On Nov 1, 12:31am, Markus Baeurle wrote:
> Subject: Re: 'missing' X resources
> Hi Rob!
>
> In message <9610301743.ZM4607@warhol>
>           Robert Black <r.black@ic.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > > I have now got X almost working on my machine after putting in 3
> > > symbolic links;
> > > /usr/X11 ...to... /usr/X11R6.1
> > > /usr/lib/X11 ...to... /usr/X11/lib/X11
> > > /usr/include/X11 ...to... /usr/X11R6.1/include/X11
> >
> > This sounds like you have a problem with your path. These links should not
be
> > there and indeed they can break things. Check that you don't have
/usr/X11/bin
> > in your path.
>
> Think again, how can lib and include have anything to do with the path?
> If fvwm looks for its ressources in /usr/lib/X11 instead of /usr/X11/lib/X11
> then that's a mistake made during compiling the set to the best of my
> knowledge, period.
> I haven't checked the newer fvwm set though.

Correct in theory, but some of the imake stuff will pick up the path it is
invoked with and compile it into new applications. Some badly behaved
applications will also munge the path to find resources. I found this one out
the hard way.

Cheers

Rob

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