Hi
I don't know why, but all of a sudden X applications (e.g netscape and
Xterm) don't look in /etc/X11/app-defaults for X
application-spesific resources files (e.g.: Netscape, XTerm). With
netscape the result is fatal: it gives an error message that begins with:
netscape-communicator: couldn't find our resources?
stracing it shows indeed that it does look there:
$ strace netscape 2>&1 |grep app-defaults
access("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/he/app-defaults/Netscape", R_OK) = 0
stat("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/he/app-defaults/Netscape", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_size=28130, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/he/app-defaults/Netscape", O_RDONLY) = 9
I tried creating a new user, and that user seems to have the same problem.
I can't remember anything special I did today as root that might have
caused this.
The man page for X (1), and netscape's error message mention:
XAPPLRESDIR, XFILESEARCHPATH, XUSERFILESEARCHPATH
as environment vars that might affect the resources lookup. However I
don't recall seeing them around in Mandrake's init scripts (or in
Mandrake's X init script).
Any ideas where to look for this?
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