🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1132@redford.UUCP> bill@redford.UUCP (Bill Poitras(X258)) writes:
>In article <99199@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> guerra@cae.llnl.gov (Frank M. Guerra) writes:
>>I've been waiting for someone to beg the question on why running an Open Look
>>application under twm, or anything but olwm fails.  It always complains about 
>>certain fonts not being found.  Okay, so someone figures that the .ff fonts in
>>/usr/openwin/lib/fonts need to be converted to .snf in order to be recognized.
>
>I have never had problems running OpenLook application under the xnews
>server and twm.  The window manager doesn't have anything to do with
>fonts, that the server's problem.  Now if I read you right I think your
>problem is "Running Open Look apps using server other than XNEWS".
>Insights:
>- Your server doesn't have the the Open Look glyph or cursor fonts.
>- Your server doesn't have the other fonts used by XView programs.
>- If you're running MIT X11R4 (patchlevel 18), your fonts aren't setup right.
>  You need to tell us exactly what messages you see when you try to run
>  Open Look application, so we can give you further insights.
>
>Suggestions:
>- Describe your situation more completely

Okay, I'll do just that...

This is the error message that I am used to seeing:

OPEN LOOK Toolkit Error in application "Xtranslator":  Could not find default OP
EN LOOK button font:
                Resolution: d     Point Size: 12


From what I've learned from others is that window managers don't give a hoot 
about fonts (although olwm does prefer having the Lucida font available.)
What really confused me was the fact that my configuration will use the MIT
R4 server when I am using twm, and the X11/NeWS server when I am running olwm.
It is the server that handles the fonts.  Fine.  As you stated, the xnews server
and twm get along just fine.  I can just change modify things such that I use 
twm while running the X11/NeWS server.  Open Look applications appear no 
problem; no pushpins mind you, but I would expect that.

However, the error message comes up when I am running the MIT R4 server.  I've 
just stated a solution for my Sun, but not for my Mac running MacX.  This is 
obviously a font problem that I have not been able to resolve by setting 
environment or resource variables.  The only lead that I have is to use the 
'convertfont' utility supplied with OpenWindows 2.0 to create BDF format files
of the fonts found in $OPENWINHOME/lib/fonts for use by the R4 server.  I
don't know what to do about the Mac yet, I haven't looked into its font 
structure.  I've you have any suggestions or insights, they would be appreciated.

Frank
fmguerra@llnl.gov