On 2017-04-01, David Griffith <d...@661.org> wrote: > > I'm interested in tinkering with components of MATE and testing them > while leaving the APT-installed versions alone. I've built and > installed the components from the Github repos and installed them to > /usr/local/. I can't figure out how to load applets from /usr/local. > In particular, can someone tell me how to use the /usr/local version > of the Workspace Switcher instead of /usr/? > >
See the man page[1] for the linux loader, particularly with regard to the environment variables LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD. 1: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ld.so.8.html -- Liam