[ale] AIX and Linux

[Eric Z. Ayers]

Jonathan,

you should be able to find a font named something like erg14.pcf
somewhere on the AIX box.  You need to copy this file, add this into
one of your X11 font directories (in your X server font path), and run 
mkfontdir.  Then you have to either restart your x server or run some 
sort of command like 'xset -fp rehash ' (I don't remember exactly.),
or restart the font server.

Once you get that working, you'll probably also need to find the font for
-*-roman-medium-r-normal--8-50-100-100-c-*-ISO8859-1., whatever that is.

This will get rid of the two error messages below.  Why you have no
keyboard ops is a mystery.  Maybe it is related to the font problem,
but then again, it might not be.  You may need entries from XKeySymDB
on the AIX box, but that is just a guess.

-Eric.

Jonathan writes:
 > Hello all,
 > 
 > I am trying to work from home and am having problems with an aixterm
 > window and fonts.  I can issue the aixterm -display <ip>:0.0 and the
 > window pops up.  But the problem is that I don't have any keyboard
 > operations in the window and I have to kill the window.  Here is the
 > error messages that I get:
 > 1363-009  aixterm: Cannot open font erg14.
 >         Check path name and permissions.
 > 1363-009  aixterm: Cannot open font
 > -*-roman-medium-r-normal--8-50-100-100-c-*-ISO8859-1.
 > 
 > For the type of work I do, I need the aixterm and not an xterm window. 
 > Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.  I am using KDE, SuSE6.1,
 > kernel 2.2.9 and it is a dial-up connection.  TIA