hassan@acsu.buffalo.edu (scott hassan) (10/31/90)
How do you load fonts onto a NCD X windows server? Everytime I try to load fonts using 'xset +fp fonts; xset fp rehash', the fonts never get loaded. But when using a SUN workstation and using the same commands, it works beautifully. Is there a problem with the NCD servers that doesn't allow for loading of user fonts? Thanks, Scott W. Hassan SUNY at Buffalo Amherst, NY p.s. If anyone knows any information about my problem, please mail directly to me. Thanks.
x-window@uni-paderborn.de (X-Window Betreuung) (11/02/90)
In article <43330@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> hassan@acsu.buffalo.edu (scott hassan) writes:
How do you load fonts onto a NCD X windows server?
Everytime I try to load fonts using 'xset +fp fonts; xset fp rehash',
the fonts never get loaded. But when using a SUN workstation and
using the same commands, it works beautifully.
Is there a problem with the NCD servers that doesn't allow for
loading of user fonts?
Thanks,
Scott W. Hassan
SUNY at Buffalo
Amherst, NY
p.s. If anyone knows any information about my problem, please
mail directly to me. Thanks.
We have no problem loading fonts on our NCD's. There's only one
Problem we ran into: If the fonts are 16-bit compressed, the NCD
doesn't understand them.
Solution: compress the fonts with 12-bit (compress -b 12).
There is another problem: The NCD must have access to the font-path,
i.e. if the fonts are on zeus:/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc the NCD has to
mount zeus:/usr/lib/X11/... on /usr/lib/X11/... OR it must have
tftp-access to the fonts which means that there is no secure tftp (you
can check this by evaluating /etc/inetd.conf . If there is a line with
... tftp -s then there is secure tftp.
Hope this helps
--Swen
----> Swen Thuemmler * X-Betreuung * <swen@uni-paderborn.de> <----mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (11/04/90)
> How do you load fonts onto a NCD X windows server? I don't know, but... > Everytime I try to load fonts using 'xset +fp fonts; xset fp rehash', > the fonts never get loaded. But when using a SUN workstation and > using the same commands, it works beautifully. The font path is interpreted by the *server*. You have to make sure that the string you hand to xset is something that the server can deal with. When running on your Sun, the server interprets the font path as a list of directory names, and it very conveniently happens that the server is using the same filesystem as you are, so everything is deceptively straightforward. > Is there a problem with the NCD servers that doesn't allow for > loading of user fonts? I don't know how NCD boxes get their fonts, but I suspect that you either aren't passing the string in the correct form (perhaps the NCD doesn't use UNIX-style paths for its font path?) or else the NCD has a different filesystem viewpoint from yours (perhaps it gets the fonts from a different machine from the one your directories are on?). > p.s. If anyone knows any information about my problem, please mail > directly to me. Thanks. But you don't give an address. I'm making a guess from the headers, but I'm not too sanguine about the propects for its getting to you.... der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
anoosh@mips.COM (Anoosh Hosseini) (11/06/90)
In article <43330@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, hassan@acsu.buffalo.edu (scott hassan) writes: > How do you load fonts onto a NCD X windows server? > Everytime I try to load fonts using 'xset +fp fonts; xset fp rehash', > the fonts never get loaded. But when using a SUN workstation and > using the same commands, it works beautifully. > Is there a problem with the NCD servers that doesn't allow for > loading of user fonts? > > Thanks, > > Scott W. Hassan > SUNY at Buffalo > Amherst, NY > > p.s. If anyone knows any information about my problem, please > mail directly to me. Thanks. I had this problem too, Our local guru looked at the makefile for compiling the NCD fonts, and it turns out our NCD (Mips) version compiles (bdftosnf) the .bdf file with -p4 option. So after recompiling the .bdf file in question with this option, The NCD was able to read the .snf file and download it. Hope this helps. -anoosh
db@sunbim.be (Danny Backx) (11/07/90)
Subject: Re: NCD fonts References: <9011040546.AA01926@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> Reply-To: db@whitney.UUCP (Danny Backx) Organization: BIM Everberg Belgium mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU writes: >> Is there a problem with the NCD servers that doesn't allow for >> loading of user fonts? > >I don't know how NCD boxes get their fonts, but I suspect that you >either aren't passing the string in the correct form (perhaps the NCD >doesn't use UNIX-style paths for its font path?) or else the NCD has a >different filesystem viewpoint from yours (perhaps it gets the fonts >from a different machine from the one your directories are on?). I do know. We distribute these things. Basically, you can use three methods : NFS, TFTP, and DAP (=DECnet). I'll only go into the NFS. An NCD is an NFS client. Therefore, it has a tiny filesystem inside, which consists of what you mount. In the configuration file, you can put something like : nfs-file-systems = mercator:/home/X11r4 /home/X11r4 mercator:/usr/lib/X11 /usr/lib/X11 mercator:/tmp /tmp which means that you mount 3 directory trees from the NFS server mercator on 'directories' with the same names in the NCD. You can off course use different names. You can also mount partitions from more than one host. Important is that /usr/lib/X11 usually is a symbolic link. The NFS protocol is aware of symbolic links. Therefore, you MUST also mount the partition that the link points to. In my case, /usr/lib/X11 -> /home/X11r4/sun4/usr/lib/X11 Therefore, /home/X11r4 had to be mounted also... Note that an NCD has a diagnostics window, in which you can see the X server's error messages. With the recent NCDware version 2.2, you can have the NCD put this in a file on your favourite NFS server also. (Which is why I mount /tmp.) So, in conclusion: if you want to use a font directory with your NCD, it MUST be accessible through NFS, TFTP, or DAP. Danny Backx BIM Networks System Engineer E-Mail: db@sunbim.be (or uunet!mcsun!ub4b!sunbim!db) Telephone: +32(2)759.59.25 Fax : +32(2)759.47.95 Postal Mail : Danny Backx BIM Kwikstraat 4 3078 Everberg Belgium