cannot launch some applications from within XFCE

[Alexander Toresson]

On 5/30/06, nusret <nbalci_l at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a problem described below. Actually I am just
> curious about the source of the problem, there are
> obvious work-arounds otherwise. If I'm asking a stupid
> question, excuse me please, as I am a casual Linux
> user. One big reason for this, actually was the bloat
> and sluggishness of Gnome and KDE: XFCE can make me
> use Linux more frequently :). Anyways, here is my
> issue:
>
> I recently built the FOX C++ library simply to use
> their Adie text editor, on Xubuntu Dapper with XFCE
> 4.4.
> When I install the built shared library *really
> locally* (I mean, if I don't invoke ldconfig, but just
> set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in my .bashrc login script), I
> observe the following issue:
> When I type
> >>adie
> from the console, the program starts. But,
> double-clicking in the filemanger fails to execute the
> file.
> If I globally install the shared library by modifying
> /etc/ld.so.conf and then invoke ldconfig as root,
> filemanager successfully executes "adie" (the text
> editor aforementioned).
>
> Any idea why this happens?
> Thank you.
> N.
>

.bashrc is afaik ignored for X programs.

Regards, Alexander Toresson