Bug#121129: xdvi: doesn't appear to respect mfMode resource setting

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

Julian Gilbey writes:
 > Package: tetex-bin
 > Version: 1.0.7+20001218-6
 > 
 > When I run xdvi, it seems to ignore the fact that I have specified
 > mode ljfour in my app-defaults file (using texconfig).  I think I can
 > guess what the problem is:
 > 
 > xdvi first reads /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/XDvi (symlink to
 > /etc/X11/app-defaults/XDvi) and sees the mode I've specified via
 > texconfig.
 > 
 > Then it checks the resources in my environment.  But, oh no!  The old
 > /etc/X11/Xresources/tetex-base file is still there and screwing things
 > up!  Any chance of doing something about it, like removing it or
 > renaming it to something like /etc/X11/Xresources/tetex-base.old so it
 > won't cause any harm?

renaming wouldn't help, because simply all the files in
/etc/X11/Xresources get evaluatet.

Christoph