[comp.soft-sys.andrew] Rediculous Cursors and Icons

KW20HYI0@TWNITRI1.BITNET (12/13/90)

Andrew applications on my site function will but look strange.
I get a horse to pick insets in "arb" and a black ball as
cursor in EZ. The application layer switch in arb shows "a"
while turned on and "c" while turned off. The most serious of
all is that selection items of ZIP palette are "a", "b", "c" ...
Not some explanatory icons. This makes ZIP extremely hard to use.
Is this a problem of incorrect installation, incorrect font
file in X-server, or any thing else?  Thanks for any help.
                Y.Huang

roarbre@idt.unit.no (Roar Brevik) (12/17/90)

In article <Added.UbNnUPG00Ui34Z7k9T@andrew.cmu.edu>, KW20HYI0@TWNITRI1.BITNET writes:

|> Andrew applications on my site function will but look strange.
|> I get a horse to pick insets in "arb" and a black ball as
|> cursor in EZ. The application layer switch in arb shows "a"
|> while turned on and "c" while turned off. The most serious of
|> all is that selection items of ZIP palette are "a", "b", "c" ...
|> Not some explanatory icons. This makes ZIP extremely hard to use.
|> Is this a problem of incorrect installation, incorrect font
|> file in X-server, or any thing else?  Thanks for any help.

We had the same symptoms when we had installed ATK at our site the first time.
The insets were running but X could not use the cursor font(s) that is defined 
in ATK's X11fonts/ .
The solution will possibly be to add this to your ~/.xinitrc file:
xset +fp DESTDIR/X11fonts
(DESTDIR is the path of your installation, e.g., /usr/andrew)

|>                 Y.Huang
 
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