On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:32:21AM -0500, Bryan Crader wrote: > I think i have run in to a similiar problem with XTerm not reading the > app-defaults file. > I've deleted the cygwin directory and reinstalled it several times, and > sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't load up the XTerm defaults file. > I then noticed that in the directory: > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/ there is a simlink 'app-defaults' that > somtimes points to the /etc/X11/app-defaults/ directory, and sometimes it > just points to /etc/X11/ if you remake the simlink to /etc/X11/app-defaults/ > it seems to load the XTerm file then.
Attempting to try how it works here, I found _two_ entries in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ both named app-defaults. One the link to /etc/X11/app-defaults/ and the second a real directory. The directory contained only one file "Mwm" and was shadowing (i.e. took precedence) over the sym-link. After removing that directory Xterm.exe definitely reads its app-defaults file (and current user, as well as installing user is non-admin). -- Daniel