Avant Window Manager- Possible without a Desktop Manager?

geekrock73 · n00b Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Posts: 19

Is it possible to run Avant Window Manager without a Desktop Manager? I don't want to use a Desktop Manager, butI like AWM and would like to use it for a dock. Is this possible?

96140 · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 1324

The Unknown · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:50 am Post subject:

Actually, I was looking into this last week and there is a new version that was released. We don't have it in the main tree tho,
but it's supposed to have support for "gnome|xfce|desktop agnostic" so essentually it should be able to run on anything.
All tho it's crazy dependency chain is still built with gtk, etc.. What I think they've done is implemented their own launcher editor
and got rid of gnome-panel.
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geekrock73 · n00b Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Posts: 19

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The Unknown · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:31 pm Post subject:

@nightmorph
Thanks for links, good stuff :wink:

I'm an xfce user and wanted to wait for this ebuild before dabbling with this prog. Unfortunatly I have not
convinced myself to use overlays yet. Also I noticed the vala ebuild, that must be in this overlay as well?

@geekrock73
Looking at the ebuild, even if you don't have {gconf|gnome|xfce|vala} as use flags it will still pull in

dev-util/gtk-doc
x11-libs/gtk+
x11-libs/libwnck
>=dev-libs/glib-2.15.0
dev-python/pyxdg

and all their dependencies.
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geekrock73 · n00b Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Posts: 19

If I intsall AWN with all it's dependencies that I won't use, what is the downside? Does it just take up more hard drive space or does it slow down my system by using more resources?

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geekrock73 · n00b Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Posts: 19

Ok, I hope I'm not being annoying, I'm still new and learning.Lets say I installed AWM out of the portage tree with gnome dependencies. Then I ran it without any desktop managers. Would it run all the gnome code just as if I was running the gnome desktop, defeating the purpose me not using gnome?

96140 · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 1324

Yes, because the version in Portage depends on running gnome-panel, gnome-desktop, and a whole slew of other applications. That's what I've been saying -- those are runtime dependencies. If you want to run the AWN in Portage, just accept that you'll be running most of Gnome at the same time. Whether or not you've chosen to emerge gnome explicitly as a desktop environment is irrelevant. You'll still be running Gnome applications, because AWN needs those running.

geekrock73 · n00b Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Posts: 19

I ran the current version that is in portage. It makes my system a bit laggy. But I don't understand why because my CPU is only at 45% when it maxes out. It can't be memory because I have a gig of ram, so where could the bottle neck be?