From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Mar 21 02:59:46 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA15267 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 02:59:46 -0800 Received: from inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com (inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com [16.1.0.33]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA15261 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 02:59:45 -0800 Received: from tartufo.pcs.dec.com by inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com (5.65/24Feb95) id AA29887; Tue, 21 Mar 95 02:59:51 -0800 Received: by tartufo.pcs.dec.com (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.16.1 #16.39) id ; Tue, 21 Mar 95 11:58 MET Message-Id: Date: Tue, 21 Mar 95 11:58 MET From: me@tartufo.pcs.dec.com (Michael Elbel) To: mark@grondar.za Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gripe of the week (tm) :-) Newsgroups: pcs.freebsd.ports References: <199503201818.UAA28034@grunt.grondar.za> Reply-To: me@FreeBSD.org Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In pcs.freebsd.ports you write: >> still try to open /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults. No? Not necessarily >Hmmm. This seems like a half decent first approximation. My original gripe >was to get the user-generated X binaries out of /usr/X11R6, and if we have to >leave a symlink in this (X11R6) tree to the .../app-defaults, it is a >lot closer than not doing it at all. If it's just app-defaults then there are standard ways to have a search path for that. There's the environment variables XFILESEARCHPATH, XUSERFILESEARCHPATH and XAPPLRESDIR all of which can be used to find app-defaults files in 'non-standard' places (Do a 'man X' e.g.). How to set them globally is left as an exercise to the reader :-) Michael-- Michael Elbel, Digital-PCS GmbH, Muenchen, Germany - me@FreeBSD.org Fermentation fault (coors dumped)