From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051018 Epiphany/1.9.2 Description of problem: After executing "xfontsel", one is confronted with a corrupted application window (see attachment) where buttons are not labeled, etc. In the terminal, the following warning is issued: "Warning: app-defaults file not properly installed." Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-utils-0.99.2-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch "xfontsel". 2. Check application window. 3. Check output in the console window. Actual Results: "xfontsel" application window displayed without correct labels, etc. Expected Results: "xfontsel" application window should be displayed correctly. Additional info: The resource file "/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XFontSel" is present, but "xfontsel" does not see it. After copying it to my local user application defaults directory, "xfontsel" works again as expected.
Created attachment 121863 [details] Screenshot of hosed "xfontsel" application window
The problem is not limited to 'xfontsel' but affects at least all programs which need default resources from xorg-x11-utils (xfontsel, xfd) and org-x11-resutils (editres, viewres). Changes in libraries are causing a search for app-defaults in "wrong" places and nothing now peeks into an "old" %{libdir}/X11/app-defaults/ directory. Placing copies of those resource files in, say, /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/ provides a temporary workaround (but it should be carefuly watched during future updates).
Thanks for the report. Upstream X.Org X11 was installing the app-defaults files to FHS unfriendly locations. It's taken a while to get things fixed, but the X11R7 RC4 release has most if not all of the issues ironed out now. Please upgrade all packages to the latest in rawhide, and the issue should probably be resolved now. Just for documentive purposes, the new proper location for app-defaults files is %{_datadir}/X11/app-defaults which expands to /usr/share/X11/app-defaults normally. Once you've upgraded, please reboot and test any applications that had app-defaults related problems. If the xfontsel problem persists, please update the report with any new details and report back. Thanks again!
Great, "xfontsel" now works without a local copy of "XFontSel".
Thanks for the update. Closing as fixed in rawhide.