Hi not sure if this applies, but perhaps sounds should be stored as described in:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications which links to -> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/sound-theme-spec and finally the spec itself -> http://0pointer.de/public/sound-theme-spec.html I didn't have time to read the whole thing, but I think on my computer this leads to something like ~/.local/share/xboard/... then there is also http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html which list /usr/share/games/xboard/ as the correct place for e.g. sound files. Just as an reminder: paths shouldn't be hardcoded, but use the $datadir from the configure script. cheers ARUN
