xdmcp font problem

[Jeremy Wilkins]

Hi,

This is more of a workaround then a solution, your linux box is probably
running a local font server. So you can use this to provide the fonts and
probably avoid a crash.

assuming the x font server is only available locally, you'll need to change
it to use the network. below is a link detailing how to do this on linux
mandrake.
http://www.jeremywilkins.freeserve.co.uk/extend/remoteFontServer.html

You then need to tell Xwin to use that font server, by adding "-fp
tcp/<machinename>:7100" without the quotes to the command line, eg.

Xwin -query computerA -fp tcp/computerA:7100 -fullscreen

Hope this helps

Jeb

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lars Jensen" <jensen@physics.unr.edu>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 11:04 PM
Subject: xdmcp font problem


> When I connect to a remote Linux box from my cygwin/xfree PC, and run
> abiword through the connection, abiword crashes complaining that
>
> "cannot add fonts to the X font path"
>
> Then Abiwork crashes.
>
> I have 75dpi, 100dpi and scalable font (Xfscl) installed on the
> Cygwin/xfree system.
>
> This does not happen when I login from the console on the linux box and
> run abiword on the linux box, so the problem is not on the linux box.
> Also this does not happen when I login with xdmcp to the linux box from
> another linux box, and run abiword remotely.
>
> Any ideas how I might fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> Lars.
>
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