OmniBack

[Rumen Ginev]

I have OmniBack II A.02.55 installed on D280 with HP-UX 10.20.
When I use X-client Reflection-X (under Windows) xomni runs perfectly. But when I try to start it in X-window under Linux all I recieve is "Memory fault(coredump)".
Other X-application (sam, xstm, xterm, xclock,...) runs with no problems. So DISPLAY is correctly specified and I have granted access to the Linux' X server.
I don't feel like using MS Windows any more, so any help on how to make OmniBack running will be highly appreciated.

Best regards,

Rumen

[Stefan Farrelly]

Try specifing a color depth of 16bpp on Linux and see if that works.

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

First thing I'd check is the number of colours : if not 256 then make it so, i'm sure the old omniback gui was built to require the standard Xservers 256 colors and would core on PC's if this werenot the case, i suspect linux will be similar and using only 256. Besides you'd never see any gui windows ?

This sounds daft but I'm wondering if its all down to fonts ? Do you see any such errors in the users sessionlogs (if they exist in linux/the window manager you are using) or try looking for the Xservers log file . man X should tell where it is on linux.

It maybe worth your while setting up a font server on the hp box and point your linux box to use that. see man xfs or check the forums search facility : search for font server xfs, should do the trick.

Basically CDE comes with a set of standard fonts .... dt-interface, if the problems what I think it is (I've seen it before with Reflections and Exceed remote xomni sessions) if xomni can't resolve the correct font it coredumped : try a strings core ? more : any clues ?

[Tom Danzig]

You may need to download and install the 100DPI X font set for your Linux distribution. I had to do this with RH 6.1 to get Omniback GUI to work.