> 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