Re: New xawtv system wide config file lives where?
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 02:50:23AM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:34:17AM -0500, stan wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:36:17PM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:21:34PM -0500, stan wrote:
> > > > Just did my daily update of my woody machine, and BOOM framebuffer TV
> > > > quit working.
> > > >
> > > > I strongly suspect this is because I let the installer create the
> > > > "new systemwide xawtv file". Silly me,
> > >
> > > dpkg -L xawtv
> > >
> > > /usr/share/man/man5/xawtvrc.5.gz
> >
> > OK, do you see any likely suspects here?
>
> man xawtvrc
>
> xawtvrc(5)
>
> NAME
> xawtvrc -- TV apps config file
>
> SYNOPSIS
> /etc/X11/xawtvrc
> $HOME/.xawtv
Ah, thnaks.
I'm curiosu about this location thouhg. Is this going to become a new
place to place config files, in addition to /etc/*?
Even granting that, this seems like a pooor choice for thsi paritcualr
package, since this file controls (in addaition to 2 X programs xawtv, and
motv), a non X program fbtv.
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