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From: ogata@leviathan.cs.umd.edu (Jefferson Ogata)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Applications resources files
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Date: 9 Mar 91 10:31:27 GMT
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Reply-To: ogata@leviathan.cs.umd.edu (Jefferson Ogata)
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I understand that there has been some difficulty dealing with a number of
resource settings using app-defaults files, e.g. because it is not possible
to set different resources depending on whether a monitor is monochrome or
color.

I have another problem, and that is that I have to have higher-level access
in order to move things into the app-defaults directory when I am installing
X applications for my personal use. If I set the XAPPLRESDIR variable to a
personal app-defaults directory, I have to link in all the other app-defaults
files in this directory. (If there is another way, please let me know.)

A very simple solution to both of these problems just occurred to me; so
simple in fact that I feel certain the X Consortium has considered it, but
I thought I'd throw it on the net anyway.

Have an environment variable called XAPPLRESPATH instead of XAPPLRESDIR.

I think this is pretty self-explanatory. Any comments?
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Jefferson Ogata        	        ogata@cs.umd.edu
University Of Maryland          Department of Computer Science