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[BIN ZHANG <zhngbn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ha, starting from the the X-terminal works great! Thanks a lot guys..

Bin

On Dec 15, 2011, at 5:10 AM, Jeffrey Liu wrote:

> Yes X11 comes with the Mac.  The simplest way to start the X server  
> - Try running an xterm.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 15, 2011, at 8:08 AM, Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx 
> > wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:20 AM, BIN ZHANG <zhngbn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I am trying to install zim wiki on Mac 10.5.8, and so far not being  
> > successful.
> >
> > I installed pygtk through fink, and with that the zim installed  
> > fine. However, when I try zim on the terminal, nothing happens, no  
> > message, no gui...
> > While trying 'zim -D', I got the following message:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > DHCP-21-187:~ bingo$ /sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/ 
> > __init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display
> >   warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
> > /sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zim/gui/pageview.py:2791:  
> > GtkWarning: gdk_cursor_new_for_display: assertion `GDK_IS_DISPLAY  
> > (display)' failed
> >   CURSOR_TEXT = gtk.gdk.Cursor(gtk.gdk.XTERM) #: the  
> > C{gtk.gdk.Cursor} for normal text
> > ERROR: Error in child main:
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zim/daemon.py", line 550,  
> > in spawn
> >     self._main()
> >   File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zim/daemon.py", line 564,  
> > in _main
> >     mod = __import__(modname)
> >   File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zim/gui/__init__.py", line  
> > 34, in <module>
> >     from zim.gui.pageview import PageView
> >   File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zim/gui/pageview.py", line  
> > 2791, in <module>
> >     CURSOR_TEXT = gtk.gdk.Cursor(gtk.gdk.XTERM) #: the  
> > C{gtk.gdk.Cursor} for normal text
> > RuntimeError: could not create GdkCursor object
> > DEBUG: Child exited 20665 (u'zim.gui.GtkInterface', u'file:///Users/bingo/Documents/zimwiki')
> > INFO: Last instance quit - exiting daemon
> > INFO: Stopped UnixSocketDaemon
> >
> > It looks like Gtk can not find the display.
> >
> > On linux I would say this probably means that either you don't have  
> > X running, or your terminal doesn't have the environment variables  
> > set for your X session.
> >
> > However I have no idea how this is supposed to work on Mac. From  
> > what I heard I believe you have an X window running on top of the  
> > Mac interface, but not sure how that works.
> >
> > Maybe some other Mac user can help ?  (Do we have any here ?)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jaap
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