Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 19:06:28 +877900 From: dh2@netwalk.com (Randall Hopper) To: harpo@javanet.com (John D. Szumowski) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: app defaults not recognized... Message-ID: <Mutt.19961231190628.dh2@user.netwalk.com> In-Reply-To: <32C81227.41C67EA6@javanet.com>; from John D. Szumowski on Dec 30, 1996 14:04:07 -0500 References: <32C81227.41C67EA6@javanet.com>
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John D. Szumowski:
|I found some "app defaults" files that I wanted to use, so I downloaded
|them and moved them to /usr/X11/lib/X11/x-defaults (i also have a
|/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults link to this dir). Specifically, the files
|were for Xcalc and Ghostview. However, neither app recognizes them.
|Is there something else which needs to be enabled?
|thanks.
(Assuming XFree86), the important X directories are all off /usr/X11R6
instead of /usr/*/X11 as on other platforms. You can create convenience
links for them if you want:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11 -> /usr/lib/X11
/usr/X11R6/bin -> /usr/bin/X11
In particular, place your system-wide app-default files in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults. You can override this with
$XFILESEARCHPATH, but the packages assume you'll use this directory. If
you've already installed the Ghostview package, it should already have put
its app-default file there, and Xcalc's should be there too.
Randall Hopper
rhh@ct.picker.com
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