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Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 16:58:32 -0400
From: sergius <sergius@voicenet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms, fr.comp.os.vms, pl.comp.sys.xwindow,
    relcom.comp.os.unix, relcom.comp.os.vms
Subject: DECWindows fonts questions

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