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- From: eddins@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Steven L. Eddins)
- Subject: SUMMARY: x3270 under OpenWindows
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.132232.4806@bert.eecs.uic.edu>
- Summary: Use xset fp after converting the x3270 font
- Keywords: x3270, openwindows, xset
- Organization: EECS Dept., University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:22:32 GMT
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- After an earlier poster explained how to use "convertfont" to build an
- OpenWindowns .fb from the font distributed with x3270, I asked:
-
- >Can you go a step further and help us with the build? I created a .fb
- >font using convertfont. Then I moved the font to my OW fonts
- >directory and ran bldfamily (as suggested by a poster in another
- >group). However, I could not figure out the magic combination of
- >Imake defines to get x3270 to find the new font.
-
- Several people pointed out that my problem wasn't with the build, but
- with my failure to use "xset fp ..." after the font conversion step.
- Buzz Moschetti summed it up pretty well:
-
- >1. mkdir /tmp/fonts
- >2. cp 3270.bdf /tmp/fonts
- >3. cd /tmp/fonts
- >4. convertfont 3270.bdf
- >5. bldfamily
- >6. xset fp+ /tmp/fonts
- >
- >If x3270 still can't find it then there is something in your .Xdefaults
- >that is inhibiting, overriding, or otherwise preventing you from finding
- >the new font. If you building the 3270 font in an existing directory,
- >make sure you run
- > $ xset fp rehash
- >after bldfamily.
-
- Dave Brooks also pointed out that the X Window FAQ is a good source
- for font installation information.
-
- Thanks also to Dev Joneja, Tim Rosmus, and Marc Bouron for their
- responses. (Actually, I accidentally deleted Marc Bouron's response
- before I read it, so I don't know what he said. Sorry, Marc.)
-
- Steve
-
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- Steven L. Eddins Asst. Professor
- eddins@eecs.uic.edu (312) 996-5771 FAX: (312) 413-0024
- University of Illinois at Chicago, EECS Dept. MC 154, Chicago, IL 60680-4348
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