts!
>
> Kyle Huff
>
> --
> ValueError in Bandwidth Monitor: unable to parse colour specification
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/534061
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>
> Status in Awn Extras: Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> Ubuntu 8.10 - Intrepid Ibex
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [Got the install information from 9
> http://www.webupd8.org/2009/10/avant-window-navigator-awn-04-available.html
> )]
>
> sudo bash -c "echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ppa/ubuntuubuntu_version main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
> sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys BF810CD5
>
> and
>
> sudo apt-get install python-awn-trunk python-awn-extras-trunk
> awn-applets-python-extras-trunk awn-applets-c-extras-trunk
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> GNOME Desktop: ver: 2.24.1; build date: 10/24/2008
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Video card: Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]; driver: radeon
> (the one that comes with Ubuntu default install)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/awn/extras/awnlib.py", line 1462,
> in init_start
> applet_class(applet)
> File
> "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/applets/bandwidth-monitor/awn-bwm.py",
> line 297, in __init__
> self.prefs.setup()
> File
> "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/applets/bandwidth-monitor/bwmprefs.py",
> line 65, in setup
> bgColorbutton.set_color(gtk.gdk.color_parse(bgColor))
> ValueError: unable to parse colour specification
>
>
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--
Anthony
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