Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

Dr.D.J.Picton dave@aps5.ph.bham.ac.uk
Thu Mar 25 13:46:00 GMT 2004


>From: "Dr.D.J.Picton" <dave at aps5 dot ph dot bham dot ac dot uk> 
>    To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com 
>    Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:22:01 +0000 (GMT) 
>    Subject: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc. 
>    Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com 
>    Reply-to: "Dr.D.J.Picton" <dave at aps5 dot ph dot bham dot ac dot uk> 

>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 .

Sorry - spot the deliberate mistake!  That should have been

cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11; ln -s /etc/X11/* .



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