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Re: X display problem with Star Office 6 help on Linux-Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Jul 8 17:36:42 2002
Message-Id: <200207082136.RAA00825@astrophel.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU, facdev@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "06 Jul 2002 00:42:10 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 17:36:39 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I believe the problem is triggered by /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1;
since my original report, I was able to find this bug report at SunSolve:
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Description
The left panel of the Help screen shows appropriate choices, but the
right has a distorted heading, lots of whitespace, and a few scattered
icons. It occurs on the help menu and buttons for all Staroffice
programs (write, spreadsheet, etc).
Work Around
ulf.stroehler@sun.com 2002-06-25
Disable the fontdirectory for the fontserver.
- Become root
- /usr/sbin/chkfontpath
search for:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1
Now remove the directory from the fontserver configuration file
(/etc/X11/fs/config)
- /usr/sbin/chkfontpath -r /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1
Now restart the fontserver
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart
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I tested this and verified that it makes the problem go away. Also, checking
the catalogue files on astrophel and telharmonium shows this:
athena% diff catalogue.astrophel catalogue.telharmonium
22a23
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID,
38d38
< /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1,
which is consistent. So the question is, can we apply this work-around in the
Athena release? If not, Star Office help won't work on almost all Linux
machines.
Alex
