Opened 13 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#27068 closed defect (fixed)

pidgin runs in background, can't see it in an X window

Reported by: tixetsal@… Owned by: dbevans (David B. Evans)
Priority: Low Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 1.9.1
Keywords: Cc:
Port: pidgin

Description (last modified by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt))

I am running Snow Leopard, and I can't find a prebuilt binary of pidgin, so I settled on this "package manager." I am new to MacPorts, so it is possible that I am missing something simple.

I installed MacPorts from a binary. I installed pidgin. Pidgin failed b/c of an issue building db46. I installed the Java Developers Package, and I was able to install pidgin.

I setup pidgin with all of my IM accounts, and it was working acceptably. The last time that I used it, I clicked on the little red X icon (in OS X) to close the X window. This doesn't stop pidgin from running in the background, so I killed the process.

The next time that I started pidgin, I got the usual (i saw this when the X window was visible) gripe:

Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!

It fires up the X11 (OS X) app, but it never creates a pidgin X window. If I

pro:~ shaun$ ps aux | grep -i 'pidgin'
shaun      443   0.0  0.0  2470384    364 s000  S+    7:25PM   0:00.00 pidgin
shaun      442   0.0  0.0  2470384    376 s000  S+    7:25PM   0:00.00 pidgin
shaun      438   0.0  0.5  2472160  22484 s000  S+    7:25PM   0:00.34 pidgin
shaun      444   0.0  0.0  2470868    400 s000  S+    7:25PM   0:00.00 pidgin

I can see that there are 4 processes running related to pidgin, but there is no way to view the X window.

If I spawn pidgin as root, I can again see the X window which walks you through account configuration, so I think that the solution is probably pretty simple and basic.

Can anyone please advise? I am not really a "mac guy," and I don't know much at all about MacPorts.

TIA

Change History (6)

comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Description: modified (diff)
Milestone: MacPorts Future
Owner: changed from macports-tickets@… to nefar@…

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by jemaltz@…

This was a bug fixed in Pidgin 2.7.8, additionally there is a workaround of setting /pidgin/docklet/show to 'never', in .purple/prefs.xml. I imagine this is safe to close.

comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by jemaltz@…

I meant to include the Pidgin ticket in my previous comment, http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/12129

comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Keywords: pidgin X11 window removed
Type: submissiondefect

comment:5 Changed 9 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Cc: nefar@… added
Owner: changed from nefar@… to devans@…

comment:6 Changed 9 years ago by dbevans (David B. Evans)

Cc: nefar@… removed
Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Fixed by update to version 2.7.9 in r75215. Current version is 2.10.10.

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