Mh,
Got tired of gnome-panel and decided to give avant-window-navigator a go. Some problems occurred after installation, as desktop just froze right after the desktop background was loaded.
Seems that it was pulseaudio having issues, needed to go to tty and issue kill -s KILL pulseaudiopid before the desktop woke up again. Did quite much work trying to get it work, but seems that following tweaks solved the problem.
Settings – Preferences – Sound : change all definitions from autodetect to ALSA, make sure that on “sounds” tab the Enable software sound mixing (ESD) is selected.
Open Users and Groups from Settings – Administration and check that your username is in the pulse, pulse-access and pulse-rt groups.
Also, have a look at asoundconf tool and it’s commands.
I’ll post some quick installation quide to avant-window-navigator and it’s extras in awhile.
Edit: Still having small issues with login/startup, need to see how my setup works to determine if I’ve corrected the problem. Hold on..
