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I have good news, and bad news

Asked by Jeremy Gove

I recently switched from Gnome 2.22 to KDE 4.13 . In Gnome, I was having the problem described in https://bugs.launchpad.net/awn/+bug/148415 . In KDE, the icons stay fixed, which is great; none of my tasks disappear and switch to the right. However, in KDE I can't add new launchers! Also, avant-window-navigator requires that I keep a few gnome-base packages, which I would prefer not to happen. I'm using Gentoo, by the way. Where is the text configuration file, so that I can add new launchers manually? Are you considering making a KDE/QT4 version of AWN?

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Mark Lee (malept) said : 		#1

> I'm using Gentoo, by the way.
> Where is the text configuration file, so that I can add new launchers manually?

Depends on your USE flags. I believe USE=gnome puts it in GConf, whereas USE=xfce or USE="-gnome -xfce" puts an ini file in ~/.config/awn/awn.ini. Although, you should be able to drag/drop launchers to the dock regardless of file manager...unless Konqueror does something really weird. See also the FAQ entry regarding launchers: http://wiki.awn-project.org/FAQ#How_do_I_add_launchers_to_the_bar.3F

> Are you considering making a KDE/QT4 version of AWN?

Nope. Awn is deeply rooted in GLib/GObject/Gtk+. You're certainly welcome to, though.

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Jeremy Gove (jeremy-gove) said : 		#2

Thanks for your help. I found out that in my case, under Gentoo Linux, my launchers are saved in /home/(myusername)/.config/awn/launchers. They had names like awn_launcher.desktop and awn_launcher-1.desktop . In order for it to recognize a launcher, I needed to enter the AWN preferences>launchers settings and add them there. This caused AWN to close once I finished editing a launcher, but that didn't matter. I just edited the settings manually in the .desktop file after that. I added the icons for my programs in subdirectories of /usr/share/icons . So now I finally have all of my programs as launchers in AWN under KDE 4.

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Jeremy Gove (jeremy-gove) said : 		#3

By the way, dragging and dropping launchers to the dock didn't work for me in KDE or XFCE, though it used to work in Gnome when I had it on my system. I tried to find an awn.ini file on my system using both slocate and the Find function in Dolphin, but found none. My USE flags when I compile AWN are "-debug -doc -gnome -xfce". Perhaps that is part of the problem, but it doesn't matter now.

Now if only I could make AWN run at a reasonable speed on my PIII-600Mhz laptop with 128MB of RAM and 8MB on-board graphics running Gentoo and XFCE4. :-) I think that will never happen, but it's ok, since Fluxbox and Windowmaker are enough for me there.