> I was hoping to avoid this, but developing consensus on -policy seems to be > that I should do this. Sigh. > >> [1] Verified, that is lib/Xt/Initialize.c, XtScreenDatabase() > > I'm not sure it's not the only one. It's not just Xt-using apps that read > app-defaults, IIRC. I think the Xrm* functions may deal with it as well. > I'll check this out. > >> [2] And yeah I looked at the code and it looks doable. Insert a check for >> a file in the old directory around line 534 of the file in [1]. >
Indeed, I believe this is an Xrm issue, not necessarily a Xt one. Hacking X to do this seems bad. Why did upstream not have a similar redundant search path?
