diff -ruN xfig-3.2.6a.orig/app-defaults/Fig xfig-3.2.6a/app-defaults/Fig
--- xfig-3.2.6a.orig/app-defaults/Fig	2017-01-10 00:27:39.000000000 +0100
+++ xfig-3.2.6a/app-defaults/Fig	2017-03-24 16:22:14.702253419 +0100
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
 
 ! some sample settings you may want to change
 
+! If the following resource is set to false, xfig will use metric units
+! by default.
+Fig.inches:	false
+
 ! The following fixes a problem that some window managers have
 ! with xfig continually resizing itself