From: ZINSER@sysdev.exchange.de
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 3:06 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: X-windows/DECwindows resource file locations and GV, etc.

Hello!

>         QUESTION: under what circumstances  are X-windows resource files
>     searched   for  in  the  DECW$SYSTEM_DEFAULTS:  directory?   Always?
>     Sometimes?  Only when the window manager starts?
> 
>         The reason  I  ask  is  that  I've  recently  built  a couple of
>     X-windows  applications  on  VMS 7.2 (VAX) and 7.2-1  (Alpha)  under
>     Compaq C 6.2,  namely  GV  (a  Ghostview  follow-on)  and  <shudder>
>     VNCVIEWER.   In  particular,  GV has about 3 or 4 different resource
>     files it wants to access,  e.g.,  GV_SYSTEM.DAT, but the method used
>     by  the  package  apparently  relies on these  files  being  in  the
>     X11_ROOT:[DATA]   and/or   X11_ROOT:[DEFAULTS]   directories   (with
>     X11_ROOT   appropriately   defined)  and  on  modifying  the  user's
>     DECW$DEFAULTS   logical   name    to    be    a   search-list   with
>     X11_ROOT:[DEFAULTS] as the last translation.  In my environment, I'm
>     sure  the procedure provided will get this logical name redefinition
>     wrong...
> 

	Well, since I'm kind of involved with GV, here is my setup....

$ sh log decw$system_defaults
   "DECW$SYSTEM_DEFAULTS" = "X11RESOURCES" (LNM$PROCESS_TABLE)
	= "SYS$SYSROOT:[DECW$DEFAULTS.USER]"
	= "SYS$SYSROOT:[DECW$DEFAULTS.SYSTEM]"
	= "SYS$LIBRARY:"
1  "X11RESOURCES" = "X11_ROOT:[RESOURCES]" (LNM$PROCESS_TABLE)
1  "SYS$LIBRARY" = "SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSLIB]" (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)
   "DECW$SYSTEM_DEFAULTS" = "SYS$SYSROOT:[DECW$DEFAULTS.USER]" (DECW$LOGICAL_NAMES)
	= "SYS$SYSROOT:[DECW$DEFAULTS.SYSTEM]"
	= "SYS$LIBRARY:"
1  "SYS$LIBRARY" = "SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSLIB]" (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)
$ dir decw$system_defaults:*gv*

Directory X11_ROOT:[RESOURCES]

GV.DAT;1                   1/20        1-JAN-1995 00:00:00.00
GV_CLASS.DAT;1            78/80       23-APR-1999 16:22:43.03
GV_COPYRIGHT.DAT;1         2/4         6-APR-1997 00:00:00.00
GV_DUMMY.DAT;1             1/4         6-APR-1997 00:00:00.00
GV_FONT_RES.DAT;1          8/12       26-APR-1997 00:00:00.00
GV_INTERN_RES_VMS.DAT;1
                           1/4        19-FEB-1999 16:08:58.13
GV_LANDSCAPE.DAT;1         7/20        1-JAN-1995 00:00:00.00
GV_LAYOUT_RES.DAT;1
                          19/24        7-JUN-1997 00:00:00.00
GV_MAKE_RES.DAT;1          1/4        19-FEB-1999 16:08:57.59
GV_MESSAGE.DAT;1          10/20        1-JAN-1995 00:00:00.00
GV_MISC_RES.DAT;1         43/48       21-JUN-1997 00:00:00.00
GV_REGIONS.DAT;1          12/20        1-FEB-1995 00:00:00.00
GV_SPARTAN.DAT;1           4/8         7-JUN-1997 00:00:00.00
GV_SYSTEM.DAT;1            8/12       23-APR-1999 16:22:42.75
GV_USER.DAT;1              8/12       19-FEB-1999 11:12:15.35
GV_USER_RES.DAT;1          6/8        21-JUN-1997 00:00:00.00

Total of 16 files, 209/300 blocks.


	I do keep the none-DECpaq suff in a separate directory, 
	but as you can see this is still referenced via decw$system_defaults,
	and yes this setup works fine with GV ;-)

						Greetings, Martin
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