Comment 10 for bug 161924

Good evening all, I was having the same issue with the icons slowly scrolling onto the screen and have corrected the issue by writing a simple startup script for AWN and adding it to sessions to load the program at boot. The script delays the program from loading for a user specified amount of time. I think the problem stems from a graphic dependency, maybe Compiz, not being fully loaded when the program tries to load at boot...but I'm new to linux and could be way off base. In any case...here's what worked for me...

Create a new document and name it whateveryouwant.sh (I named mine AWN.sh for obvious reasons)
Insert this text into the document without the quotes: "sleep 10s; avant-window-navigator"
***(10s stands for 10 seconds and can be tweaked to meet your systems needs. + or - the value to meet your own requirements. I found 10s on my system to be an ideal setting)***
Save the file and close it.
Right click on the file and select properties and click on the permissions tab.
Click the box to "Allow executing file as program"
Move the file (you may need root permission) to /usr/local/bin
Go to System > Preferences > Sessions
Click on +Add
Enter name the startup session anything you'd like (Avant Window Navigator might be a good one) and click browse and find the script you have placed in /usr/local/bin
Click OK > Close and then reboot.

Hope this helps some of you out! These forums are an invaluable resource and I hope I can give something back in return for all I've learned.