Re: Error when opening local html file

Rodrigo Arias <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:49:00 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.dillo.devel
Message-ID <alT63GSUgY-NoQKH@pad>
Hi,

On Sun, Jul 12, 2026 at 09:01:04PM -0400, Nikolas Nyby wrote:
>Hello,
>I couldn't find a bug log for this already, or maybe I am doing
>something wrong.
>
>On current git master, I add this to the address bar:
>  file:///home/nik/Documents/margin-test.html
>
>The file fails to load. Also, when using the menu:
>File -> Open File... dialog, which inserts this into the address bar:
>  file:/home/nik/Documents/margin-test.html
>
>and displays the error:
>
>  ERROR: can't start dpid daemon (URL scheme = 'file')!

Have you installed dillo in its prefix (make install)? This is often a 
symptom that you are running it directly from the build directory and is 
not able to find the plugins.

Otherwise, please provide more details to reproduce this and the full 
execution log.

Best,
Rodrigo.
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