Error when starting denu

Published on May 4th, 2006 in Gentoo

Denu is an advanced menu manager. It’s purpose is to keep menus consistent across different window managers. This is the official description from its project homepage:

Denu is aimed at easing menu organization over a set of varying window managers. Denu was specifically created for Gentoo Linux but as of 2.3.1 denu may be run according to the run-down from any distribution. Version 2.3.x supports gnome 2.10, KDE, fluxbox, openbox, IceWM, Xfce4 and waimea.

As I wanted to try this app out, I experienced the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/denu”, line 21, in ?
import gtk
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py”, line 37, in ? from _gtk import *
ImportError: No module named cairo

This error occurs, after you have upgraded python from version 2.3 to 2.4. It can be solved by running ‘python-updater’, which reinitializes Python and all of its settings.

1 comment

Sergeev Alexei March 10th, 2007

I have denu crashed too, but I use 3.0alpha, so don’t think it is totaly stable for now =)

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