Re: [Matplotlib-users] Warning from pylab.plot on Linux

[Jouni K. S. <jk...@ik...>]

Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> writes:

> sigeti wrote:
>> Dear Matplotlib Folks,
>>
>> When I run pylab.plot, I get a weird warning:
>>
>> ** (python:20754): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to system bus
>
> Which backend are you using? I suspect this is actually a bug in the GUI 
> framework being used, which we could rule out by running a simple script 
> to do something basic (like show a window) and see if we get the same 
> warning.

FWIW, that same message sometimes gets printed when running Gnome
programs in a non-Gnome environment. So perhaps this is a GTK or GTKAgg
backend thing, and could be resolved simply by switching to e.g. TkAgg.

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