New app-defaults location in X.Org 7

Stefan Dirsch sndirsch at suse.de
Tue Jul 25 04:23:24 PDT 2006


On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:02:02PM +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 12:35:20PM +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Since the default location for app-defaults files in X.Org 7 is now
> > /usr/share/X11/app-defaults I wonder if there is an easy workaround
> > for legacy X11 apps available so that both directories
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults *and* /usr/share/X11/app-defaults are
> > read (the latter one preferred)? The same is also interesting for
> > systems on which you only update X.Org and not the X11 apps. Any hint
> > would be appreciated.
> 
> I must have been blind ...
> 
> configure (libXt):
> [...]
>   --with-xfile-search-path=<path>
>                           Set path to search for app-defaults and other files

Well, looking at configure it will be easier to patch the
configure.ac. :-)

Stefan

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