Icons slide in is very slow and not so smooth

[flynn]

After auto start the icons slide in is very slow and not so smooth.
Start AWN manually the icons appears jerky too. It cause by the simultaneous animations from the bar and icons.

It make sense to optimize the timeming of the bar and icons. First the bar animation then the icons appears.

Always is extremely slow when opening apps

[kaos13 (vicavi)]

I have the same Problem, the bar is in the middle of the screen and the icons slide in from the left very slowly

[boast (magshell)]

Same here. It is annoying.

[Eric (eric-edelman-deactivatedaccount)]

I agree, the effect is unnecessary and should be removed (if it's even by design). There is no reason the icons shouldn't just start in the center where they belong.

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Thanks for the report. I can't reproduce the problem.
Can you test with the 0.2.1 version or the last trunk revision ?
What animation do you set ?

[flynn (flynn)]

I test it with the version 0.2.1-bzr20071115 (gutsy) and the latest
stable version 0.2.0 too.
Both I have the same issue with the slow slide in animation from left to
right, when autostart avant-window-navigator
from /system/preferences/sessions.

Did you make an autostart session to reproduce this problem? Manually
the animation start normally from the center.

In preferences i can't set any animation type or autostart option.

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Ok, I know what you mean. It's because you have many launchers and AWN is a bit slow to display and animate all of them.
In awn-manager, you can set "Icon Effects" to "Custom" and set "None" to "Opening". It will be better.

[Eric (eric-edelman-deactivatedaccount)]

Unfortunately, setting the opening animation to "None" hasn't solved the problem.

Two additional things:
- Like Gnubuntu, I'm also autostarting AWN. When started manually there's no problem.
- I have only three launchers in my bar, so I don't think the number of launchers has any influence on the problem.

[flynn (flynn)]

I have 5 applets in my bar. Even less than 5 it's slow. The scroll animation from left to right need about 5 secs to finish.
I turn the "Icon Effects" to "None" the start animation is still slow but a bit smoother. But turn the "Icons Effects" off is not the solution.
I like the Icons Effects and it's a nice eyecandy.

Like Eric, I think "There is no reason the icons shouldn't just start in the center where they belong."

[boast (magshell)]

Why is it like this anyway? No other dock has some fancy (slow) opening animation.

[mikespug (michael-spugnardi)]

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.

[Mark Lee (malept)]

See also: http://wiki.awn-project.org/index.php?title=FAQ#How_Can_I_make_AWN_run_at_start_up.3F

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

This'll be fixed with single-window awn (0.2.6). Thanks for the report.

[Götz Christ (g-christ)]

I have the same problem, especially when I switch to Metacity and then to Compiz back (to play a game or some thing like that, because of the Redirect Direct Rendering issue). Or when I change the resolution, and when I login.

Is it now delayed to 0.4?

https://launchpad.net/awn/+milestone/0.4

When will 0.4 be released?

P.D. I'm using AWN 0.3.1 from the PPA repo for Gutsy.

[Mark Lee (malept)]

0.2.6 was renamed to 0.4 when we reworked the roadmap. (it was kind of silly to name a major release with a micro version number)

There is no timeline for any of our releases, as they are feature-based (and no one is being paid to work on Awn, sadly).