> Ah, I've seen them under /usr/local in the past. There's various > environment variables that can be set up to say where to look, e.g. > > $ XFILESEARCHPATH=/foo/%N:/bar/%N strace appres Werner 2>&1 \ > | grep Werner
This is clever :-) > So if it's reasonable to assume a user knows what they're doing in > putting executables outside of /usr/bin, e.g. PATH is set up to > cope, then perhaps the same goes for Xt application resources. *Perhaps* only. I dare to say that PATH is something most people are acquainted with, but XFILESEARCHPATH and friends is different. What we need is fool-proof instructions to make a freshly installed xditview's X resource work... Werner