Re: (gnome gtk) behavior when opening the display fails

Andy Wingo <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:16:47 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.guile.gtk
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri 29 Jan 2010 02:05, gregory benison <[email protected]> writes:

> Current behavior:
>
> $ DISPLAY=foo guile-gnome-2
> guile> (use-modules (gnome gtk))
>
> (<unknown>:2018): Gdk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>

Now:

(guile) wingo@badger:~/src/guile-gnome/platform$ DISPLAY=foo ./dev-environ guile-gnome-2
scheme@(guile-user)> (use-modules (gnome gtk))
While compiling expression:
ERROR: In procedure gdk-init: GDK failed to initialize; is $DISPLAY set correctly?

Not great, but better.

Andy
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