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From: hansen@scr.slb.COM (Ove Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: DECWindows fonts
Message-ID: <9103131843.AA08142@SLCS.SLB.COM>
Date: 13 Mar 91 18:43:22 GMT
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How can I get my Sun Sparcstation 1 running OpenWindows to use DECWindows fonts? I believe the opposite question has been asked before, unfortunately I didn't save the answers that came in.

To summarise: I have a Sparcstation 1 running OpenWindows, and would like to use the DECWindows applications located on a VAX 6410. DECW$clock pops up as it should on my Sparcstation, but I get the following warning:

       X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-MENU-MEDIUM-R-Normal--*-120-
*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontList, using fixed font

The Bookreader doesn't even start up but crashes giving the following error message:

X Error event received: BadName - font or color name does not exist
 
From reading the answers to previously asked questions I believe the solution is to transfer the fonts and compile them. Only problem is: I don't know how to! Can anyone help me? 

Another problem is the DECWindows Session Manager, which messes up the colours on my Sparcstation screen and turns the keyclick on. Silly. Any solutions? (except for not using it?)

Another problem I have is with the UNIRAS X11 driver (version 6). Uniras hasn't been able to help me so I won't be surprised if nobody else can. The problem is: when the application runs on a (any) Sun a window opens and the Uniras graphics is displayed as it should. When the application runs on the VAX and tries to display on the Sparcstation, it crashes, giving:

Illegal unit size: 8 found in routine: _normalizeimagebits
%XLIB-F-LIBABORT, xlib fatal error
%TRACE-F-TRACEBACK, symbolic stack dump follows

Running the application on the VAX and displaying it on a Mac running MacX or eXodus works without any problems. Is there anyone who has any idea what causes the program to crash?

If anyone should know the answer to any of my question please e-mail me at the e-mail address below. 

To finish off - since so many people seem to hate MacX and I happened to mention it earlier - here's what an excited user (who now is a MacX fan!) sent me a few days ago, after I taught him how to start up DECWindows applications:

> 	X really does bring a whole lot of new possibilties - 
>	I've been browsing SUN files over NFS using FileView
>	running on the VAX and displaying results on my MAC (!)

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