On 1/16/14 9:54 AM, Thomas Schneider wrote:
Alexander:
That leads me to think that Fink's xfig install is probably setting
things up properly, and that the extra 'Fig' file that Brian
suggested might be the problem. A likely place would be in
/usr/X11/share/X11/app-defaults.
I have that
Alexander:
After a bit of checking, I found that we explicitly set xfig to look
in the right place for its app-default file at compile time. The
lookup can be overridden by environment variables and dot files, as
Martin mentioned in his message, so I'd recommend checking on what
he
On 1/16/14 10:39 AM, Thomas Schneider wrote:
Alexander:
After a bit of checking, I found that we explicitly set xfig to look
in the right place for its app-default file at compile time. The
lookup can be overridden by environment variables and dot files, as
Martin mentioned in his message,
Alexander:
This is supposed to happen automatically after the app-defaults
package is installed, though one either needs to start a new
terminal or to source /sw/bin/init.(c)sh again. If you didn't start
a new terminal or if you aren't using source /sw/bin/init.csh in
your .cshrc (or
On 1/16/14 11:23 AM, Thomas Schneider wrote:
Alexander:
This is supposed to happen automatically after the app-defaults
package is installed, though one either needs to start a new
terminal or to source /sw/bin/init.(c)sh again. If you didn't start
a new terminal or if you aren't using
Brian and Fink:
I have the latest version of xfig from fink:
% fink list xfig
Information about 8929 packages read in 1 seconds.
i xfig 3.2.5b-3 Menu-driven tool to create graphical objects
(Note that there is apparently a newer version available from
Brian:
It looks in the application defaults file Fig, in the
/etc/X11/app-defaults or /usr/etc/X11/app-defaults directory
(you will have to find that directory and file) and it compares the
Fig.version in that file:
Fig.version:3.2.5c
with the version compiled into
Brian:
Hmm, perhaps there is another app-defaults directory.
Try appres Fig | grep version and see what it says. appres tells
you the defaults for programs.
If it says something other than 3.2.5b then there is another Fig
file in another app-defaults directory.
1% appres Fig
2%
It gave
On 1/15/14 1:52 PM, Thomas Schneider wrote:
Brian:
Hmm, perhaps there is another app-defaults directory.
Try appres Fig | grep version and see what it says. appres tells
you the defaults for programs.
If it says something other than 3.2.5b then there is another Fig
file in another
On 16/01/14 00:15, Alexander Hansen wrote:
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That leads me to think that Fink's xfig install is probably setting
things up properly, and that the extra 'Fig' file that Brian suggested
might be the problem. A likely place would be in
/usr/X11/share/X11/app-defaults. Also, what do you get
It looks in the application defaults file Fig, in the
/etc/X11/app-defaults or /usr/etc/X11/app-defaults directory
(you will have to find that directory and file) and it compares the
Fig.version in that file:
Fig.version:3.2.5c
with the version compiled into the program.
Hmm, perhaps there is another app-defaults directory.
Try appres Fig | grep version and see what it says. appres tells you
the defaults for programs.
If it says something other than 3.2.5b then there is another Fig file
in another app-defaults directory.
Brian
On 1/15/2014 1:32 PM, Thomas
Hello,
I installed xfig using apt-get. I can start it, but after the start
there is an error message in a separate Xfig-window:
---
Either you have a very old app-defaults file installed (Fig),
or there is none installed at all.
You should install the correct version or you may lose
Zinaida Benenson wrote:
Hello,
I installed xfig using apt-get. I can start it, but after the start
there is an error message in a separate Xfig-window:
---
Either you have a very old app-defaults file installed (Fig),
or there is none installed at all.
You should install the correct
Did you read fink info xfig?
You won't believe it, but it didn't occur to me. ;)
Well, seriously -- thanks for the pointer. Now xfig works fine.
Zina
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