Running meld (dbus error: autolaunch requested but X11 support not compiled)

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Jan 20, 2011, at 05:49, Rainer Müller wrote:

> On 01/20/2011 10:58 AM, iulian dragos wrote:
>> --->  Activating dbus @1.2.24_1
>> ############################################################################
>> # Startup items have been generated that will aid in
>> # starting dbus with launchd. They are disabled
>> # by default. Execute the following command to start them,
>> # and to cause them to launch at startup:
>> #
>> # sudo launchctl load -w
>> /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist
>> # launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
>> ############################################################################
>> 
>> The only weird thing was that I needed to do 'sudo' for the second
>> command as well (didn't have permissions otherwise).
> 
> You only need write permissions once to remove the <Disabled> key from
> the plist file. As an alternative you could use launchctl load -F which
> forces the load.

On Snow Leopard, there's a per-user override.  You should be able to just do:
launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist