[csw-users] making Gnome CSW built apps play nice with Sun's gnome 2.0

[Michael Gernoth]

Hi Jeremy,

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:30:56AM -0800, Jeremy O'Leary wrote:
> We have a number of things in our LD_LIBRARY_PATH and the only way I was
> able to login to Gnome 2.8 or get Evolution, GIMP, ... to work in KDE is
> by adding the following to my environment.
...
> The problem is when I have this in my environment, Sun's Gnome 2.0
> behaves very, very strangely including the ever rapidly growing sound
> and clock icons.

This is to be expected, as you force the sun gnome apps to use wrong
library versions.
Don't set LD_LIBRARY_PATH globally!
http://www.visi.com/~barr/ldpath.html

Regards,
  Michael