Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hi Mark,

 

After installing xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi and xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi, you need to add them to the font path using the following command:

xset fp+ /usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/

xset fp+ /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/

 

Regards,

Ibrahim

 

 

Hi Mark,
This sounds like a font problem.    I'm on vacation today
and need to get back to some furniture moving, but I'm attaching
a copy of our fonts.list and colors.list files so you have some
more examples to work from.    The colors are probably fine
with the default, but fonts can be tricky depending on your
linux distribution.    The attached ones work for us from RHEL5,
RHEL6, and from windows systems.

Edm widget layouts assume a standard dpi, so you should use
either 75dpi or 100dpi fonts exclusively in your fonts.list file.
I think the default is 75dpi, which is what we're using.

You should install xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi, or the xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi
depending on which way you go.   You should also install xorg-x11-fonts-misc
and xorg-x11-fonts-truetype as well.

If you're still having trouble, post a copy of your fonts.list file and
any console error msgs and I'll take a look later.

Cheers,
- Bruce

Folks,

 

I am new to edm and am having problems with fonts or colors or something.

 

The problem is that all of the buttons in the edm display appear to be lacking labels and the text entry widgets have no text.  I have attached a screen shot of the edm display showing the problem.

 

Is this due to the font errors, or a color problem, or something else?

 

When I run an edm display from Diamond Light Source I get the following errors repeating from edm in a message window:

 

Cannot find font: [arial-bold-r-10.0]

  Using default window font: [arial-bold-r-12.0]

Cannot find default window font: [arial-bold-r-12.0]

  Using default site font: [helvetica-medium-r-10.0]

 

It appears that it did find my default site font, helvetica-medium-r-10.0.

 

Here are the arial fonts on my system:

 

corvette:aravisGigEApp/op/edl>xlsfonts | grep arial

--arial-bold-i---0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1

--arial-bold-i---0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1

--arial-bold-r---0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1

--arial-bold-r---0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1

--arial-medium-i---0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1

--arial-medium-i---0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1

--arial-medium-r---0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1

--arial-medium-r---0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1

-monotype-arial-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1

-monotype-arial-bold-i-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1

-monotype-arial-bold-i-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1

-monotype-arial-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1

-monotype-arial-bold-r-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1

-monotype-arial-bold-r-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1

-monotype-arial-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1

-monotype-arial-medium-i-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1

-monotype-arial-medium-i-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1

-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1

-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1

-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1

 

I added those fonts to my fonts.list, but I still get the same errors.

 

Thanks,

Mark

 

 

 

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Bruce Hill

Member Technical Staff

SLAC National Accelerator Lab

2575 Sand Hill Road M/S 10

Menlo Park, CA 94025