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- From: wolf@merlin.mt.att.com (Thomas Wolf)
- Subject: Re: Dumping OW and running X11R5(Was: Speed
- Reply-To: wolf@merlin.mt.att.com
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 12:54:13 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.125413.7374@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
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- In article 92Dec19221053@orangutan.cv.nrao.edu, pmurphy@nrao.edu (Pat Murphy) writes:
- "> ""TP" == Thad Phetteplace x4461 <tdphette@mke.ab.com> writes:
- "> "
- "> "TP> I think all you need to do is copy your openwindows fonts into
- "> "TP> your X11R5 font directory and rebuild your font database. Check
- "> "TP> out the man pages on xlsfonts and bldfamily.
- "> "
- "> "You can alternately add the OW fonts to your X server's font path with
- "> "the "xset fp+" and related commands. I run an X11R5 server, the tvtwm
- "> "window manager, and with this command in the startup scripts all
- "> "non-news OW applications seem to be happy.
- "> "
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- OW used different font files than X11R4 (so the above wouldn't work). Can the
- X11R5 server read OW font files?
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- Just my $.02,
- Tom
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