gedit runtime error

[William Davis]

On Nov 19, 2008, at 1:01 AM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

>
> On Nov 18, 2008, at 15:35, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>
>> On 2008 Nov 18, at 14:18, William Davis wrote:
>>> Ive just installed gedit using macports and get this runtime error:
>>> macintosh:~ frstan$ gedit &
>>> [1] 31566
>>> macintosh:~ frstan$ Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display "/ 
>>> tmp/launch-AEpBLV/:0".
>>
>>
>> gtk+ always attempts to use the XRandR extension.  Jeremy thinks  
>> it's not useful;I think it'd be a good way to let users select  
>> whether the dock and/or menu bar are useful,
>
> How exactly does "select whether the dock and/or menu bar are  
> useful" fall under Resize and Rotate?
>
>> not to mention adapting if the OSX monitor(s) are reconfigured  
>> (without XRandR, X11 is incapable of handling size changes).
>
> Uhm... that's not true.  We do reconfigure correctly when monitors  
> are reconfigured (and have since sometime around 2.2.2 I think).
>
>> (Suppose I would have to get myself into a position to implement it  
>> myself....)
>
> What exactly would you have it do?
>
>

Just as a point of information: Gimp also complains or rather Xlib  
complains after Gimp is started.  As to the merits of the issue, I'm  
unqualified to comment.

William Davis
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