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Firstly, strangely quickly run on my app runs fine and i believe i have made no changes to the source since quickly debug was working (proclaiming it's not user error is distasteful, I know!).

winpdb itself crashes while my app is initializing inside the boilerplate Window.py inside Gio.Settings().

GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'net.launchpad.cookety-app' is not installed.

I have checked folder data/glib-2.0/schemas and all is as it was when I created project with schemas present.

I have stepped through the code right inside /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/overrides/Gio.py, and found out that Settings.__init__() is where it crashes.

No exceptions, no debugger pausing, just a straight connection lost and winpdb closes thus making it insane for me to even get to the line of code that creates the problem.. most frustrating. Please help!

ish
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William Culver
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Winpdb can't locate the glib settings schema which is used for storing preferences. For example, if you look in the Preferences.py file which Quickly auto-generates, you'll see a call to Gio.Settings("net.launchpad.XXX") which retrieves any locally stored preferences for your application, based on the defined schema.

The documentation for glib-compile-schemas tells us that schemas are searched for in paths matching glib-2.0/schemas/ under the directories in XDG_DATA_DIRS. So, you have a choice. You can either formally install the schema as so:

sudo ln -s $PWD/data/glib-2.0/schemas/net.launchpad.XXX /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/
sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

Or, much more simply, you can set the variable at execution time:

XDG_DATA_DIRS=$XDG_DATA_DIRS:data quickly debug

Coincidentally, the same advice applies to running your application outside of Quickly, e.g.

XDG_DATA_DIRS=$XDG_DATA_DIRS:data python bin/XXX

Note that the above commands assume you're in the root dir of your project, as you probably are if you're using Quickly.

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