Image.show() is a funky beast. I am tempted to tell you to write a
simple helper function to save an image to a temp location and show it
using some sort of Popen command. This might be your best bet. I
personally have not got Image.show() to work past windows XP.
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Neru Yumekui <neruy...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am trying to get Image.show() to work, but seem to struggle with it. Thus
> far I have been using PIL on Windows, and it has worked fine and all - But I
> recently installed it on a Linux-machine, where img.show does not seem to
> work (All other features apart from screengrab seems to work well).When I run
> the following as a normal user (id est, not root)Image.new("RGBA", (100,
> 100), (255, 255, 255, 0)).show()it results in these error messages in
> popupboxes:Failed to open "/tmp/tmpsVfqf4".Error stating file
> '/tmp/tmpsVfqf4': No such file or directory.Failed to execute default File
> Manager.Input/output error.The interpreter has the following printoutThunar:
> Failed to open "/tmp/tmpFs5EZr": Error stating file '/tmp/tmpFs5EZr': No such
> file or directoryRunning the same as root, nothing (visible) seems to happen,
> either via popups or in the interpreter, but no image shows up either.At
> first I did not have xv installed (it tried to open the image in gimp, but
> that did not work as it resulted in the errors above when gimp opened) - So I
> installed xv, and it still tried to open gimp - So I removed gimp, and that
> is more or less how I ended up where I am now. I guess show() is not that
> important to me as I could just save the image and open it manually, but it
> would be helpful to have show() at times.
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