gdk_display_get_name: assertion 'GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed trying to run pidgin

Question

I compiled and installed pidgin on my MacOSx Mavericks, everything seem to went fine on make install but when I try to start pidgin from terminal

I get following error:

$ pidgin

(Pidgin:68719): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_display_get_name: assertion 'GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed
Pidgin 2.10.11

** (Pidgin:68719): WARNING **: cannot open display: unset

can anyone help getting rid of this message ?

Answer 1

So to install Pidgin first I ran ./configure with following arguments. --disable-screensaver --disable-sm --disable-gtkspell --disable-gstreamer --disable-vv --disable-meanwhile --disable-avahi --disable-dbus --disable-nss --disable-gnutls then I ran make to build a compile for my osx mavericks. then make install . In doing all the proces I discovered I need boost python binding, for which I installed boost via macports using sudo port install libboost . But when I tried to run Pidgin I got the above error mentioned in the post, so I discovered Pidgin cannot find the display required. For which I had to install XQuartz restarting installing XQuartz took a while and I relogged in and then Pidgin worked. On my OSx now the value of DISPLAY environment variable points to /tmp/launch-DXOhcE/org.macosforge.xquartz:0