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Re: wrong app-defaults in fresh installation
- From: Frank-Michael Moser <moser at decodon dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 11:40:20 +0100
- Subject: Re: wrong app-defaults in fresh installation
- Organization: DECODON GmbH
- References: <b1qr46$fac$1@main.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
It is the lesstif package which creates a folder
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
when /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Mwm is extracted. When there is
already a link
app-defaults -> /etc/X11/app-defaults/
the everything is fine - otherwise later you will get the app-defaults
link to /etc/X11/app-defaults/ inside the usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
folder.
I had the same problem sometime ago and "complained" ;) to the list.
Don't know whether the lesstif maintainer or somebody else could fix it.
Frank-Michael
Danilo Turina wrote:
Hi,
in in a fresh installation of Cygwin on my new XP PC, I noticed that
xcalc (and other X apps) didn't work properly. I have had this problem
some time ago: within the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults has
been created a link to /etc/X11/app-defaults (where the app-defaults of
many applications are).
So while in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults there are on the
app-defaults of Mwm all the other app-defaults are in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/app-defaults and the various X apps
(e.g. xcalc) can't find them.
Last time I thought that this problem was my fault in that I
installed X, lessTiff, WindowMaker as separate packages before they were
included in setup and then, when they become available in setup, I
replaced them with the setup versions. So I thought some re-packaging
would have caused that problem and simply replaced
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults with a link to /etc/X11/app-defaults.
Now, with a fresh Cygwin installation, I have the some problem (that
I will solve in the same way) so I think there is some problem with the
installation of some X package.
Ciao,
Danilo Turina