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Article #383DECWindows fonts questions
From: sergius
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 20:58
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 20:58
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Greetings, I have a VAXstation 3100 at work (poor old thing!) with DECWindows running on a VAX box. I was trying to install Cyrillic fonts on it... I got the fonts designed for Xwindows in bdf format and converted them to decw$font, ran mkfontdir, added the directory to the fontpath, rehashed the fonts. The applications (I'm particularly interested in doing this for DECterm) can see the fonts I installed, but for some reason cannnot load them. I even got an Xterm port for VMS and installed it. It's having the same problem... I was able to do this in Unix / Xwindows easily, and I thought that DECWindows was supposed to be pretty close to X. What am I doing wrong? I tried disguising my koi8 fonts as iso8859-1 in decw$font_alias.dat file, annd taking the standard fonts directory away from the font path... It sort of worked - the xserver had to choice :). Some Cyrillic characters were still displayed incorrectly. Anyway, that was not a very elegant solution. Another question I had was this: Is it possible to switch keyboard layouts without running xmodmap every time? And/or to change the keyboard layout for a specific application without affecting the other ones? If you had the patience to read this far and have answers my questions, comments, suggestions, please reply by e-mail -- I don't normally read Usenet. Any input will be appreciated. Thanks, Sergei
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