Font error for Networker

[Brian Willis]

When trying to display Legato Networker on a Linux or Cygwin machine over ssh from a HPUX server running 11.11. When I run the nwrecover command, I get an error. Nwadmin works fine. This all happened after we upgraded networker. Here is the error:

$nwrecover
nwrecover:
The font set specified for the browser windows is unavailable.
Please correct the 'BrowserFontList:' resource in X resources.
Font sets have the format ; : .
More information is available in the X11 documentation.

I think this is the resource file in question:

In file /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Networker:
!! Browser fonts
Networker*BrowserFont: -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-75-75-*-*-iso8859-1
Networker*BrowserFontSet:
-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-75-75-*-*-iso8859-1,-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1;:

Do the X resource files get read every time an app is started? Do I need to implicitly define this font? If I do, is there any service I need to restart?

[Rick Garland]

Do you have the font server running?

Here is a previous post.
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=22461

Lots of hits when you do search for "font server"

[Brian Willis]

We are not running a xfs server. We never did before. Wouldn't I need to fix the font server on the machine displaying the window?

[Rick Garland]

You indicate that it is being serverd from HPUX server.

It may be that the fonts have changed with the upgrade - in which case serve out the fonts the NW may be using.

[Brian Willis]

Is it possible then to redefine the font so I don't have to configure a font server?

[Rick Garland]

Not sure how you would that in Legato. Also, don't know what the font was to begin with.

Running the xfs (font server) process is benign. Has no appreciable impact or overhead.