Doesn't work in MacOS Mohave

[PVGrad]

I run it

meld /etc/php.ini.default-previous /etc/php.ini.default-previous\~orig
/Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS

And nothing happens - only icon of meld is showing, but no window Then I press ctrl+c to terminate process and this is the output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/meld", line 47, in <module>
    status = subprocess.call([MELDPATH] + arglist, env=environment)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 522, in call
    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1384, in wait
    pid, sts = _eintr_retry_call(os.waitpid, self.pid, 0)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 476, in _eintr_retry_call
    return func(*args)
KeyboardInterrupt

[PVGrad]

As I understood - there were my local problems with python2.7 after system update to Mohave. So issue can be closed. Thanks

[zzju]

@PVGrad So how to resolve this problem? macOS 10.14 python --version Python 2.7.10

many thanks.

[zzju]

installed python 3, and re-installed meld 3.19, meld works again.

[fafafariba]

I have python 3 installed as well as meld 3.19, but still having the same problem as OP.

[munepi]

Please try to run the following Bash script _clean-meld-settings.sh to cleanup your some settings of Meld.

#!/bin/bash

cd ${HOME}
rm -rf ./.local/share/meld
rm -f ./Library/Preferences/org.gnome.meld.plist
rm -rf "./Library/Saved Application State/org.gnome.meld.savedState/"

[munepi]

Today morning (UCT+9 🇯🇵), I also have posted how to use/change custom-font with Meld plist settings in Issue Can't change font #38. The plist file ~//Library/Preferences/org.gnome.meld.plist is just the one. Please check and try the post if necessary.

[fafafariba]

Please try to run the following Bash script _clean-meld-settings.sh to cleanup your some settings of Meld.

#!/bin/bash

cd ${HOME}
rm -rf ./.local/share/meld
rm -f ./Library/Preferences/org.gnome.meld.plist
rm -rf "./Library/Saved Application State/org.gnome.meld.savedState/"

This worked for me, thank you.

[ppannuto]

I've got approximately the same output running Meld (python version 2.7.15, OS X 10.14). Cleaning settings did not change anything for me:

/Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS/Meld", line 47, in <module>
    status = subprocess.call([MELDPATH] + arglist, env=environment)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 172, in call
    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1099, in wait
    pid, sts = _eintr_retry_call(os.waitpid, self.pid, 0)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 125, in _eintr_retry_call
    return func(*args)
KeyboardInterrupt

Anything else I can try?

[MaxBenChrist]

Please try to run the following Bash script _clean-meld-settings.sh to cleanup your some settings of Meld.

#!/bin/bash

cd ${HOME}
rm -rf ./.local/share/meld
rm -f ./Library/Preferences/org.gnome.meld.plist
rm -rf "./Library/Saved Application State/org.gnome.meld.savedState/"

this worked for me as well, thank you! 👍

[JerryShih]

Please try to run the following Bash script _clean-meld-settings.sh to cleanup your some settings of Meld.

#!/bin/bash

cd ${HOME}
rm -rf ./.local/share/meld
rm -f ./Library/Preferences/org.gnome.meld.plist
rm -rf "./Library/Saved Application State/org.gnome.meld.savedState/"

this worked for me as well, thank you! 👍

It worked only 1 time after cleaning all setting. I still only see an icon for the second and the after runs.

[munepi]

@JerryShih That is an unofficial, bad know-how :-( , but please try the following three steps.

1. move the original Mac-port starter script to Meld.distro below.

   $ mv /Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS/Meld /Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS/Meld.distro
   

2. make a wrapper /Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS/Meld of the Meld.distro below

   #!/bin/bash
   
   ## 
   # $ sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Meld.app/
   
   ## standard plist settings: OK
   # ~/Library/Preferences/org.gnome.meld.plist
   # $ defaults read org.gnome.meld
   # $ defaults write org.gnome.meld "/org/gnome/meld/use-system-font" 0
   # $ defaults write org.gnome.meld "/org/gnome/meld/custom-font" "Ricty, 18"
   
   ##FIXME: ad-hoc cleanup Meld settings
   (cd ${HOME}
   rm -rf ./.local/share/meld
   #rm -f ./Library/Preferences/org.gnome.meld.plist
   rm -rf "./Library/Saved Application State/org.gnome.meld.savedState/"
   )
   
   # export G_ENABLE_DIAGNOSTIC=1 # 0 or 1
   # export GTK_THEME=Adwaita # Adwaita or Adwaita:dark
   # export GTK_DEBUG=interactive
   
   logger "/Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS/Meld.distro"
   exec "/Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS/Meld.distro" $@
   

3. Then, $ chmod +x /Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS/Meld

I remark that

• you are available some GTK-related environment variables inside the above wrapper Meld: G_ENABLE_DIAGNOSTIC, GTK_THEME, GTK_DEBUG.
• you are also available some tips commented in the above wrapper Meld if necessary.
• I also have posted how to use/change custom-font with Meld plist settings in Issue Can't change font #38. The plist file ~//Library/Preferences/org.gnome.meld.plist is just the one. Please check and try the post if necessary.

[JerryShih]

@JerryShih That is an unofficial, bad know-how :-( , but please try the following three steps.

1. move the original Mac-port starter script to Meld.distro below.

   $ mv /Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS/Meld /Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS/Meld.distro
   

2. make a wrapper /Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS/Meld of the Meld.distro below

   #!/bin/bash
   
   ## 
   # $ sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Meld.app/
   
   ## standard plist settings: OK
   # ~/Library/Preferences/org.gnome.meld.plist
   # $ defaults read org.gnome.meld
   # $ defaults write org.gnome.meld "/org/gnome/meld/use-system-font" 0
   # $ defaults write org.gnome.meld "/org/gnome/meld/custom-font" "Ricty, 18"
   
   ##FIXME: ad-hoc cleanup Meld settings
   (cd ${HOME}
   rm -rf ./.local/share/meld
   #rm -f ./Library/Preferences/org.gnome.meld.plist
   rm -rf "./Library/Saved Application State/org.gnome.meld.savedState/"
   )
   
   # export G_ENABLE_DIAGNOSTIC=1 # 0 or 1
   # export GTK_THEME=Adwaita # Adwaita or Adwaita:dark
   # export GTK_DEBUG=interactive
   
   logger "/Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS/Meld.distro"
   exec "/Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS/Meld.distro" $@
   

3. Then, $ chmod +x /Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS/Meld

I remark that

• you are available some GTK-related environment variables inside the above wrapper Meld: G_ENABLE_DIAGNOSTIC, GTK_THEME, GTK_DEBUG.
• you are also available some tips commented in the above wrapper Meld if necessary.
• I also have posted how to use/change custom-font with Meld plist settings in Issue Can't change font #38. The plist file ~//Library/Preferences/org.gnome.meld.plist is just the one. Please check and try the post if necessary.

It just a wrapper to clean the setting before calling meld. What's the root cause for this problem? Do all gtk-base gui tools have the same problem?

[yousseb]

Not all gtk-based, just the pygtk-based require such wrapper.

And I apologize for not being able to help as efficiently on this thread (and others), but I promise that once I have some spare time on my hands + having collected some tricks and fixes from the people that comment on those issues, I'll create a new release that would include the fixes in one nifty release.

[munepi]

Hi @yousseb , Thank you for your information and follow-up. I exactly could not trace that problem around pygtk-something :-( So, I have made such ad-hoc wrapper. I'm looking forward to a new release!

[yousseb]

@munepi thank you for trying (and helping others get their cases resolved). I wish there was some means to tell the generated binary the path to look for libraries in a cleaner way to get rid of the python wrapper that I had to make. That on its own would have solved other issues on my list here.

But anyway, I guess I'll be able to put sometime into this within a month or so. Or at least I hope..

[briskgopesh]

#!/bin/bash cd ${HOME} rm -rf ./.local/share/meld rm -f ./Library/Preferences/org.gnome.meld.plist rm -rf "./Library/Saved Application State/org.gnome.meld.savedState/"

Work for me as well. 👍

[chaosless]

these steps fixed it for me too.. thanks!!

rm -rf ./.local/share/meld rm -f ./Library/Preferences/org.gnome.meld.plist rm -rf "./Library/Saved Application State/org.gnome.meld.savedState/"

thanks @munepi i needed the wrapper to run cleanly

[sysadmiral]

these steps fixed it for me too.. thanks!!

rm -rf ./.local/share/meld rm -f ./Library/Preferences/org.gnome.meld.plist rm -rf "./Library/Saved Application State/org.gnome.meld.savedState/"

This isn't really a "fix" though...

[VR2ualize]

rm -rf "./Library/Saved Application State/org.gnome.meld.savedState/"

Nice .. thanks for that :-)

[oxoocoffee]

I have same issue on Mojave with 3.19.0

[bbqchickenrobot]

The fix kind of works for me but the mouse isn't accurate when trying to manipulate the UI elements. I have to go about a quarter of an inch above the UI element for the click event to register. Hopefully this will be fixed sooner than later!

[VR2ualize]

The fix kind of works for me but the mouse isn't accurate when trying to manipulate the UI elements. I have to go about a quarter of an inch above the UI element for the click event to register. Hopefully this will be fixed sooner than later!

I also get that, but only when resizing the application window after opening, if I don't change the size of the application window I don't get that problem.

[dluc]

Please try to run the following Bash script _clean-meld-settings.sh to cleanup your some settings of Meld.

#!/bin/bash

cd ${HOME}
rm -rf ./.local/share/meld
rm -f ./Library/Preferences/org.gnome.meld.plist
rm -rf "./Library/Saved Application State/org.gnome.meld.savedState/"

Thanks, this fixed it, without having to upgrade Python 🏁

Please add this to the release notes 😃

[SemihGk]

Please try to run the following Bash script _clean-meld-settings.sh to cleanup your some settings of Meld.

#!/bin/bash

cd ${HOME}
rm -rf ./.local/share/meld
rm -f ./Library/Preferences/org.gnome.meld.plist
rm -rf "./Library/Saved Application State/org.gnome.meld.savedState/"

Removing some meld files temporarily fixed the issue. So, I wanted to try the wrapper solution as munepi posted above, but no luck I am receiving "There was a problem opening the file" error whenever Meld opens a file. Probably, I am doing something wrong at step2 of the wrapper solution. Anyway, I also look forward to waiting for an update for this issue. Thanks a lot for your help.

[dluc]

Using 3.19.0 and Meld stopped working again. Repeating the steps above fixed the issue one more time, but apparently there's a bug leading to the broken state at some point

[yousseb]

Hey guys, could you please run the _clean-meld-settings.sh script by @munepi in this thread then give this new build a shot?

https://github.com/yousseb/meld/releases/tag/os-11

[preinking]

Running 3.19.2 (r1) but the font size is 18pt and cannot be changed as this leads to a crash

[ira-bv]

tried newest version, no go.

 ↳ meld --version
 meld 3.19.2

But maybe this is a clue, Yousef?

 ↳ /Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS/Meld-bin
 Couldn't set the locale: unsupported locale setting; falling back to 'C' locale

 ** (process:26632): WARNING **: 14:32:29.078: Failed to load shared library 
 '/Users/youssef/gtk/inst/lib/libglib-2.0.0.dylib' referenced by the typelib: 
 dlopen(/Users/youssef/gtk/inst/lib/libglib-2.0.0.dylib, 9): image not found

 ** (process:26632): WARNING **: 14:32:29.078: Failed to load shared library 
 '/Users/youssef/gtk/inst/lib/libgobject-2.0.0.dylib' referenced by the typelib: 
 dlopen(/Users/youssef/gtk/inst/lib/libgobject-2.0.0.dylib, 9): image not found

[yousseb]

Trying to figure this out. But no, it’s not those paths.

The Meld starter python script sets the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH which tells dlopen where to look. In fact, this is the only reason why the script exists and I’ve been looking for a way around this forever. This is deep inside gopject-introspection python compiler. The only recommendation that I have is don’t start Meld-bin directly until I find a solution to telling gi to use relative path.

Alternatively, I could use some help in telling macOS not save state on crashes. Looks like this is what is happening.

On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 4:35 AM Ira Abramov [email protected] wrote:

tried newest version, no go.

↳ meld --version

meld 3.19.2

But maybe this is a clue, Yousef?

↳ /Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS/Meld-bin

Couldn't set the locale: unsupported locale setting; falling back to 'C' locale

** (process:26632): WARNING **: 14:32:29.078: Failed to load shared library

'/Users/youssef/gtk/inst/lib/libglib-2.0.0.dylib' referenced by the typelib:

dlopen(/Users/youssef/gtk/inst/lib/libglib-2.0.0.dylib, 9): image not found

** (process:26632): WARNING **: 14:32:29.078: Failed to load shared library

'/Users/youssef/gtk/inst/lib/libgobject-2.0.0.dylib' referenced by the typelib:

dlopen(/Users/youssef/gtk/inst/lib/libgobject-2.0.0.dylib, 9): image not found

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[yousseb]

One more build. Let's try this one guys:

https://github.com/yousseb/meld/releases/tag/osx-11