New app-defaults location in X.Org 7

Stefan Dirsch sndirsch at suse.de
Tue Jul 25 04:02:02 PDT 2006


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

Stefan

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