Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 11:57:08 +1000 From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape annoying dialog boxes Message-ID: <19970913115708.17462@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199709130010.RAA22413@usr04.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sat, Sep 13, 1997 at 12:10:05AM %2B0000 References: <19970913093035.50156@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> <199709130010.RAA22413@usr04.primenet.com>
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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
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