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Re: DECWindows fonts questions

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From: Ruslan R. Laishev
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 06:47
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sergius wrote:
> 
> 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$font, ran mkfontdir, added the directory to the fontpath, rehashed
> the fonts.  The applications (I'm particularly interested in doing this
> for DECterm) can see the fonts I installed, but for some reason cannnot
> load them.  I even got an Xterm port for VMS and installed it.  It's
> having the same problem...
	Check out sys$manager:decw$define_lang.com:
SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR]DECW$DEFINE_LANG.COM;1

$define/nolog/table=decw$logical_names/exec lang "ru_RU"
$define/nolog/table=decw$logical_names/exec xnl$lang "ru_RU"

> 
> 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?
	In desktop manager you must select "keyboard mapper", checkout:
sys$login:DECW$SMB_KEYBOARD.DAT
keyboard_dialect:       RUSSIAN_PCXALLT

sys$login:DECW$SMB_LANGUAGE.DAT

sm.versionid:   3.0
*xnlLanguage:   ru_RU.ISO8859-5
$

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From: "Ruslan R. Laishev" <RLaishev@DeltaTel.RU>
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Subject: Re: DECWindows fonts questions
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 10:47:56 +0400
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