Unexpected behaviour

[camaramm]

I'm simply trying Gadfly with the following commands:

   > import Gadfly
   > Gadfly.plot(x=rand(10), y=rand(10))

But julia session crashes and keeps repeating the error message:

   >** (pcmanfm:#####): WARNING **: The directory '~/Templates' doesn't exist, ignoring it
   >fixme:exec::SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100

where ##### stands for some integer. Even after quitting Julia, my terminal session keeps repeating the error message, which just stops after killing process `wineserver'. However, Gadfly works fine when running under Juno, in spite of being very slow. I'm running Julia Version 0.3.10 on x86_64-linux-gnu (Arch Linux).

[vchuravy]

Hej,

could you try:

import Gadfly
p = Gadfly.plot(x=rand(10), y=rand(10))
display(p)

And what does Gadfly.default_mime() give you?

I suspect that the problem lies in the fact that pcmanfm is trying to open a html site.

You can use the extra/perl-file-mimeinfo package to check and set the default program for html pages.

touch test.html
mimeopen -d test.html

[camaramm]

Hello vchuravy,

Your suggestion involving display(p) didn't work as well. But your suspicion about opening html was right: Gadfly.default_mime() returns "text/html". I've installed extra/perl-fime-mimeinfo and set firefox as default program and it worked, I was able to see the graph. By the way, is there a program/driver better than firefox to display it?

However, there is still an error message:

   ** (pcmanfm:1143): WARNING **: The directory '~/Templates' doesn't exist, ignoring it

   (process:####): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed

Is it worth worrying about it?

Thank you for now.

Regards.

[vchuravy]

Yeah you can ignore the message from pcmanfm.

Firefox is a pretty good choice for this. I think the choice to output html was so that you could interact eg. zoom in and out of the plot.

[bjarthur]

seems that this issue is resolved, so i'll close it.