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- From: BROOKE@LEVA.LEEDS.AC.UK (David Brooke)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Xview fonts for DECwindows
- Message-ID: <9211101634.AA13383@unix.sri.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 10:51:00 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- I am having problems displaying Sun XView applications - for example the
- 'filemgr' application in OpenWindows 3 - on a VMS DECwindows server (VMS
- 5.5-1, DECwindows Motif 1.1). XView applications invariably use XView text
- fonts and the OpenLook cursor and glyph fonts.
-
- There are a number of ways of getting around the absence of the various
- text fonts - font aliases for the server or alternative font choices for
- the client applications (e.g. filemgr -fn fixed ) - but is there any way of
- getting around the lack of the correct cursor font and glyph fonts?
-
- I am getting error messages like:
- XView warning: Cannot load font '-sun-open look cursor-----*-*-*-*-*-*-sunolcurs
- or-1' (Font package)
- XView warning: Unable to find OPEN LOOK cursor font (Cursor package)
- XView warning: invalid object (not a pointer), xv_get
- X Error of failed request: BadFont (invalid Font parameter)
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- Sun recommend getting hold of the .BDF sources for the OpenLook fonts - not
- a big problem since they are part of the MIT X11 distribution - and compiling
- them for the VAXstation. I have tried compiling the OLCURSOR and OLGLYPH* fonts
- into .DECW$FONT format (using the VMS 'FONT' command), creating a
- DECW$FONT_DIRECTORY.DAT file to tie the font filenames to the font names
- and using DECW$UTILS:XSET.EXE to add the directory containing the files to
- the server's font path.
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- All of this appears to work, and DECW$UTILS:XLSFONTS.EXE says that the
- fonts are there, but when I try running an OpenLook application it crashes the
- DECwindows server, with apparently no clue as to what went wrong.
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- Has anyone managed to get any applications using the OpenLook cursor
- font displaying under DECwindows? There is some mention in the .BDF files
- for the fonts of them being 75dpi - but the VAXstation screen is 100dpi.
- Could this be part of the problem?
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-
- David Brooke. brooke@uk.ac.leeds.icf.leva
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- Dept. Of Mechanical Engineering, University Of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, England.
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