Unable to start remote xterm session

[tony lawrence]

I am trying to start a remote xterm session using xdmcp on a HP B180L running hp-ux 11.0. The remote device is a laptop running Labf WinaXe Plus V7.0.
The error in /var/dt/Xerrors was:

Warning:

Name: FONTLIST_DEFAULT_TAG_STRING
Class: XmRendition
Conversion failed. Cannot load font.

On the xterm emulator the error reported was;

Error 86: cannot accept '/usr/dt/config/xfonts/C' FontPath Element
SetFontPathElements(6 items)/Change:
1/6:'C:/PROGRA~1/LabF.com/WINAXE~1/FONTS/MISC'
2/6:'C:/PROGRA~1/LabF.com/WINAXE~1/FONTS/75DPI'
3/6:'C:/PROGRA~1/LabF.com/WINAXE~1/FONTS/CDE'
4/6:'C:/Program Files/LabF.com/WinaXe_Plus/WINFONTS'
5/6:'C:/PROGRA~1/LabF.com/WINAXE~1/FONTS/OPWN'
6/6:'/etc/dt/config/xfonts/'

Any help in resolving this problem will be appreciated.

[Shannon Petry]

Your program appears to be runing with windows fonts. You will have to configure the windows box as an xfs server, and your HP as a client for this to work.

Much easier would be to get a Linux laptop which supports real X and not cheesy emulation, or use your HP's X that's built in.

Regards,
Shannon

[Mihails Nikitins]

Hi,

Something looks really wrong with fonts substitution. I use local CDE fonts on X-Win32 server without any changes on UNIX clients. You may try to download X-Win32 from http://www.starnet.com

Of course, a better way is to set up LabF correctly (see docs and FAQs). I hope evereything can be tuned on your PC side.

Just my 2 cents.

BR,
Mihails

[Bill Hassell]

fonts are a real problem with Xwindows since each manufacturer supplies their own and they often don't match. The solution is to enable HP-UX as a font server (you can use SAM) and then tell your display servers (the laptop) to use the HP-UX box as a font server. That eliminates any font errors including incorrect sizes.

[Armin Feller]

Hi,

try this to solve the problem:

1) Create a font server one of the HP machine on which 11.0 are running

'xfs -config /usr/newconfig/etc/X11/fs/config -port 7000 -daemon'

2) Add 'tcp/:7000' to fontpath of PC
Xserver

3) Re-start X server on PC

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Armin