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From: grahamd@otc.otca.oz.au (Graham Dumpleton)
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Subject: Re: Andrew with OpenWindows
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Date: 2 Aug 90 00:52:21 GMT
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Excerpts from info-andrew: 1-Aug-90 Andrew with OpenWindows Gordon
Edwards@tut.cis.o (630)


> Does anyone use Andrew with OpenWindows (V2.0)?  And, how did you get the 
> fonts to work correctly?


We don't use OpenWindows regularly but I did convert the Andrew fonts to
OpenWindows fonts.

Firstly you have to start from bdf fonts; ie. convert Andrew fonts to
bdf fonts. Then use the OpenWindows program called convertfont to
convert the bdf fonts to OpenWindows fonts, how to do this is described
in the manual page for the program. Now this gives you a set of
OpenWindows fonts, but you still need to do an equivalent of a
mkfontdir, the only problem is that they do not seem to supply a program
to do it; or I couldn't find one. Anyway after a bit of mucking around I
found that the following worked.

cat fonts.dir | awk '{printf("/%s /%s _FontDirectorySYN\n",$2, $1) }' >
Compat.list
cat fonts.alias | awk '{printf("/%s /%s _FontDirectorySYN\n",$1,$2) }' >
Synonyms.list
ed Compat.list << !
1d
w
q
!
/usr/local/openwin/bin/bldfamily

Where fonts.dir and fonts.alias came from running mkfontdir on the snf
files used by a MIT X server.

We put all the resulting fonts and the list files in
/usr/andrew/XNeWSfonts and do a

xset +fp /usr/andrew/XNeWSfonts

before running any Andrew programs.

One other thing I noticed was that we couldn't use twm as a window
manager as the menus wouldn't come up for Andrew applications, instead
we use olwm and specify the following resources for it

OpenWindows.SetInput:           followmouse
OpenWindows.FocusLenience:      true

Hope this info is of use.

Graham Dumpleton. (grahamd@otc.otca.oz.au)