Hi,

I installed AWN from the package manager in LinuxMint 8 Helena and it seems to have successfully installed. However, when I load it, there was no default theme that came with it or anything - it was just blank - no wallpapers, no themes..... (pls see attached image).
Then I got down to installing the Mac4Lin theme, 'cos my main aim is to get the dock. I followed the instructions at http://ubuntuguide.net/install-mac-o...ntu-9-10karmic
Installation completed successfully and the visual look resembles that of a mac in terms of scroll bars and buttons, etc., but there is still no dock and no wallpaper. I even go to AWN and there is nothing in the Themes.

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From the AWN theme manager, did you click "Add" and select the file Mac4Lin_AWN_v1.0.tgz as the guide said?

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Thanks Reed9. did as you said and now I see Mac4Lin_AWN_v1.0RCS in the themes, but my desktop still does not show the dock or the appropriate wallpaper associated with the theme.

Hmm, well, AWN wouldn't set the wallpaper. You would need to go through GNOME's normal wallpaper thing for that, I assume.

You're saying when you start AWN, it doesn't launch?

Try starting it from the terminal and post any error message. Should just be
to start.

immediately after my last post, I rebooted the system to see if it would help but now I have an even bigger problem. after the system rebooted and I reached the desktop, the panel at the bottom of the screen is missing and there's no way I can even launch any programs or even the terminal.
AWN could load properly without any problem, but it was the dock that wasn't loading.

Type ALT+F2 to open a run dialogue. From that you can re-launch the panel or a terminal.

The panel should be called gnome-panel and the terminal, gnome-terminal.

ALT+F2 is not doing anything

Hmm, odd. Alright, try CTRL+ALT+F1. This should drop you to a console login.

There is probably a fancy way using gconf to change your settings, but I'm not familiar enough with GNOME to tell you how. The simple method is to delete the GNOME config files and restart the session. This should revert everything back to the defaults.

Restart the session

I managed to get to the terminal by right-clicking on th desktop and selecting "Open in Terminal" and then did avant-window-navigator
and this is the result:

Ok, I was looking through the guide you said you used, and it has you remove the gnome-panel.

So from the terminal, type
Go to /desktop/gnome/session again, and you should be able to re-enable the panel. For now, I would set the panel to just be at the top, and put a menu applet on there, so you have easy access to your programs while you work on getting AWN going.

The error is because you need window compositing for AWN to work properly. If you go to appearance preferences, there is a Visual Effects tab where you can turn on Compiz. You do need a video card capable of hardware acceleration, though, and have it set up correctly. Most intel cards will have this working out of the box, some older ATI cards as well. For newer ATI cards and Nvidia cards, you need their proprietary drivers installed.

I managed to reach the configuration editor as you said and I can see the panel is already there (pls see image). How do I get it to display?

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From the terminal, type
Does it show back up?

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thanks so much. it's back

i managed to get the dock to display. went to Control Center >> Desktop Configuration Tools >> Gnome Compositing and i enabled Gnome Compositing there.

I would assume the panel will disappear again when you reboot. It seems to have somehow been removed the wherever GNOME normally autostarts it from. I don't think it uses the normal autostart thing, but perhaps. You can add it there at the least.