Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and app-defaults
> I was hoping to avoid this, but developing consensus on -policy seems to be
> that I should do this. Sigh.
>
>> [1] Verified, that is lib/Xt/Initialize.c, XtScreenDatabase()
>
> I'm not sure it's not the only one. It's not just Xt-using apps that read
> app-defaults, IIRC. I think the Xrm* functions may deal with it as well.
> I'll check this out.
>
>> [2] And yeah I looked at the code and it looks doable. Insert a check for
>> a file in the old directory around line 534 of the file in [1].
>
Indeed, I believe this is an Xrm issue, not necessarily a Xt one.
Hacking X to do this seems bad. Why did upstream not have a similar redundant
search path?
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