Running meld (dbus error: autolaunch requested but X11 support not compiled)

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Jan 20, 2011, at 01:58, iulian dragos wrote:

> Then I tried to run meld, and here's the output:
> 
> $ meld
> 
> (process:78120): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
> 	Using the fallback 'C' locale.
> Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display "/tmp/launch-hVOIj6/org.x:0".
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/opt/local/bin/meld", line 123, in <module>
>    main()
>  File "/opt/local/bin/meld", line 115, in main
>    app = meld.meldapp.MeldApp()
>  File "/opt/local/lib/meld/meld/meldapp.py", line 136, in __init__
>    self.prefs = preferences.MeldPreferences()
>  File "/opt/local/lib/meld/meld/preferences.py", line 289, in __init__
>    super(MeldPreferences, self).__init__("/apps/meld", self.defaults)
>  File "/opt/local/lib/meld/meld/util/prefs.py", line 92, in __init__
>    self._gconf.add_dir(rootkey, gconf.CLIENT_PRELOAD_NONE)
> glib.GError: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible
> causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you
> have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See
> http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1:
> Failed to get connection to session: Command line `dbus-launch
> --autolaunch=8b3f1f14a2f770b7442e2c414d3803b3 --binary-syntax
> --close-stderr' exited with non-zero exit status 1: Autolaunch
> requested, but X11 support not compiled in.\nCannot continue.\n)
> 
> I didn't find any information about X11 support in dbus on the net (at
> least, nothing useful).

dbus doesn't really have anything to do with X11.

> Can anyone help me? Even just to say that they
> could successfully install and run meld (I'd know at least that my
> quest is possible).

As mentioned, just load the LaunchAgent.  Don't use sudo or you'll be loading it for root (not your user).