ogata@leviathan.cs.umd.edu (Jefferson Ogata) (03/09/91)
I understand that there has been some difficulty dealing with a number of resource settings using app-defaults files, e.g. because it is not possible to set different resources depending on whether a monitor is monochrome or color. I have another problem, and that is that I have to have higher-level access in order to move things into the app-defaults directory when I am installing X applications for my personal use. If I set the XAPPLRESDIR variable to a personal app-defaults directory, I have to link in all the other app-defaults files in this directory. (If there is another way, please let me know.) A very simple solution to both of these problems just occurred to me; so simple in fact that I feel certain the X Consortium has considered it, but I thought I'd throw it on the net anyway. Have an environment variable called XAPPLRESPATH instead of XAPPLRESDIR. I think this is pretty self-explanatory. Any comments? -- Jefferson Ogata ogata@cs.umd.edu University Of Maryland Department of Computer Science
gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Stephen Gildea) (03/11/91)
I have another problem, and that is that I have to have higher-level access
in order to move things into the app-defaults directory when I am installing
X applications for my personal use. If I set the XAPPLRESDIR variable to a
personal app-defaults directory, I have to link in all the other app-defaults
files in this directory. (If there is another way, please let me know.)
You want to be setting XUSERFILESEARCHPATH instead; that variable does
take a path argument.
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MIT X Consortium