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Xclients not working correctly (was: Re: Fun with symlinks?)
- From: Peter Keller <keller at ebi dot ac dot uk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:01:06 +0100
- Subject: Xclients not working correctly (was: Re: Fun with symlinks?)
- Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin,gmane.os.cygwin.xfree
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0206261845460.17279-100000@gremlin.fruitbat.org>
Hi,
Peter's real-life example described at the bottom of his message also
fixes X client problems that I had when upgrading to the latest release.
All credit to him for figuring this out.
One thing that needs clarifying, is that the extra app-defaults symlink
does not show up (for me at least) as a symlink with 'ls -l'. I could only
tell that it was a shortcut from the windows explorer.
Regards,
Peter Keller.
"Peter A. Castro" wrote:
> I've seen a specific "problem" two times now, and I'm pretty sure it's
> a minor flaw in the installer, but I've been bitten by it twice now and
> felt others should be aware of it incase it happens to them.
[snip]
>
> I considder this a minor issue, really, but it does illustrate a problem.
> Now, for another real-life example:
>
> I recently upgraded to the latest XFree packages. After re-starting X,
> suddenly I was getting errors from various apps (eg: xcalc & xman) about
> missing app defaults. I checked /etc/X11/app-defaults but all the
> default files were there. So, I checked /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 and sure
> enough, there were two directories named 'app-defaults'. One was a
> symlink to /etc/X11/app-defaults and the other was an almost empty
> directory containing a lone file: Mwm. After renaming the offending
> directory to something else, the symlink once again provided the proper
> reference.
>
> The only reason I bring this up is that I feel others might encounter
> this problem. I haven't had time to look into the setup code yet, sorry.
> It's probably something simple, like checking if the destination path is a
> symlink and either following it or removing it.
>
> --
> Peter A. Castro <doctor@fruitbat.org> or <Peter.Castro@oracle.com>
> "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood
>
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