Comment 6 for bug 133901

I had the same problem but it came up a different way. I installed AWN from apt-get before it was moved to the new repo. I was then trying to do some of the cool patches and found out that I had to install the program from source, so I did this but I did it without correctly removing all files that had previously been installed. My guess is that the two installs had two different preferences which were conflicting with one another.

To fix it I first did make uninstall from the source location.
I then redid "apt-get remove" of both version of AWN
Searched for all AWN files using Ubuntu search for "Avant"
Manually deleted all files (about 15) and one directory from terminal as su
Reinstalled program

This made it work and actually before I guess I wasn't up to date because the new AWN look it very eye appealing.