Font changed in CDE application windows

[Sean Davis]

I am using HP-UX 10.20 and have a user who is experiencing a font change in their application windows. All window titles (including an hp-term window) and menu items have changed to cyrillic or greek lettering. Any ideas where I might find the source of this change? I have attached an example of the hpterm window that appears. I've looked in the user's profile and do not find any changes to fonts or languages. I know I can blow the user away and re-build, but would rather find the answer. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

the most likely cause is an X/CDE resource .... or a change in the users font path :

xset -q should show details on the font path and font dirs being used : compare this with an unaffected user ?

CDE / application resources are generally saved in a users $HOME/.dt/sessions/ dir structure so either :

a) interrogate these files (& edit) it'll depending on whether they are being saved in a home or current session as to which dir structure under $HOME/.dt/sessions you go down into....

b) log out of CDE and perform a rm -R $HOME/.dt (you may want to make a backup first)
and see if the problem persists.

c) run xrdb -q (see man page) to see if you can see the resource that's causing this ... again could compare outputs from good/bad user ?

[Alex Glennie]

It's probably also worth checking the $LANG & $LOCALE settings and ensuring /etc/kbdlang is set correctly but if OK for other users .....

stty -a and cs8 settings etc may also be worth comparing ?

[Wodisch]

Hello Sean,

has your user toyed around with "options" of the CDE-login-screen???

Just a guess,
Wodisch

[Sean Davis]

Alex,

Your suggestions pointed me to the source of the problem. I looked through the reports that you suggested and did not see any differences other than font sizes. Upon changing the font size the problem goes away. However, if I want to change back to a font size of (1) the problem comes back. I checked my "good user" and see the same scenario so now I am suspecting the font located on the font server as being the culprit.

Thanks for your help.

Sean