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Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2018 12:47:37 -0600
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Alex ter Weele <alex.ter.weele@gmail.com> writes:

>
>     $ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
>     $ echo $LD_PRELOAD
>     /gnu/store/hfz0z0fs14jgl0kzk5hid2msr83lxii1-spectrwm-3.1.0/lib/libswmhack.so.0.0
>
> That's weird, looks like my WM set LD_PRELOAD. I wouldn't have expected
> that. And sure enough, with LD_PRELOAD unset:
>
>     $ LD_PRELOAD= emacs -Q --eval "(kill-emacs)"
>     ...(GTK warnings omitted)
>     $ echo $?
>     0
>
> So why and how does spectrwm set LD_PRELOAD? I can't figure this out.

OK, I figured it out:
https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm/blob/SPECTRWM_3_1_0/spectrwm.c#L3764. Looks
like it injects libswmhack.so so that it can intercept X events,
e.g. https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm/blob/SPECTRWM_3_1_0/lib/swm_hack.c#L137