> Well, the X server wrapper is setuid root. I hope you can appreciate the > grave security implications of letting users redefine the dynamic loader's > search path in the context of a process running with root privileges.
I didn't realize that, thanks. > > I also tried to start X with xinit command but with same result. After > > return from X variable is set right. > > > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH is needed by java to point to directory /usr/lib/jni used > > for non-java libraries such as libJavaEditline.so. > > Why don't you set up your user session to set the variable how you like? > Please see the Xsession(5x) and xinit(1x) manual pages. > You mean to put "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH= ..." into .xinitrc ? Of course I tried it but again other exports are ok but this is ignored. Workaround is to put it into .bashrc which works for me. Jan