Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Dr.D.J.Picton wrote:

> Earlier this week, I re-installed Cygwin from scratch.  The current version 
> of the X server is 4.3.0-60.
>
> I noticed various oddities - in particular, application default files
> were ignored and the keyboard map was incorrect (for example, '#' produced
> a '\').  Then I realized that the server now expects to find all the config
> files under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11.  Installing a few symlinks fixed all 
> the problems:
>
> cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11; ln -s /etc/X11 .
>
> Now everything works properly.   However, it seems to me that something is
> wrong with the package installation scripts which should either install all
> the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11, or create the relevant symlinks in this
> directory.

What are you talking about?  The postinstall script for the lib package 
does exactly what you did... your installation must have barfed for some 
reason because those symlinks have been created by that script for 
months now, if not for longer than a year.  Nothing has changed with 
that script that I know of, unless I royally broke something.

Harold