Which Free Linux Desktop Is Best? (CRN) [LWN.net]

Which Free Linux Desktop Is Best? (CRN)

Posted Aug 24, 2006 23:50 UTC (Thu) by horen (subscriber, #2514)
In reply to: Which Free Linux Desktop Is Best? (CRN) by tjc
Parent article: Which Free Linux Desktop Is Best? (CRN)

/usr/lib/libX11.what.ever.else

check if you have an LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or other environment variable) which might override what's in /etc/ld.so.conf. Also check /etc/ld.so.conf to see if /usr/lib is listed. If it isn't, add it and run "ldconfig".

Mouse-based window lowering: YES

Vertical/horizontal maximization: NO (if this is important to you, suggest it to joewing@joewing.net, and he might just incorporate it)

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Which Free Linux Desktop Is Best? (CRN)

Posted Aug 25, 2006 0:40 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

More likely is that libX11 is installed (it's a rare non-headless system
that doesn't have that these days, and even most headless ones do) but the
X11 header files and .so symlink (the development packages) are not.

Which Free Linux Desktop Is Best? (CRN)

Posted Aug 26, 2006 1:58 UTC (Sat) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

Yeah, I was missing something. I thought xlib11-dev would be sufficient, but it's not. I installed the (Ubuntu) xlibs-dev transitional package, and everything is fine. Thanks.