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From: elf@ee.ryerson.ca (Luis Fernandes)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: app defaults not recognized...
Date: 31 Dec 1996 13:46:32 -0500
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For some reason, your X server is not looking for app-defaults files
where you are installing them.

In such cases the quick fix is to use the XUSERFILESEARCHPATH
environment var.

Create an app-defaults directory in your home-directory, drop the
files there and 

setenv XUSERFILESEARCHPATH ~/app-defaults/%N

in your .xxxrc file (i.e. your shell); don't forget the %N at the
end.