Re:

> http://macaroni.cs.wits.ac.za/xsetup.html

and my comment:

> except that it says that an alternative to ldconfig is to set up 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH and this doesn't seem to work.  Has just setting 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH worked for anyone?

and Colin Wood's assesment,

> I believe that the reason why the LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't work is that 
> one of the shells that is started during the X startup process apparently 
> doesn't manage to inherit this value.  If you add the appropriate line to 
> both you .profile and your .cshrc file, I believe it will probably work.

Yes to the shells not picking up the value, but no to the ".profile"
working (at least in sh - didn't try csh or bash).

Yours,

Andrew