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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!news From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: app defaults not recognized... Date: 1 Jan 1997 17:53:09 GMT Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5ae8a5$45r@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <32C81227.41C67EA6@javanet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.140 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.windows.x:93597 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33427 In article <32C81227.41C67EA6@javanet.com>, "John D. Szumowski" <harpo@javanet.com> writes: > 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). Shouldn't that be /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults? Even with your symlink, you still have a problem, as it's not linked from the right directory. > Specifically, the files > were for Xcalc and Ghostview. However, neither app recognizes them. > Is there something else which needs to be enabled? > thanks. You also have to watch the spelling of the filenames. Any app-defaults file that starts with "X" should also have the second letter capitalized, e.g., "XCalc". -- Conrad Sabatier | conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads |