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Subject: Re: More on fonts and RHEL4
From: Thomas Birke <[email protected]>
To: "Chestnut, Ronald P." <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:19:43 +0100
Chestnut, Ronald P. wrote:
The recent post about mods necessary for MEDM were nice. What is the trick for getting the fonts DM2K needs? - I see many messages like:

dm2kInit: unable to load font widgetDM_4, trying default (fixed) instead.

Which magic widget manipulating command must one enter to resolve this?

Ron Chestnut
Late, but...

all the fixed-size dm2k (and medm also IIRC) fonts are usually defined using aliases. There should be some sample fonts.aliases-files with every dm2k-distribution.
Ours e.g. looks like that:

widgetDM_4 -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--8-60-100-100-c-50-iso8859-1
widgetDM_6 -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--8-60-100-100-c-50-iso8859-1
widgetDM_8 -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--9-80-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1
widgetDM_10 -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
widgetDM_12 -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-100-100-100-c-70-iso8859-1
widgetDM_14 -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-110-100-100-c-70-iso8859-1
widgetDM_16 -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-120-100-100-c-90-iso8859-1
widgetDM_18 -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-iso8859-1
widgetDM_20 -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-140-100-100-c-100-iso8859-1
widgetDM_22 -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-170-100-100-c-120-iso8859-1
widgetDM_24 -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-170-100-100-c-120-iso8859-1
widgetDM_30 -adobe-times-medium-r-normal--25-180-100-100-p-125-iso8859-1
widgetDM_36 -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--34-240-100-100-p-176-iso8859-1
widgetDM_40 -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--34-240-100-100-p-182-iso8859-1
widgetDM_48 -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--34-240-100-100-p-182-iso8859-1
widgetDM_60 -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--34-240-100-100-p-182-iso8859-1

  1. Put these 16 lines in a file named "fonts.alias" in an otherwise
     empty directory
  2. enter this directory and issue a "mkfontdir" once in there (it'll
     create a file named fonts.dir with contents "0")
  3. You can now do on of the following (I usually do 2. but 3. could
     be easier to maintain...):
        1. Issue the command "xset fp+ `pwd`"
           This will add the current directory to the font-path *for
           the current session*.
           This setting will be lost after logout!
        2. add the path of your just created font-directory to you
           X-Server-config (/etc/X11/XF86Config or /etc/X11/xorg.conf
           or whatever...)
           to add this setting to the default font-path for every
           session managed by this X-server
        3. Add this directory to your font-server-config (e.g.
           /etc/X11/fs/config), restart the fontserver and use this
           machine as the network-wide font-server for medm/dm2k-fonts

For Windows-based X-Servers, the procedure is about the same, except, that there's usually graphical frontends to configure font-paths, -servers, -aliases and the like...

Hope, it helps,
Thomas

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