applets not loaded on autostart

Could you paste the output of running "avant-window-navigator" manually in a terminal? Hopefully it will give us more insight to why this is happening.

On 08/19/2010 03:53 PM, Alexander Lancey wrote:
> Could you paste the output of running "avant-window-navigator" manually
> in a terminal? Hopefully it will give us more insight to why this is
> happening.
>
> ** Changed in: avant-window-navigator (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
alex@acerbook:~$ killall avant-window-navigator
alex@acerbook:~$ avant-window-navigator
Screen is composited
** (avant-window-navigator:2243): DEBUG: Updating gtk theme colours
** (avant-window-navigator:2243): DEBUG: Updating dialog colours
** (avant-window-navigator:2243): DEBUG: Spawned awn-applet[2244] for
"quick-prefs.desktop", UID: 1, XID: 20971567
** (avant-window-navigator:2243): DEBUG: Spawned awn-applet[2246] for
"taskmanager.desktop", UID: 3, XID: 20971568
** (avant-window-navigator:2243): DEBUG: Spawned awn-applet[2247] for
"garbage.desktop", UID: 1281406319, XID: 20971569

(awn-applet:2246): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_dir_read_name: assertion `dir !=
NULL' failed

(awn-applet:2246): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_dir_close: assertion `dir !=
NULL' failed

It may be relative to a fix commited uptream on rev 718. I'll prepare an update with this fix.

This bug was fixed in the package avant-window-navigator - 0.4.0-2ubuntu1

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avant-window-navigator (0.4.0-2ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * Sync with Debian.
  * Cherry-pick some fixes from upstream:
   - 901-grouping-and-OOo.patch: Fix grouping and window matching with OOo
     (r689,690,691,692,693)
   - 902-fix-nautilus-launcher.patch: Fix Nautilus launcher (r694, LP: #487105)
   - 903-fix-setlocale.patch: Fix settings locale in awn-settings
     (r695, LP: #563449)
   - 904-fix-behavior-with-compiz.patch: Fix behavior with compiz
     (r696,697,698)
   - 905-timeout-OOo.patch: Adjust timeout for OOo windows matching (r699)
   - 906-untranslated-strings-1.patch & 907-untranslated-strings-2.patch:
     Translated missing strings. (r700,708, LP: #586670)
   - 908-equal-in-schemas.patch: Remove == from schemas files
     (r710, LP: #590842)
   - 909-viewport-fix.patch: Fix for viewports where the active windows is
     not within the viewport (r712)
   - 910-add-remove-launcher.patch: Add ability to remove a launcher on right
     click. (r713, LP: #565412)
   - 911-freedesktop-dbus-name.patch: Don't use freedesktop for d-bus
     dockmanager name (r717)
   - 912-startup-invisible.patch: Fix invisible dock on startup
     (r718, LP: #620629)
   - 913-fix-unfocusing-dialog.patch: Fix unfocusing dialog (r725)
   - 914-fix-compatibility-0.9-vala.patch: Fix compatibility with vala 0.9.X
   - 920-translation-update.patch: Translation update (2010-08-23)

avant-window-navigator (0.4.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Set priority to medium to fix RC bug.
  * debian/control:
   - Add Conlicts/Replaces between libawn0-dbg and libawn1-dbg.
     (Closes: #586031)
  * debian/NEWS
   - Mention some incompatible changes with previous version.

avant-window-navigator (0.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
   - Fix icons placed outside the panel. Closes: #471661
   - Add an option to go under the panel. Closes: #474228
   - Fix autohide behavior. LP: #130235
   - Allow only 1 instance of Awn. LP: #258675
   - Ensure the autostart exist before trying to delete it. LP: #334454
   - Fix position with multiple screen. LP: #248769
   - Fix crash when event is NULL. LP: #550541
   - Fix crash in awn-setting when adding applet. LP: #557778
  * debian/patches:
   - 10_correct_exception.patch: Dropped, problem fixed in the new version.
   - 00-wm-behavior.patch and 01-tasks-have-arrow.patch: Merged upstream.
   - 02-ftbfs-python-2.6.patch: Refresh.
   - 03-python-import.patch: Refresh.
   - 01-bad-pointer-init.patch: From upstream, bad unitialized pointer.
  * Bump libawn SONAME
  * debian/control:
   - Add minimum requirement for libwnck-dev libgtk2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev and
     valac.
   - Drop build-depends on libgnome2-dev, libgnome-desktop-dev, libglade2-dev.
   - Bump build-depends for debhelper to (>= 7.0.50~) for overrides.
   - Build-depends on libgtop2-dev.
   - Replace build-depends on python-gnome2-dev by python-gtk2-dev (>= 2.12).
   - Build-depends on gconf2, libdesktop-agnostic-dev, libdesktop-agnostic-bin,
     python-desktop-agnostic, vala-desktop-agnostic for desktop-agnostic
     support.
   - Demote the compo...