X-window too small for content

[Jaris Detroye]

I am running the Oracle 8 installer on an N4000 using my PC w/Reflections as the terminal. When the x-window Oracle installer starts up the first window just barely shows the buttons at the bottom, they are for the most part cropped off. And, any following windows show no controls at all, they are outside the window.
The windows do not allow resizing.
This was not the case 3 weeks ago, prior to applying the latest Quality Patch bundle. At that time all Oracle installer x-windows worked fine.

Any ideas???

[John Meissner]

did you try changing the text size?

[Alex Glennie]

I suspect it's down to :

a) the addition of a motif patch, try removing it if it's beem installed from the patch bundle. swlist -l fileset | grep -i motif ?

b) down to xfs (font-server) running prior to patch bundle install but xfs is no longer running : ps -ef | grep xfs ?

c) could be down to Xclient or Xwindows patch additions ... less likely

d) something else ;)

[Alex Glennie]

the something else *maybe* the numlock setting : try disabling this via RX-> settings->keyboard->Numlock on

[Jaris Detroye]

I tried applying the latest motif patch PHSS_27232 ... no change.

The xfs server was not running before or after. (We have an application font server using port 7000, it is fine)

And lastly..... there is no way to change the font size on an Oracle install (that i am aware of).

[Alex Glennie]

I thought I said try removing the Motif patch ?

I suggest you raise the issue with Oracle then

and how about the numlock option : fyi there were known issues with this too within Oracle support : used to be detailed at : http://www.orafaq.com/archive/comp.databases.oracle.server/2002/01/18/131116.htm but It's disappeared .... I guess you could try a search on their web site

[Wodisch_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

AFAIK this is a problem of the PC-side X-server. Can you try another one? Like the "XFree4.x" from CygWin (free, from http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ ) or Hummingbird eXceed or even VNC (free, from http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc or even from the HP OpenView Service Internet Portal website)?
Or do you have an older version around? I cannot remember that problem with Reflection/X 7.0 under NT4 or W2K...

FWIW,
Wodisch