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From: stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Running Open Look apps using other than OLWM
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Date: 12 Jun 91 00:31:34 GMT
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In article <99199@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> guerra@cae.llnl.gov (Frank M. Guerra) writes:
>I've been waiting for someone to beg the question on why running an Open Look
>application under twm, or anything but olwm fails.  It always complains about 
>certain fonts not being found.  Okay, so someone figures that the .ff fonts in
>/usr/openwin/lib/fonts need to be converted to .snf in order to be recognized.
>Well, apparently, that's not quite it either.  So, is there any workarounds, or
>is this just the way it is?  I know that certain things like pushpins go away, but
>I would expect that.  Insights anyone?

It works fine for me.  Are you sure you have all the OW fonts?  What error
messages do you get?
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