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From: ejk@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Kubaitis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Client Ethics/Etiquette
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.191904.14630@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 91 19:19:04 GMT
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Reply-To: ejk@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Kubaitis)
Organization: University of Illinois - Urbana
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I recently ran into a problem involving my NCD 19 X-Terminal and the
InfoExplorer X application running on IBM RS/6000 AIX 3.1-3003. Part
of the problem is that InfoExplorer resets (and does not restore) the 
server font-path to include a directory that will be found on IBM AIX 
3.1 systems. Another part of the problem seems related to its doing an 
"xrdb -load".

This strikes me as unethical, or at least impolite, behavior in an X
client. Shouldn't only the user or a display manager acting on the user's
behalf mess around with server font paths and the resource database?

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Ed Kubaitis (ejk@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu)
Computing Services Office - University of Illinois, Urbana