Re: Installation problem Gtk2

["Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

W.Th. Weide said:
> On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 01:34, muppet wrote:
>> On Dec 11, 2004, at 5:09 PM, Wim Weide wrote:
>>
>> > Is there a downloadable distribution that can be seen as a good
>> > starting
>> > point for getting Gtk2-perl to a good end.
>>
>> i personally use gtk2-perl on RedHat 8.0 (yes, currently :-/), FC1,
>> FC2, FC3, and Mac OS 10.3.6 with Fink.  just a few months ago i had it
>> running on vanilla win2k.  several others on the list and development
>> team use various versions of debian.  i also run gtk2-perl against
>> gnome cvs.
>>
> i installed debian and it installs OK.
> But, sometimes when i run the install program it fails.
> when i remove the -init part there is no problem.
> Could this be a serious issue?

-init calls all of the display initialization code (as well as a few other
things.) removing it would probably get rid of the display failures, but i
would expect to see other things go wrong afterwards.

> Wim.
>
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> Message: GTK-WARNING cannot open display at /usr/lib/perl5/Gtk2.pm line
> 95

possible causes are bad values in the DISPLAY env variable. in sufficent
permissions to access the display (not file permessions, but xhost.) bugs in
the gtk+ family. whatever the cause it's not likely a problem with the perl
bindings.

-rm