wrong app-defaults in fresh installation

[Frank-Michael Moser]

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