We've installed SRSS 4.1 on a test machine and have been having display problems with older Openlook applications. For example, if we open up a 4.1 Sunray session, ssh into a Solaris 8 box and launch a command tool (cmdtool) it is completely unusable as it displays only gibberish characters.
The problem appears to be related to the Xnewt font path which defaults to: /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/,/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11/lib/X11/ fonts/F3bitmaps/,/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr /X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ If we modify this by removing the ".../Type1/sun" directories and swapping the order of the 75 and 100 dpi fonts then our Openlook apps display properly: /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/,/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11/lib/X11/ fonts/F3bitmaps/,/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr /X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ Speculating, we're thinking that the Type1/sun fonts may be Postscript fonts which the Xnewt server doesn't understand due to the lack of display Postscript capability. We did try using the XSun server rather than Xnewt, but this caused other issues with the Sun keyboard "Back/Front" and "Copy/Paste" keys not working properly. We realize that Openlook has been deprecated in Solaris 10, but Sun has always prided itself on maintaining backwards compatibility. Until we get rid of all of our Solaris 8 machines this is a show stopper for us. Has anyone else run into font related issues with SRSS 4.1? How would one specify a font path for Xnewt, and would this be a good idea? Thanks for any assistance you can provide. ================================================================= Sean Walmsley sean at fpp . nuclearsafetysolutions dot com _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
