Dia Diagram Mac OSX Yosemite Fix
I use the Dia tool for all my diagramming work. I have worked with many tools, but find Dia the easiest to use and is the most responsive, apart from it being a great OpenSource tool :).
I recently upgraded to the new Mac Operating System Yosemite and I could no longer use Dia. Each time I clicked on the Dia icon, it would jump up & down and do nothing. I finally tried opening the app via the command line, which gave me the following error:
The domain/default pair of (.GlobalPreferences, AppleCollationOrder) does not exist
The error trace ended with GTK warning - could not open display.
I could not find anything on the internet that was Dia specific, so I thought of writing this blog, in hope of helping someone in the same situation as me. So here is what I did:
- Goto your Applications directory where Dia.app exists (mine was located at: /Applications)
- Right click the icon and click on Show Package Contents
- Goto the directory Dia.app/Contents/Resources/bin
- Edit the file dia, in your favourite text editor.
- After line 39, add the line: export DISPLAY=:0
- Save and exit.
- Close XQuartz if its running.
- Now Dia should come up.
- If it does not come up, try restarting your computer.
If not, try and add the line - export DISPLAY=:0 to your ~/.bash_profile, re-login and hopefully you should have Dia working once again.
Let me know if this helped you out :)
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The red rectangle shows where I put the DISPLAY variable for Dia to start responding. |
304 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 304 of 304Two years later and it still fixes the problem. Thank you!
Thank, you note really help me a lot.
Thanks! That worked great!
Worked great! Thank you very much!
LIfesaver!
it does not work for me! I've added export display =:0 to bash_profile and Dia. Is there any way run it ?
It works for me too! Thank you very much! OSX 10.11.6 (El Capitan)
Hey it works for me on El Capitan, too. Thank you. I note that the export should be made conditionally further up the script; but apparently the test is wrong. :-(
It works!!! Thank you very much!
It worked fine also for me: great!
Excellent. Thanks for taking the trouble to document the fix. Worked perfectly.
IOS 10.10 it works. Thanks
Thank you, this was very helpful. May I suggest you update the post to tell people to make sure they have tried to run the program at least once before doing this to avoid the Gatekeeper corruption error that has showed up in the comments? I had the same problem until I found the comment from Darcy dated September 16, 2015 at 7:18 AM where he explained how to get around it. I had been trying numerous ways to solve this and apparently had reinstalled it, but never tried that instance when I found your post.
Wow ...works, how did you figure that out ?
Thanks! Work like a charmed.
Works for OS X El Capitan
Thanks, work for me
macOS 10.12.1 (16B2657)
From Spain. Thanks so much
Nice Trick it worked form me as well!!!
Thanks for sharing it worked
Thank you so much. Works on my Os X Sierra!
Worked like a charm!!!!!
Thanks a lot, it did work for me too !
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Worked fine for me... Just the right thing to do!
thank you so much. but, how do you get to this solution?
Thankyou for this! Worked for me.
open http://xquartz.macosforge.org
exit
fi
fi
fi
export DISPLAY=:0
export DISPLAY =: 0
osascript -e 'tell app "XQuartz" to launch'
for i in `seq 1 30`; do
if [[ `ps aux | grep -v grep | grep startx | wc -l` -lt 1 ]]; then
sleep 1
fi
Work con MacO Sierra 10.12.3
Had the same problem, add the two lines as shown and the program runs well
omg I can't believe it worked. thank you so much for taking the time to contribute to the internet!
Thanks. Worked!
Installation of diashapes-0.3.0.dmg and Mono runtime in MacOS Sierra in Espeañol:
Download (http://dia-installer.de/diashapes/index.html) diashapes-0.3.0.dmg and Mono runtime, first install Mono-Framework. Then mail diashapes-0.3.0.dmg, but do not install it, copy it into a folder and after the cikp right shows package contents. Go to: Contents / MacOS and in the Diashapes file, give cikp right edit with the text editor and modify the path:
MONO_FRAMEWORK_PATH = MCINTOSH / Library / Frameworks / Mono.framework / Versions / Current
to
MONO_FRAMEWORK_PATH=MCINTOSH/Biblioteca/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/4.9.0
(For better security, better verify the path with finder and the name of the folder)
Save, close the text editor and double-cick the file Diashpes, it takes a while but then the dialago appears to instill the commas of the diagrams
Worked for me on OSX 10.11.6. Thanks.
I'm surprised that, after 2.5 years, this has not been fixed by the Dia team. Any idea why?
Hi, I really do not know.
I am an unexpected in the subject, I wanted an option to visio and searching the internet I found with Dia, I did not work and I looked for this blog, which helped me to solve the problem, then look for Diashpes and I presented the problem, Restless I found the solution and wanted the one who had that problem could solve it as I solve mine.
Thanks!
you are sexy man!! grrat! TY!!
still works.. thanks.
This worked for me! Thank you
This works for me! Thanks :D
How can this work?
Fix works on macOS Sierra 10.12.3. I also confirmed that it did not work without your fix being applied. Thanks!
Works for me. Thanks!
It worked! Thank you!!
Thanks !!!
Great. Works like a charm
Works with El Capitan. Thanks!
Yay, a bit late to the party, but THANK YOU!
It works for me! thanks for sharing this!
Works fine on Sierra. Thanks :-)
Great, it worked!
Still works! Thanks!
I tried this method with textEdit, but that didn't work since it was locked. After installing emacs, everything worked out. So happy after all this time! Thanks!
Thank you!! it worked !!!
What is the extension name of the program opened in text editor. I typed in the line of code and I saved it as .exe and .txt but it doesn't work?
It works for me, thanks !
Still working on Sierra ! Thanks!
FUNCIONO GRACIAS
Thank You very much
It's late 2017 and this fix still working, great :D
Yay works for me on El Capitan. Thank you for taking the time to post this blog
I used Adobe Brackets as the (free) code editor (cause text edit doesn't show line numbers and notepad plus plus from sourceforge looked dodgy - asks for a password to open the DMG file.)
Yes, it worked. Thank you.
Thaaaaaanks!
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This solves my problem. Thanks
I only just tried this in 2018 on high sierra and it is still the appropriate fix - well done.
Just one more "Thanks a Lot!"
I'm also on High Sierra and the same fix worked.
I'm wondering why it's not already fixed on the Dia script.
Many thanks.
+1 - Thanks!
Thank you, worked well
Thank you so much, it worked for me!
I solved it using XQuartz "Application" manager.
Click on Add Item
In the Name column added "Dia"
in the Command column added "/Applications/Dia.app/Contents/Resources/bin/dia"
Didn't add a Shortcut.
Close X11 Applicaiton Menu
Dia is now available under XQuartz's Application menu.
It's a kludge but it works. DISPLAY=:0 didn't work for me on macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Thanks for this easy fix, it helped a lot. As I am still new to MAC and command line this level of debugging is over my head.
Well done ! Thanks
Worked For Me Too....... Cool Trick.
Thanks Buddy
thanks!, works for me, OS/X High Sierra 2018
Thanks!
Thank you!!
Thanks so much for this! I'm on El Capitan (10.11.6) and it worked for me.
Thank you!!
Still works on El Cap 10.11.6. May your bitcoin wallet always be full!
Thank you sharing your hack! Worked for me, too!
X years later - Thanks!!!
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It works... thank you so much.
Four years later and the download isn't fixed and your fix still works. Thanks!
it works, thank you very much !
Thanks very much...Saved my day...
Its work for me. Simple and help me. I am using MacOS Mojape. Thank you.
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Well, I had no idea how to edit a file that default opens with the terminal but I do now! computer knowledge +10%
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you are god!
regards from argentina!
Excelent bro! It's working now.
Works!
thanks mate. It's 2020 and this is still what saved me.
2021 And it still works. Thank you!!!
yes, adding "export DISPLAY=:0" at line 39 of "/Applications/Dia.app/Contents/Resources/bin/dia" and restarting XQuarz did the trick. Thank a lot for the hint.
uups, sorry. Adding "export DISPLAY=:0" _after_ line 39, not _at_ line 39.
Still VERY useful in 2021, THANKS!!!
Thanks so much for this, it still work for Big Sur!
It's 2021 and I still needed this fix from 7 years ago! Thank you soooooooooo much!
Also hello from the future :)
Thank you. It works for me!
Smart cookie!
Your solution looks to work well, and consistently, without the per-session command line workaround I found on bugzilla.gnome.org:
$: nohupp Xephyr etc.
I wasn't looking forward to doing this command-based workaround each time I wanted to use Dia, either through the terminal, or an adjustment to scripts.
So thanks again, a simple one-line change to the dia file and away we go on my old, old OSX machine!
Gracias buen hombre!!
Thanks a lot after days of trying to run dia this steps helped and it works now
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