[Bug 297780] [NEW] awn doesn't show any error when launch with compiz off

[mnemo]

Public bug reported:

I was following the instructions here:
http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/11/11/installing-and-setting-up-avant-window-navigator/

...and it didn't work. The problem was that I had compiz turn off.

Since I was launching awn from the GNOME accessories menu I did not
receive any error message. This bug is about the poor UX and the
suggestion is that awn shows a GUI based error dialog instead.

After it didn't work launching it as a GUI app I assumed that it had
SIGSEGV'ed so I started a terminal but from there the problem was
obvious because awn prints the following to the terminal:

Error: Screen isn't composited. Please run compiz (-fusion) or another
compositing manager.

And yes I have compiz turned off. But awn still needs to be better at
communicating that to the user (even if awn is started from the
accessories menu).

** Affects: avant-window-navigator (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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awn doesn't show any error when launch with compiz off
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