[Bug 524360] [NEW] Cannot remove all traces of avant-window-navigator

[Vicente Iborra]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: avant-window-navigator

I'm running Linux Mint - Helena (Ubuntu 9.10), I had a look at the Linux
Mint web site, but didn't see a way to register a bug report there, so I
thought I'd do so here.  Please let me know if I should be doing this
somewhere else.

I installed Avant Window Navigator through the "Software Manager" and
set it to automatically start on login.  I played for a little while
with it, but decided that it wasn't for me.  I've tried removing it
using the following.

1.  I went to uninstall it through the "Software Manager" but with no
effect (it still appeared at the bottom of the screen).

2. I then used "Synaptic Manager" to see if there were any "*awn*" or
"*avant*" packages still installed, there were some, which I completely
removed, with no change.

3. I then performed a "find / -name "*awn*" -name "*avant*" -print" to
find any related files to remove manually, some were found, which I
removed, with no change.

4. I then hand edited the /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree.xml
(which I know I shouldn't, but couldn't think of anything else), and
removed all the entries referring to awn and avant, with no change.

Throughout all these changes, I've tried re-login in, and restarting the
machine, but awn still shows at the bottom of the screen.

The only thing that has any effect, is if I turn off the Visual
Effects.... of course AWN requires this, so I guess no great mystery
that it doesn't run when these are turned off.

I've tried googling for this problem, others have had similar problem
but they seem to have resolved through one of the above steps.  It seems
quite a mystery how it could run, If I've removed any relevant
files..... Could something (compiz, gnome, ?) be caching the executables
somewhere?

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

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