Audacity tries to interact with Gnome via libgnomeui. If it dlopens library, we get GTK2 and GTK3 symbols in one application. Luckily, GTK3 detects this early and crashes. --- audacity-Audacity-2.3.2/src/AudacityApp.cpp.1 2019-08-10 20:50:21.064091116 +0000 +++ audacity-Audacity-2.3.2/src/AudacityApp.cpp 2019-08-10 20:57:41.366368746 +0000 @@ -538,6 +538,7 @@ public: GnomeShutdown() { +#if 0 mArgv[0].reset(strdup("Audacity")); mGnomeui = dlopen("libgnomeui-2.so.0", RTLD_NOW); @@ -580,6 +581,7 @@ } g_signal_connect(mClient, "save-yourself", G_CALLBACK(save_yourself_cb), NULL); +#endif } virtual ~GnomeShutdown()