I still think that this isn't packaging problem of Ubuntu or Debian but a
misunderstanding how X defaults works.
If you build xfig yourself you should use
./configure --with-appdefaultdir=/etc/X11/app-defaults
otherwise this won't work on Ubuntu or Debian systems.
For this I close this issue
@florian42: Where does your xfig 3.2.7a come from? Is it from the
Ubuntu/Debian package or is it self compiled? If the latter, you may
have to fix your configure options. If the former: what package version
are you talking about exactly? Are you really sure, that it comes with
the Fig file in
Still is a problem in xfig 3.2.7a
workaround for me:
sudo cp /usr/local/share/X11/app-defaults/Fig /etc/X11/app-defaults
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Title:
XFig only
I updated xfig
sudo apt install xfig
and the problem was solved.
I am using Ubuntu 16.04
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Title:
XFig only looks for system-wide app-defaults
Aha, thanks. The thing is that locally installed XFig complains about
using an old app-defaults file (the one installed by a package), and
asks to fix it by "make install" though that only puts the respective
file into the /usr/local dirs. Thus XFig should advise to copy that Fig
file into the
As far as I can see, this is neither an Ubuntu nor an XFig issue, but
some misunderstanding how X resources work at all.
There is one global app-defaults directory, that is read by the X
server. In Ubuntu this is usually /etc/X11/app-defauts. As far as I
can see, you cannot use a different
