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Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.
- From: "Dr.D.J.Picton" <dave at aps5 dot ph dot bham dot ac dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:22:01 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: "Dr.D.J.Picton" <dave at aps5 dot ph dot bham dot ac dot uk>
Earlier this week, I re-installed Cygwin from scratch. The current version
of the X server is 4.3.0-60.
I noticed various oddities - in particular, application default files
were ignored and the keyboard map was incorrect (for example, '#' produced
a '\'). Then I realized that the server now expects to find all the config
files under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. Installing a few symlinks fixed all
the problems:
cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11; ln -s /etc/X11 .
Now everything works properly. However, it seems to me that something is
wrong with the package installation scripts which should either install all
the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11, or create the relevant symlinks in this
directory.