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From: davis@rm1.UUCP (Gary A. Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Toolkit is not reading my resource file
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Date: 25 May 90 20:56:25 GMT
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Organization: Racal Milgo, Sunrise, FL
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Reference: Decwindows

According to my doc on the XtInitialize intrinsic (which calls
XtDisplayInitialize), there are several steps in the loading of the
resource database:

	1. /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/xxx
	2. XAPPLRESDIR environment variable points to a user directory
	3. ~/.Xdefaults
	4. XENVIRONMENT env var points to a host directory (or
	   ~/.Xdefaults-host  [replace "host" with the host name]
	5. Command line

I am having problems with item 2. This is supposed to be a directory
of files named by the application class name. It was being ignored.

I looked at the source code for the intrinsic and  it was obvious that
it didn't do anything with XAPPLRESDIR. In its place, it built a
filename consisting of the home directory, a dot and then the
class name. 

I created the file as ~/.Appl and it worked. Which way is it supposed
to be? The way it was documented or the way it was implemented?

-- 
  Gary A. Davis
  Racal-Milgo, P.O. Box 407044, Fort Lauderdale, Fl 33340, (305) 846-4393

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