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- From: converse@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Donna Converse)
- Subject: Re: Problems with getting Xt applications to see resources...
- Message-ID: <9208281953.AA26930@excess.lcs.mit.edu>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
- References: <1992Aug27.000326.19188@news.cs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 19:53:33 GMT
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- > Perhaps I am just being stupid (wouldn't be the first time)
- > but I am unable to get either XAPPLRESDIR or XUSERFILESEARCHPATH
- > to work the way they are documented in the FAQ.
- >
- > For instance, I set XUSERFILESEARCHPATH to ./%N.ad:$HOME/%T/%N
- > (and unset XAPPLRESDIR for what that's worth), put a file containing
- > resources into ./Fred.ad and run my application "Fred", but.. no resources
- > are seen. Ditto for a resource file in $HOME/app-defaults/Fred.
-
- Try this:
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- 1. unsetenv XUSERFILESEARCHPATH
- 2. setenv XAPPLRESDIR $HOME/app-defaults
- 3. put the application defaults in the file $HOME/app-defaults/Fred
- note that is *not* Fred.ad
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-
- Donna Converse
- MIT X Consortium
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