Re: [gtk-osx-users] GLib-GIO-Error "No GSettings schemas" with GtkFileChooserDialog

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Feb 3, 2013, at 3:04 AM, Thomas Karpiniec <tk 1 21jiggawatts net> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I started using GTK+3 on OSX very recently and I'm wondering if anybody
> could help me out with GtkFileChooserDialog.
> 
> I'm trying to use the "typical usage" example in the docs for an Open
> dialog. It crashes on the call to gtk_file_chooser_dialog_new() with
> this error and I'm not sure why:
> 
> GLib-GIO-ERROR **: No GSettings schemas are installed on the system
> 
> Scouring the web, the only useful suggestion I've found is running
> "glib-compile-schemas ~/gtk/inst/share/glib-2.0/schemas". The timestamp
> on "gschemas.compiled" changes but it otherwise makes no difference.
> 
> This is voodoo to me... I don't really know what's going on. :) However
> if I have a simple installation problem then I would be satisfied to
> just fix it for now.
> 
> Does anyone have any pointers?
> 

You're not running in a jhbuild shell, so your environment isn't set up for gtk to find its dependencies.

Regards,
John Ralls