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Questions tagged [gobject]
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What does "Introspection" mean, and how is it related to GObject Introspection?
What does introspection mean exactly? How is it useful for a programmer? Can somebody please explain in layman terms?
Nishant George Agrwal
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I cant configure rhythmbox as gobject-introspection 1 is not installed
Previously I advised someone on how to upgrade to Rhythmbox to version 2.99.1 here. However they couldn't upgrade due to gobject-introspection-1.0 not being installed. I couldn't help them.
Now, with a brand new computer, I am getting the same…
Simon
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system-config-printer broken after update to 14.04
After I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 the dialog system-config-printer in gnome runs into problems when called from the command line:
sudo system-config-printer
Traceback (most recent call last):
File…
alodi
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Differences in GLib, Gtk+, GObject, Atk, GIO
What are the differences or relations of these libraries/terms in GNOME development?
Lakindu Akash
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GObject (GTK3) TreeView: how can I activate row programmatically?
I've got a working TreeView with a ListStore as its model and selection set to SINGLE. How do I emit a signal to activate a specific row? I'm using PyGI.
(Sorry if this is basic; it's not in the Python-GTK3 tutorial and much of the documentation…
monotasker
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syslog very large, full of "Object St.DrawingArea has been already disposed error
I found my root partition quickly (lets say daily, even hourly) full. took a look at the syslog and it was 18GB in size. took a look inside and it was full of two errors, one related to a specific Gnome extension (boom! disabled that, and wrote a…
Masoud Borbor
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PyGObject, venv and Ubuntu 20.10: ImportError: libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
After updating from Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 20.10 I am not able to run PyGObject applications on a Python Virtual Environment.
I can reproduce the issue following these simple steps:
sudo apt-get install python3-venv
python3 -m venv venv
source…
Roberto Leinardi
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When *.pyc files (related to their deb-packages) are created and how to recreate them?
I have two Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS systems:
clean installation of Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS
Note: All things in the both systems have been installed using APT (from deb-packages). I did not use pip/pip3, make install,…
N0rbert
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Python Gobject broken Help?
I don't know what broke it, but my python Gobject library is missing something ...
When I try to run most tools like
gnome-tweak-tool
which require GTK, I get an error saying :
Traceback (most recent call last): File…
Xqua
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Nautilus : python extension package compatibility issue (Ubuntu 14.04)?
I tried to install several python nautilus extensions (i.e. nautilus-columns, nautilus-open-as-root,... ) without any success.
Installation goes fine, but nothing shows up in nautilus.
Of course, package python-nautilus is already installed:
ii …
Thierry
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Can I change the file icon with Gio?
Possible Duplicate:
How can I change the folder icon?
I'm using python. I want change a file icon with Gio from a python app. I found a lot of deprecated documentation and I'm not sure how I can do it.
I tried this, but nothing happen:
from…
Costales
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Compiling Pyqt4 program
I am trying to package a program I wrote (using Pyqt4) into a single executable for linux. I tried using Pyinstaller however it has problems with importing Gio (for settings)
from gi.repository import Gio
Running the application would…
user654628
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