On Oct 16, 2004, at 1:11 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
R John Sandeman wrote:
Martin
I have looked up /sw/etc/app-defaults and the Fig and Fig-color files are in that directory. I have moved them to /etc/X11/app-defaults and done a symbolic link to the //sw/etc/app-defaults location as per all those files.
This has now cured the problem and with the ~/.Xresources file I can see the "help" html files etc.
So everthung now seems OK. Thanks very much for the assistance. Looking at the xfig.log file it looks as though the install script did put them into /sw/etc/app-defaults directly?
Yes, and by purpose: Fink avoids, if at all possible, to change anything outside of /sw. If you have, as you affirmed, the evironment variable XAPPLRESDIR set to /sw/etc/app-defaults, then actually /etc/X11/app-defaults is *not* searched for config files, *only* /sw/etc/app-defaults is.
Therefore there have to be symlinks inside /sw/etc/app-defaults pointing to the things in /etc/X11/app-defaults that were installed there outside of Fink. But the files installed by Fink will go into /sw/etc/app-defaults. If your xfig doesn't see them there, then there is still something wrong with the environment from which you start it.
John:
The XAPPLRESDIR environment variable is supposed to be set by the fink initialization script. Does your .xinitrc file have a line like "source /sw/bin/init.sh"? It should...
-- Dave
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