hansen@scr.slb.COM (Ove Hansen) (03/14/91)
How can I get my Sun Sparcstation 1 running OpenWindows to use DECWindows fonts? I believe the opposite question has been asked before, unfortunately I didn't save the answers that came in.
To summarise: I have a Sparcstation 1 running OpenWindows, and would like to use the DECWindows applications located on a VAX 6410. DECW$clock pops up as it should on my Sparcstation, but I get the following warning:
X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-MENU-MEDIUM-R-Normal--*-120-
*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontList, using fixed font
The Bookreader doesn't even start up but crashes giving the following error message:
X Error event received: BadName - font or color name does not exist
From reading the answers to previously asked questions I believe the solution is to transfer the fonts and compile them. Only problem is: I don't know how to! Can anyone help me?
Another problem is the DECWindows Session Manager, which messes up the colours on my Sparcstation screen and turns the keyclick on. Silly. Any solutions? (except for not using it?)
Another problem I have is with the UNIRAS X11 driver (version 6). Uniras hasn't been able to help me so I won't be surprised if nobody else can. The problem is: when the application runs on a (any) Sun a window opens and the Uniras graphics is displayed as it should. When the application runs on the VAX and tries to display on the Sparcstation, it crashes, giving:
Illegal unit size: 8 found in routine: _normalizeimagebits
%XLIB-F-LIBABORT, xlib fatal error
%TRACE-F-TRACEBACK, symbolic stack dump follows
Running the application on the VAX and displaying it on a Mac running MacX or eXodus works without any problems. Is there anyone who has any idea what causes the program to crash?
If anyone should know the answer to any of my question please e-mail me at the e-mail address below.
To finish off - since so many people seem to hate MacX and I happened to mention it earlier - here's what an excited user (who now is a MacX fan!) sent me a few days ago, after I taught him how to start up DECWindows applications:
> X really does bring a whole lot of new possibilties -
> I've been browsing SUN files over NFS using FileView
> running on the VAX and displaying results on my MAC (!)
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*******************************************************************************alfredo@cca.pue.udlap.mx (Alfredo de Regil) (03/14/91)
About the fonts problem you mentioned, when I was in your situation,
I added the following fonts to the Synonyms.list file (with current directory
"/usr/openwin/lib/fonts"):
(-bigelow & holmes-menu-medium-r-normal--13-100-100-100-p-77-iso8859-1) /Helvetica-Bold _FontDirectorySYN
(-bigelow & holmes-menu-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-p-92-iso8859-1) /Helvetica-Bold _FontDirectorySYN
And, I rebuild the file running "/usr/openwin/bin/bldfamily"
That's what I can tell you.
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/\ _|_ \____________ alfredo@udlapvmsklee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) (03/14/91)
In article <9103131843.AA08142@SLCS.SLB.COM>, hansen@scr.slb.COM (Ove Hansen) writes: |> How can I get my Sun Sparcstation 1 running OpenWindows to use DECWindows fonts? The easy solution to your problem is to get the DECwindows fonts.alias file from export.lcs.mit.edu. This allows DECwindows applications to run on any server supporting the MIT X11R4 fonts. -- Ken Lee DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif. Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee
dob@inel.GOV (Dave Brooks) (03/15/91)
From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Date: 14 Mar 91 01:00:43 GMT Reply-To: klee@wsl.dec.com Organization: DEC Western Software Laboratory In article <9103131843.AA08142@SLCS.SLB.COM>, hansen@scr.slb.COM (Ove Hansen) writes: |> How can I get my Sun Sparcstation 1 running OpenWindows to use DECWindows fonts? The easy solution to your problem is to get the DECwindows fonts.alias file from export.lcs.mit.edu. This allows DECwindows applications to run on any server supporting the MIT X11R4 fonts. -- Ken Lee DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif. Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee regretably, OpenWindows uses an entirely different scheme than fonts.alias and freinds. i recently tried 'decoding' their font scheme, and can truly say that it's quite different. of course, the decwindows fonts.alias file is a good starting place. I'd imagine that anyone who can provide 'patches' to one or more of the files listed below (perhaps the directory will be different) will be doing a great public service. regards, dlb -rw-r--r-- 1 root 10967 Feb 28 15:20 /usr/windows/openwin2/lib/fonts/Compat.list -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 39599 Feb 28 15:32 /usr/windows/openwin2/lib/fonts/Families.list -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 53396 Feb 28 15:21 /usr/windows/openwin2/lib/fonts/Synonyms.list [no, that's not my signature! this is:] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David L. Brooks Idaho National Engineering Lab. INTERNET: dob@INEL.GOV POB 1625 MS 2603 Phone: (208) 526-0826 Idaho Falls, Id. 83415 FAX: (208) 526-9936 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------