diff -up src/AudacityApp.cpp.orig src/AudacityApp.cpp
--- src/AudacityApp.cpp.orig	2019-11-09 05:28:01.854222000 -0300
+++ src/AudacityApp.cpp	2019-11-09 05:29:11.066403000 -0300
@@ -540,12 +540,12 @@ class GnomeShutdown
    {
       mArgv[0].reset(strdup("Audacity"));
 
-      mGnomeui = dlopen("libgnomeui-2.so.0", RTLD_NOW);
+      mGnomeui = NULL;
       if (!mGnomeui) {
          return;
       }
 
-      mGnome = dlopen("libgnome-2.so.0", RTLD_NOW);
+      mGnome = NULL;
       if (!mGnome) {
          return;
       }