app-defaults location
Hello all, Just downloaded complete Cygwin/XFree86 package from mirror site, and did install from local directory. Starting up with an out of the box C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat, it seems as though xcalc, xfontsel are broken. They start, but don't display correctly. After a little investigation, I found the install creates a /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/app-defaults directory. Copying the XCalc, XFontSel, ... files from there to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults makes everything display correctly. This is only my observation in the hopes it might be of help to somebody. I am not an expert at Cygwin or X, so if I am screwing this up myself, please forgive me. I do appreciate the work people have put into this project, and would like to contribute what I can. Thanks.
Re: RFP : shell defaults
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 05:25:11PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Robert Collins wrote: If someone wants to follow my notes in reply to Corinna and create a shell defaults package, that would be great. AFAIK all distro's generate a very simply prompt for you, and then leave it up to you. One thing that might be useful: SuSE Linux sets PROFILEREAD=yes as first thing in /etc/profile and all $HOME/.profile depend on this and read /etc/profile if this is not set. Running cygwin and accessing homes on a SuSE box will fall into an never ending loop. And, it sounds like (possibly) running Mandrake linux and accessing home on a SuSE box will fall into an infinite loop, and (definitely) running Red Hat will do so. This sounds like a dubious feature to me. cgf
