| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
| Total number of notes: | 19516 |
I am having a problem with DECwindows server font loading and I wondered
if anyone knows why this is occuring. For VMS 5.2 DECwindows my font name
wildcarding in certain cases is picking up a DECTECH font instead of a normal
text font. Is there something in the DECwindows installation that would
affect the search order for picking up a font. I specify
'-*-TERMINAL-BOLD-NORMAL--14-*-* but this is picking up
-DEC-TERMINAL-BOLD-R-NORMAL--14-140-75-75-C-8-DEC-DECTECH
instead of
-DEC-TERMINAL-BOLD-R-NORMAL--14-140-75-75-C-8-DEC-ISO8859-1
but only in certain cases on certain nodes and I haven't figured out the cause
of this difference though I believe it is installation or setup dependent. I
know I can be more specific in designating the font but I need to know if
there is a workaround without eliminating the wild carding and why does the
order of picking the font that goes with the wildcard vary - is it due to some
kind of search optimization?
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| 1925.1 | You got what you asked for... | HANNAH::MESSENGER | Bob Messenger | Fri Dec 15 1989 10:21 | 21 |
Re: .0 Since you wild carded the character set encoding, you told the server that you didn't care whether you got a DECTECH font or an ISO Latin 1 font. If it matters, maybe one of the server people can explain why you don't always get the same font. You can still use wild carding, but you need to explicitly specify the character set encoding and character set registry (last two fields). This makes your pattern: -*-Terminal-Bold-*-Normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-1 By the way, there are a couple of mistakes in the font names you gave: you need to say Bold-*-Normal instead of Bold-Normal, and the character set registry for the ISO Latin 1 font is ISO8859, not DEC-ISO8859. I don't think it matters whether you use upper case or mixed case. The terminal font names are given in Appendix D of the Guide to Xlib Programming. -- Bob | |||||