did a fresh install of meld (3.14.2-1) on ubuntu 16.04, and running it gives the following error.
$ meld
Failed to connect to Mir: Failed to connect to server socket: No such file or directory
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
Failed to connect to Mir: Failed to connect to server socket: No such file or directory
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
(meld:17993): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen: assertion 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/meld", line 282, in <module>
setup_resources()
File "/usr/bin/meld", line 191, in setup_resources
Gtk.IconTheme.get_default().append_search_path(icon_dir)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'append_search_path'
I am using putty, and X11 forwarding is enabled as shown in this image:
Further Xming is also running. And if i run meld from another 14.04 ubuntu machine, it works fine. Actually, i want to add meld as a graphical tool for git, and facing this issue.