The XAPPLRESDIR enviroment variable.

SeanW · 05-01-2008, 10:57 AM

Hello.

I am learning x window programming from a tutorial. Things are making sense but the tutorial says

Quote:

For your own resource file directory, you can specify its location in the environment variable XAPPLRESDIR. A standard location is the directory .app-defaults in your home directory"

I get what this will do but I don't know how to set the environment variable. Does anybody know how to set the environment variable XAPPLRESDIR?

Thanks

jlliagre · 05-01-2008, 02:06 PM

Just set it like any other variable. The way to do it will depend on the shell or environment you use to launch the X application.

SeanW · 05-02-2008, 01:24 AM

I'm quite new to linux/GNU (though not abismally new). I use fedora 8.

I'm not sure how I would set an environment variable, but I think I found something that shows how to do it.

Thanks

jlliagre · 05-02-2008, 02:31 AM

Under POSIX compatible shells, the syntax is:

Code:

export XAPPLRESDIR=...