> Probably what Atsuhito really meant was XUSERFILESEARCHPATH which is > mentioned in the script. Would that help you, Stephen? Thank you for the work-around suggestion. In fact, that's exactly what I have to do to get around this xdvi bug. From my .bashrc file: # xdvi on Debian GNU/Linux doesn't respect XAPPLRESDIR if [ "$OSTYPE" = linux-gnu ]; then export XUSERFILESEARCHPATH=$XAPPLRESDIR/%N%C:$XAPPLRESDIR/%N fi