Microsoft/vscode

GTK+ module libcanberra-gtk-module.so cannot be loaded

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#179,086 opened on Apr 4, 2023

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Description

Hello guys,

I'm using OpenCV in VSCode (Ubuntu Software installation) and everything worked fine, until I updated my libraries (sudo apt-get update/upgrade/full-upgrade) I guess. But now VSCode or rather OpenCV can't find the GTK library.

I've tested this succesfully: GTK_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0 ./test --> works

But when I specify the version gtk-3.0: GTK_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0 ./test --> fails

Normally the loaded version without using GTK_PATH is gtk-3.0 and then it shows me this error: image

I verified that the in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/modules is:

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Would appreciate to solve this warning and to understand why the .so cannot be loaded.

Thanks in advance

UPDATE: the example code can be executed without warnings in the normal gnome terminal, but VSCode seems to habe problems to find the specific libraries, so it's definitely VSCode.

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Investigate how VSCode sets the GTK module path in its integrated terminal and compare with the system default.
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