From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 12 18:57:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA25606 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 18:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au [129.78.129.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA25599 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 18:57:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dawes@localhost) by rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.2) id LAA12605; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 11:57:08 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19970913115708.17462@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 11:57:08 +1000 From: David Dawes To: Terry Lambert Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape annoying dialog boxes References: <19970913093035.50156@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> <199709130010.RAA22413@usr04.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199709130010.RAA22413@usr04.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sat, Sep 13, 1997 at 12:10:05AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Sep 13, 1997 at 12:10:05AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >> Netscape doesn't use libXaw anyway (why would a Motif application use >> the Athena Widgets?). ldd confirms this. > >Well, then Nate isn't having the error. 8-) 8-). >> Did you re-run xrdb after editing your .Xdefaults. If you didn't, >> that might explain it. Brian said that he did, and it worked for him. >> To confirm that the change has taken, check the output of 'xrdb -query'. > >If Nate is sane, he doesn't run xrdb; I certainly don't. It's too So I must be insane :-). >hard to handle the middle case. IMO, the .Xdefaults and the xrdb >are frequently treated as completely seperate namespaces; both must >be searched by apps (I *know* Motif searched both). They *are* separate namespaces. xrdb loads them into the Xserver, so they are server-wide, and stored on the server side. Both the .Xdefaults file and app-defaults files are on the client-side. >This leads me to a question... if Nate dies run "xrdb -query", and >gets back some crap, it may be his XDM that's screwing him up. Is >Brian using XDM for login? XDM uses Xaw, right? Xdm has no direct affect on this, and whether or not it uses Xaw is irrelevant. Xdm's Xsession (or ~/.xsession) may be setup to run xrdb, but that isn't something implicit in xdm. I personally use xdm, and have the following in my ~/.xsession file: if [ -f "$HOME/.Xdefaults" ]; then xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults fi The sample Xsession file does something similar. I don't see this problem with any version of netscape I've ever run on any platform. David