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X Resources file for x11 terminal

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

I've created an X Resources file for gnuplot.
But which directory should it be kept in?
  .../term
  .../share
  .../docs

And is there a way to have the autoconfigure
tools figure out where such files are kept on the
system so that it can be installed?  

On my machines these files live variously in
   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
   /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults
but I'm sure other systems keep them other places.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: X Resources file for x11 terminal

[<br...@ph...>]

Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> I've created an X Resources file for gnuplot.
> But which directory should it be kept in?
>   .../term
>   .../share
>   .../docs

Either share or src.  This is neither a terminal driver, nor is it 
documentation.  Of these two, share makes more sense.

> And is there a way to have the autoconfigure
> tools figure out where such files are kept on the
> system so that it can be installed?  

Environment variables XUSERFILESEARCHPATH, APPLRESDIR, XFILESEARCHPATH
control this (--> 'man X'), otherwise it'll be next to the library and 
include paths found by autoconf macro AC_PATH_X.

Re: X Resources file for x11 terminal

[Lars H. <lhe...@us...>]

> >And is there a way to have the autoconfigure
> >tools figure out where such files are kept on the
> >system so that it can be installed?  
> 
> Environment variables XUSERFILESEARCHPATH, APPLRESDIR, XFILESEARCHPATH
> control this (--> 'man X'), otherwise it'll be next to the library and 
> include paths found by autoconf macro AC_PATH_X.
 
 I would give it the same treatment as the LaTeX files - put a copy of it
 into $(prefix)/share/gnuplot/<version>.