XGterm and OSX Leopard

Philip Massey wrote on May 29, 2008

Hi, Mike et al---

OK, we are having a wacky problem. Deidre and I installed iraf and X11 (via scisoft, I confess) and everything is working fine EXCEPT that the xgterm is not picking up the app-defaults. So, I downloaded the binary distribution and followed the instructions including the mv app-defaults/* /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults. At least on Leopard there IS no /usr/lib/X11, and so I had to create one, as well as the subdirectory app-defaults.

But, the /usr/lib/xgterm doesn't pick up those app-defaults either.

Suggestions?

thanks,
phil

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on May 29, 2008

Hi Phil,

I think under Leopard the directory is now /usr/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults and not just /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults.

I only recently got a second Mac to support Leopard but with travel, haven't had a chance yet to upgrade/configure a machine. In any event, your XFILESEARCHPATH environment variable should still be able to use non-standard locations, e.g.

setenv XFILESEARCHPATH ":/usr/lib/X11/%T/%N%S:/usr/x11R6/lib/X11/%T/%N%S:/usr/local/lib/%T/%N%S:"

-Mike

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Philip Massey wrote on May 29, 2008

Mike,

Moving the app-defaults to /usr/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults indeed solved the
problem. THANKS!

---phil

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