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Subject: Re: GTK applications crash on start
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 09:34:46 +0100
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	(Alex ter Weele's message of "Sat, 03 Mar 2018 12:47:37 -0600")
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Alex ter Weele <alex.ter.weele@gmail.com> skribis:

> Alex ter Weele <alex.ter.weele@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>>     $ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>>
>>     $ echo $LD_PRELOAD
>>     /gnu/store/hfz0z0fs14jgl0kzk5hid2msr83lxii1-spectrwm-3.1.0/lib/libsw=
mhack.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=3D emacs -Q --eval "(kill-emacs)"
>>     ...(GTK warnings omitted)
>>     $ echo $?
>>     0

Bingo!

>> 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#L376=
4. 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_ha=
ck.c#L137

Well, the library name says it all.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.