Kyle,

Thanks for your help, that fixed it.  The only thing that you might want to
try is that i think I used the color eyedropper tool and click on the screen
that lead to this error.  Sorry, I did not suggest this earlier.

Anthony

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Kyle L. Huff <email address hidden>wrote:

> 'gconf backend' just means, that AWN is using gconf to store the
> settings, which, it looks like it is, as there are values in the
> %gconf.xml file.
>
> Which, I think I have found the problem. In the %gconf.xml file there is
> value that is messed up somehow, so the fix for you is easy.. the hard
> part is to find out how this incorrect value ended up in the config at
> all..
>
> The line that says "<stringvalue><GdkColor at
> 0x94664d0>|0.5</stringvalue>" is bad.. to fix it, perform these steps;
>
> Press ALT+F2 to open the Run Dialog, and type 'gconf-editor' and press
> enter.
> In the gconf-editor, navigate to /apps/awn-applet-bandwidth-monitor/ and in
> there should be key 'background_color', double click on it and change it to
> "#000000000000|0.5", then click OK, and you can close gconf-editor.
>
> After that, it should load normally.. I will don't know how or why that
> value got set to what it is now, but I will do some testing and try to
> re-produce it..
>
> --
> ValueError in Bandwidth Monitor: unable to parse colour specification
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/534061
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>
> Status in Awn Extras: New
>
> 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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