Bug reported by Julian Gilbey on the Debian BTS 3 years ago. The Xt library supports %D in XUSERFILESEARCHPATH and XAPPLRESDIR, but this is not documented in X(7). There's almost-appropriate text in the manpage of XtResolvePathname. Brice
Fixed in git for the upcoming xorg-docs 1.5 (X11R7.5) release: commit 2b2cf62524e99075b6c613e38310748e769efddb Author: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@sun.com> Date: Fri Oct 9 22:14:54 2009 -0700 Bug 10274: X(7) manpage doesn't document %D for environment variables https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10274 Reported to Debian by Julian Gilbey (Debian BTS #243597) Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@sun.com> diff --git a/man/general/X.man b/man/general/X.man index 5eebba2..f8f38a1 100644 --- a/man/general/X.man +++ b/man/general/X.man @@ -1060,6 +1060,7 @@ will search for resource files. The default value consists A path template is transformed to a pathname by substituting: .sp .nf + %D => the implementation-specific default path %N => name (basename) being searched for %T => type (dirname) being searched for %S => suffix being searched for @@ -1093,6 +1094,7 @@ $XAPPLRESDIR defaults to \fI$HOME\fP, see below. A path template is transformed to a pathname by substituting: .sp .nf + %D => the implementation-specific default path %N => name (basename) being searched for %T => type (dirname) being searched for %S => suffix being searched for
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