Comment 11 for bug 526197

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Joe VanAndel (joe-vanandel) wrote : Re: [Bug 526197] Re: OS 10.6.2: crash Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display

You can close the bug, but it would be really nice if you could note
this work-around in release notes for users dreampie with MacPorts.
It took quite a while for me to find this fix, and it would be great
if other users of MacPorts could use dreampie.

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Noam Yorav-Raphael <email address hidden> wrote:
> >From what I read in the archlinux forum, it seems to be a problem with a
> MacPorts package which causes this environment variable to get the wrong
> value. This means that it is not a DreamPie bug.
>
> This means that in order to work around the bug, you can add at the
> beginning of dreampielib/gui/__init__.py a line:
>
> os.environ['XDG_DATA_DIRS'] = '/opt/local/share'
>
> Is it ok if I close this bug?
>
> Noam
>
> --
> OS 10.6.2: crash Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/526197
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> Status in DreamPie - The Python shell you've always dreamed about!: Incomplete
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> Bug description:
> I installed dreampie 1.0 on Mac OS X 10.6.2, with  Python 2.6, PyGTK and PyGtkSourceView from MacPorts.
> I'm using X11 2.3.4, as shipped by Apple.
>
> When I try to run dreampie, it reports:
> Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display
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