AutoDMC's PICAYUNE INTELLIGENCE » WTF http://blog.autodmc.org Thoughts of small town life in Minnesota. Circulation 47. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:54:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 AWN and Gentoo http://blog.autodmc.org/stuff-and-nonsense/awn-and-gentoo/ http://blog.autodmc.org/stuff-and-nonsense/awn-and-gentoo/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:31:14 +0000 Shawn Boles http://blog.autodmc.org/?p=274 Having just reinstalled Gentoo as my Linux-Of-Choice (I’m dual-booting Windows for gaming), I keep running into various painful snags of the WTF persuasion.

One of them is AWN, the Avant Window Navigator.  It’s a small dock I use to replace the bottom bar of the Gnome desktop for applications;  I find the icon-centric display to be more useful than the wordy buttons of yore.

On Ubuntu, AWN automatically detects my NVidia Xinerama configuration and sets itself in the center of the left hand monitor, as I want.

On Gentoo… not so much.  It plonks itself right in the middle of the dual monitor, becoming quite annoying.

Per the FAQ entry here:  http://wiki.awn-project.org/FAQ#How_do_I_reposition_AWN.3F  I was able edit gconf key /apps/avant-window-navigator/bar/bar_pos.  Set to “.15″ it’s at least mostly set correctly.  It’s not perfect, but it’ll do until I figure out how to make it work correctly.

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