Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!midway!linac!uwm.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!hubcap!gatech!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!unido!pbinfo!pbinfo-n!x-window From: x-window@uni-paderborn.de (X-Window Betreuung) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: NCD fonts Message-ID: Date: 2 Nov 90 13:11:22 GMT References: <43330@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Sender: news@uni-paderborn.de (News Uni-Paderborn) Organization: Uni Paderborn FB 17 Informatik GERMANY Lines: 35 In-Reply-To: hassan@acsu.buffalo.edu's message of 30 Oct 90 17:32:09 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: baldur In article <43330@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> hassan@acsu.buffalo.edu (scott hassan) writes: How do you load fonts onto a NCD X windows server? Everytime I try to load fonts using 'xset +fp fonts; xset fp rehash', the fonts never get loaded. But when using a SUN workstation and using the same commands, it works beautifully. Is there a problem with the NCD servers that doesn't allow for loading of user fonts? Thanks, Scott W. Hassan SUNY at Buffalo Amherst, NY p.s. If anyone knows any information about my problem, please mail directly to me. Thanks. We have no problem loading fonts on our NCD's. There's only one Problem we ran into: If the fonts are 16-bit compressed, the NCD doesn't understand them. Solution: compress the fonts with 12-bit (compress -b 12). There is another problem: The NCD must have access to the font-path, i.e. if the fonts are on zeus:/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc the NCD has to mount zeus:/usr/lib/X11/... on /usr/lib/X11/... OR it must have tftp-access to the fonts which means that there is no secure tftp (you can check this by evaluating /etc/inetd.conf . If there is a line with ... tftp -s then there is secure tftp. Hope this helps --Swen ----> Swen Thuemmler * X-Betreuung * <----