[Groff] Re: Fw: More comments on groff-1.11a (and earlier versions)

[Larry Jones]

Nelson H. F. Beebe writes:
> 
> DESCRIPTION OF INCORRECT BEHAVIOUR:
> 
> Error: Widget viewport has zero width and/or height
> 
> SUGGESTED FIX [optional]:
> My temporary workaround is to do
> 
> xrdb -merge /usr/local/X11R5/lib/X11/app-defaults/GXditview
> 
> which sets several variables, including this critical one:
> 
> GXditview.height: 840
> 
> The real fix is to have gxditview pick a reasonable default height and
> width for its window. NO X WINDOW SYSTEM PROGRAM SHOULD EVER REQUIRE
> AN APPLICATION DEFAULTS FILE TO BE PRELOADED IN ORDER TO RUN PROPERLY!

The application defaults file doesn't need to be preloaded, but it
*does* need to be somewhere that X can find it.  It looks like you've
put X stuff in /usr/local without bothering to tell X to look for it
there.  Assuming your standard X stuff is in /usr/X11R5, you need to do
something like:

        XFILESEARCHPATH="\
        /usr/X11R5/lib/X11/%L/%T/%N%C%S:\
        /usr/X11R5/lib/X11/%l/%T/%N%C%S:\
        /usr/X11R5/lib/X11/%T/%N%C%S:\
        /usr/X11R5/lib/X11/%L/%T/%N%S:\
        /usr/X11R5/lib/X11/%l/%T/%N%S:\
        /usr/X11R5/lib/X11/%T/%N%S:\
        /usr/local/X11R5/lib/X11/%L/%T/%N%C%S:\
        /usr/local/X11R5/lib/X11/%l/%T/%N%C%S:\
        /usr/local/X11R5/lib/X11/%T/%N%C%S:\
        /usr/local/X11R5/lib/X11/%L/%T/%N%S:\
        /usr/local/X11R5/lib/X11/%l/%T/%N%S:\
        /usr/local/X11R5/lib/X11/%T/%N%S"
        export XFILESEARCHPATH

-Larry Jones

Wow, how existential can you get? -- Hobbes