KenH@tharr.UUCP (Ken Harris) (12/05/90)
We use a third party DECwindow application and would like to use our SUN SparcStations as X-servers for it. Configuration is MV3900, VMS 5.3 with MultiNet (UCX) TCP/IP transport to SUN SparcStation 1 with SUN OpenWindows. It nearly works... windows pop up, the mouse works, window info changes... but we keep getting the following error repeating on the VAX: X error event received from server: BadName - font or color does not exist Failed request major op code 45 (X_OpenFont) . . . %XLIB-E-ERROREVENT, error event received from server The application supplier does not currently support cross platform working but has assisted by suggesting it is a problem of font naming conventions between DECwindows and other X implementations, ie. DEC use different names. They suggest using the Xset command on the SUN before launching the application: Xset fp pathname to set the font pathname appropriate for our MV3900, but I can't see how I can direct the SUN to look at the VMS filesystem (though we have got MultiNet CLIENT NFS). Any way I assume the SUN would not understand DECW font files. I have tried aliasing fonts on the SUN but still no luck. We are not (yet) Xperts and do not (yet) have the DECW or OpenWindows programming manuals. Do any Xperts have any experience with or solutions to these problems. Please try and mail replies to me as my NEWS access is intermittent. I'm new to the net so please check my address in the header, I think it is KenH@tharr.UUCP. Many thanks, Ken. Ken Harris | Tel: +44-256-843191 Smiths Industries Ltd | Fax: +44-256-844434 Basingstoke, RG22 6HP, UK. | PSI: 234225600152::HARRIS-- <-- tharr *free* public access to Usenet in the UK 0234 261804 -->