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- From: avinash@felix.contex.com (Avinash Chopde)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Defeating the resource file search path.
- Message-ID: <3310@contex.contex.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 16:16:40 GMT
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- Is there any way to defeat the default X resource file search path?
- It is extremely difficult to modify X programs if it involves changing
- resource files---even if I keep a copy of the resource file in the
- current directory, the default X mechanism *merges* all the resource file
- it finds - from /usr/lib/app-defaults, from $XUSERFILESEARCHPATH,
- .Xdefaults, and $XENVIRONMENT!
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- Is it possible to force a X program to use only resource files in
- the current directory, and inhibit this merging of resource files?
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- If this is not possible, how does a X developer maintain and debug
- X resource files? (Edit the resource files in *all* the locations
- on your system is an answer!)
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