preferences does not show up

[ZypherXII]

my avant-preferences command seems to be missing, when i right click on the AWN and click preferences nothing happens. And when typing in avant-preferences in terminal i get bash: avant-preferences: command not found.

[Miika-Petteri Matikainen (mpmatikainen)]

There is no more awn-preferences. The new command is awn-manager. Run Awn from terminal, try to open preferences by right-clicking and paste here the output from the terminal. Try also running awn-manager by using that command in the terminal.

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

I can personally repeat this but have seen a few similar reports:

From https://answers.launchpad.net/awn/+question/11935

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/awn-manager", line 199, in <module>
    awnmanager = AwnManager()
  File "/usr/local/bin/awn-manager", line 97, in __init__
    self.launchManager = awnLauncher(self.wTree, self.AWN_CONFIG_DIR)
  File "/usr/local/share/avant-window-navigator/awn-manager/awnLauncher.py", line 66, in __init__
    self.make_model()
  File "/usr/local/share/avant-window-navigator/awn-manager/awnLauncher.py", line 124, in make_model
    self.refresh_tree(uris)
  File "/usr/local/share/avant-window-navigator/awn-manager/awnLauncher.py", line 134, in refresh_tree
    self.model.set_value (row, 0, self.make_icon (i))
  File "/usr/local/share/avant-window-navigator/awn-manager/awnLauncher.py", line 168, in make_icon
    if "/" in name:
TypeError: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable

From http://www.planetblur.org/hosted/awnforum/index.php?shard=forum&action=g_reply&ID=625&page=1&isLive=true

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./awnManager.py", line 194, in <module>
awnmanager = AwnManager()
File "./awnManager.py", line 92, in __init__
self.launchManager = awnLauncher(self.wTree, self.AWN_CONFIG_DIR)
File "/home/stephen/awn-extras/awn-manager/awnLauncher.py", line 65, in __init__
self.make_model()
File "/home/stephen/awn-extras/awn-manager/awnLauncher.py", line 123, in make_model
self.refresh_tree(uris)
File "/home/stephen/awn-extras/awn-manager/awnLauncher.py", line 133, in refresh_tree
self.model.set_value (row, 0, self.make_icon (i))
File "/home/stephen/awn-extras/awn-manager/awnLauncher.py", line 167, in make_icon
if "/" in name:
TypeError: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable

[Ryan Rushton (ryancr)]

Yes there seems to be definitely something wrong with the make_icon code, although I can not reproduce here, I'll see if I can fix it this evening.

[HunkyBill (hunkybill)]

HI,

I am using Ubuntu 7.04, and I get the same problem. I had the awn-manager working once, and now it refuses to run. I removed all traces of the program that I could find, and did a complete rebuild+install, with the same result.

[Rodney (rod-dowdall)]

I think this has to do with an incomplete launcher in ~/.config/awn/launchers. I found that this problem occurred after I created a launcher that had no icon specified. Removing the offending launcher.desktop file allowed me to open the preferences again.

[Jmadero (jmadero)]

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.

[ubunturox (ubunturox-kk)]

I had the same problem too ... first time preferences show up and then it doesnt. I get the same error on the console. Remove the offending launcher solved the problem. Maybe it can be fixed to have a default icon in case the user doesnt select icon. So it awn-manager crash everytime

thanks,
kalyan

[Ryan Rushton (ryancr)]

This should be fixed as of bzr rev77

[pixeltarian (pixeltarian-gmail)]

1. sudo synaptic
2. search for avant (avant-window-navigator should show up)
3. right click and go to "mark recommended for installation"
4. click "awn-manager"
5. apply.

this worked for me.

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Thanks for the feedback. Mark as commited. Please reopen if it's not resolve.