astal-menu-start.sh LD_PRELOADs libgtk4-layer-shell so it loads before
libwayland-client. That preload is only needed at the daemon's own exec — the
library is resident afterwards and the variable is never re-read — but every app
started via AstalApps.launch() inherited it, and Firefox aborts at startup with
libgtk4-layer-shell preloaded (gdk_display_manager_get() before gtk_init()).
main.py now drops LD_PRELOAD from its environment right after startup, so
launched GUI apps (and backend subprocesses) run with a clean env. Verified the
layer-shell library stays mapped and the menu surface still maps afterwards.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XUWCXM4KhjRkwheaA3X7bP
Amir Alexander Abdelbaki
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