Re: xfm

2021-06-24 Thread Michael van Elst
asbat...@gmail.com (Andrew Ball) writes:

>Hello,

>The man page for sysutils/xfm says, in the section 'RUNNING XFM FOR
>THE FIRST TIME':-

>   "When the user starts up xfm for the first time (more precisely,
>when the user does not yet have a .xfm directory), a dialog pops
>up which asks whether she wants to run the xfm.install script..."

>Instead I get an error box that says "! Sorry: Appl. Defaults Not
>Found check XFILESEARCHPATH and friends".  The only button provided is
>[Cancel].

You can copy the Xfm app-defaults to your file search path or add
/usr/pkg/lib/X11/app-defaults to the search path. The package
probably assumes the pkgsrc X libraries.

Then you get errors in that file regarding the translation strings.
If you strip the unknown translations HIST_TRANSLATION(..) and
LOG_TRANSLATION in that file, xfm will start. But it's not very
functional, e.g. a click on a folder icon has no effect.

The package needs some love...



xfm

2021-06-24 Thread Andrew Ball
Hello,

The man page for sysutils/xfm says, in the section 'RUNNING XFM FOR
THE FIRST TIME':-

   "When the user starts up xfm for the first time (more precisely,
when the user does not yet have a .xfm directory), a dialog pops
up which asks whether she wants to run the xfm.install script..."

Instead I get an error box that says "! Sorry: Appl. Defaults Not
Found check XFILESEARCHPATH and friends".  The only button provided is
[Cancel].

If I manually run xfm.install, I'm told "Default configuration files
installed" but xfm still just throws the same error box.  This is on
NetBSD/evbarm 9.2 on a Raspberry Pi 2B.

-Andy Ball