environment / screen / X

[David Walter]

I ran into a strange problem today when running x under the hurd.

I noticed that I was not able to load some programs under X as a user.

At first I thought that this was a user vs root permissions problem
because I hadn't seen this under the root login.

But I found out by ldd'ing some of the programs and verifying that the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH was correctly configured to point to /X11R6/lib for
the user account that ldd _failed_ to find libX11.so even with the
correct LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

I had been running screen  previously but was  trying to identify  the
reason (assuming configuration problems) for  some lock ups when using
X.

I innocently tried running screen and starting X and was able to
execute these programs (rxvt for example.)

then running ldd successfully reported the libraries.

This was reproducible.

No   screen, no libX11.
with screen, -> libX11. reported found.


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