evince post install launch tweaks help needed

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Mon Dec 19 13:51:32 UTC 2022



> On 19 Dec 2022, at 12:31 pm, chilli.namesake at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> oops, probably want to add
> 
> sudo port install xorg-server
> 
> 
> so, altogether, 
> 
> sudo port install xorg xorg-server; sudo port load dbus

If all you need is a X server, then installing everything brought in by ‘xorg’ is completely unnecessary. Just install xorg-server.

> 
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> 
>> On Dec 19, 2022, at 07:03, chilli.namesake at gmail.com wrote:
>> 
>> I just went through this on Mountain Lion and Mojave. I believe it's
>> 
>> sudo port install xorg
>> 
>> Installs XQuartz X11.app in /Applications/MacPorts
>> but I think also may need to 
>> 
>> sudo port load dbus
>> 
>> and log out and back in again.
>> 
>> IMO, Homebrew is a bloody mess. Good luck uninstalling it. Probably easier to reformat and reinstall the system. I don't understand the attraction to it. It's an exceptionally poor implementation of a package management system.
>> 
>>>> On Dec 18, 2022, at 23:46, Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi;
>>> 
>>> I running MacPorts with MacOS Ventura 13.1 w/ M1 CPU.
>>> 
>>> I had previously installed evince but was getting periodic flashing
>>> on-and-off when trying to view a postscript file.
>>> 
>>> So I re-installed evince from source and the following is the output
>>> from the install.  I don't know how to make certain that evince will
>>> launch properly.
>>> 
>>> I installed xQuartz from homebrew, I'm not certain how to get an
>>> XWindows environment properly set up using MacPorts.  Perhaps that is
>>> part of my problem.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ken Wolcott
>>> 
>>> Warning: Schema “org.gnome.system.locale” has path “/system/locale/”.
>>> Paths starting with “/apps/”, “/desktop/” or “/system/” are
>>> deprecated.
>>> Warning: Schema “org.gnome.system.proxy” has path “/system/proxy/”.
>>> Paths starting with “/apps/”, “/desktop/” or “/system/” are
>>> deprecated.
>>> Warning: Schema “org.gnome.system.proxy.http” has path
>>> “/system/proxy/http/”.  Paths starting with “/apps/”, “/desktop/” or
>>> “/system/” are deprecated.
>>> Warning: Schema “org.gnome.system.proxy.https” has path
>>> “/system/proxy/https/”.  Paths starting with “/apps/”, “/desktop/” or
>>> “/system/” are deprecated.
>>> Warning: Schema “org.gnome.system.proxy.ftp” has path
>>> “/system/proxy/ftp/”.  Paths starting with “/apps/”, “/desktop/” or
>>> “/system/” are deprecated.
>>> Warning: Schema “org.gnome.system.proxy.socks” has path
>>> “/system/proxy/socks/”.  Paths starting with “/apps/”, “/desktop/” or
>>> “/system/” are deprecated.
>>> --->  Cleaning evince
>>> --->  Removing work directory for evince
>>> --->  Scanning binaries for linking errors
>>> --->  No broken files found.
>>> --->  No broken ports found.
>>> ~: evince ~/Blowin_in_the_Wind.ps
>>> dbus[29961]: Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did
>>> not provide a socket path, verify that
>>> org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!


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