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To: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami)
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Subject: Re: PREFIX with X11 ports 
In-reply-to: asami's message of Tue, 20 Aug 1996 04:13:20 -0700.
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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 14:30:49 +0200
From: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl>
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>  * There is one variable I've found, XUSERFILESEARCHPATH, that seems ideally
>  * useable as a method of moving the defaults stuff where we want it.
> 
> But that is what the X window system leaves to the user for additional 
> configuration.  I'm a little weary about us taking it away, as it
> doesn't belong to the system, and the ports tree is more on the system 
> side than the user side.
> 

Can't you make wrappers for the xwindows programs where you set 
the variables to the appropriate values (I use XAPPLRESDIR for
example).

Here is how my netscape script looks:

#!/bin/sh

export XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/local/netscape
export CLASSPATH=/usr/local/netscape
/usr/local/netscape/netscape $*

Regards,
Marc.
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