[Xquartz-dev] X11 2.2.0_rc1

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 27.03.2008 um 05:29 schrieb Harald Hanche-Olsen:
> + Jeremy Huddleston:
>
>> Ah... I see it's not that files there shouldn't be there... it's
>> that the files there aren't working and have junk instead of what
>> they should have... I'm looking into it.
>
> Yeah, they are executables. They should be text files containing X
> resource specifications for the similarly named programs. Sorry I
> wasn't more clear.
>
>> On Mar 23, 2008, at 21:20, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>> What is there that doesn't belong there (I'm not at my system to  
>>> look
>>> at it myself right now).
>>>
>>> On Mar 23, 2008, at 13:12, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Not only xfontsel. The whole directory /usr/X11/lib/X11/app- 
>>>> defaults/
>>>> is filled with stuff that doesn't belong. Restore from the  
>>>> backup of
>>>> /usr/X11 that you surely made before istalling rc1.


I presume it happened because the X server was built on simple (old  
standard) HFS+: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8432.  
Because in this file system the files "name" and "Name" cannot exist  
both, a lot of X clients are installed in app-defaults.

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