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DreamPie requires PyGTK, which, for Mac, requires MacPorts.

The installation instructions are:

Please add here any comments or suggestions.

Also, if anybody volunteers to create a MacPorts package, it would be very nice!

GError: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file

Joe VanAndel experienced this problem, which caused DreamPie to not start at all.

The fix is was to run setenv XDG_DATA_DIRS /opt/local/share before running DreamPie.

See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/dreampie/+bug/526197


2026-02-14 16:07