On Wednesday 09 January 2002 01:20 am, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:10:13AM +0100, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > On Wednesday 09 January 2002 03:44, G. L. `Griz' Inabnit wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 08 January 2002 09:29 am, Bjoern Krombholz wrote: > > > > > LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libpng.so.2.1.0.12 startx > > > > > > > > Somebody want to tell the dumb guy where to put this > > > > line? :) > > > > > > uh, how about at a command prompt? > > > > Or, if you login via xdm or kdm, create your own ~/.xsession > > file > > > > #!/bin/sh > > LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libpng.so.2.1.0.12 exec /usr/bin/kde2 > > > > and do chmod +x ~/.xsession. > > And just make sure you start all your KDE apps through > kdeinit.
Actually, to get that to work, I had to make an ~/.xsession as follows: #!/bin/sh LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libpng.so.2.1.0.12 export LD_PRELOAD exec /usr/bin/kde2 and then make it executable, as noted before. -- Oliver Johns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> San Francisco, California USA GPG KeyID=A2ACE692 GPG Fingerprint=BE4A C1B8 EB0D 8FD9 737D CE4A 1E56 BF9B A2AC E692