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PREREQUISITES

Development libraries and headers:

libX11 (including libXinerama, libXt, libXpm) libXm (Motif 2.3 or newer)

Tools:

C99 compliant C compiler, SysVR4 compatible make, awk and sed

BUILDING AND INSTALLING

If necessary, tweak the target platform specific makefile, Makefile.$(uname), in the mf sub-directory, e.g. to change installation prefix and whether to enable Xft fonts. If no target specific Makefile exists, try "generic".

Run make in the top-level directory. When build process finishes, run "make install" as root.

INSTALLATION NOTES

File Types

XFile includes file type definitions for common file types. The default database file is installed in PREFIX/share/xfile/types. XFile will also look for type definitions (files with .db suffix) in $HOME/.xfile/types. The database format is plain text, typical Unix "RC" syntax. See xfile(1) manual and the included database file for syntax description and examples.

The default database makes use of several predefined variables: terminal, textEditor, webBrowser, imageViewer, imageEditor, audioPlayer, videoPlayer. These may be set in user's .Xresources (see xfile(1) FILE TYPE DATABASE section on variable expansion) to accommodate the environment, without modifying the database (e.g. XFile.variables.terminal: xterm -e).

The addon directory in the distribution tarball contains some additional type definitions and icons.

Fonts

XFile uses different fonts to highlight properties of certain files and menu elements, appropriate renditions are predefined in the included app-defaults file. In case of inappropriate font type or size, following renditions need to be overridden in .Xresources:

variable: Default variable width font (used to render most GUI elements) fixed: Fixed width font directory: Directory labels (variable is used by default) regular: Regular file labels (variable is used by default) symlink: Symbolic links (italic is used by default) special: Special files (pipes, devices, etc.) (bold is used by default)

All of the renditions above are defined with Helvetica or Liberation fonts, depending on whether Xft specific app-defaults is installed.

See also: XmRenderTable(3)