[20954] in Athena Bugs
Re: Mathematica problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Oct 22 17:51:16 2002
Message-Id: <200210222151.RAA12445@dit.mit.edu>
To: tcychan@MIT.EDU
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: "[20948] in Athena Bugs"
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:51:14 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
I was told you were the person who reported:
>I am a grad student in the ORC. We have a bunch of Linux computers
>there and I've been trying to ssh into Athena to run Mathematica. I
>can get Mathematica to run, but there is a problem with the fonts
>the file in the
>Mathematica installation:
>
> SystemFiles/FrontEnd/TextResources/X/Specific.tr
>
>look for the line with 'maxForXListFonts' and increase the number max
>number of fonts to something reasonable for today's workstations. for
>example:
>
> @@resource maxForXListFonts
> 9600
>
>in other words, this bug should probably go to athena, since they are
>the only ones who can fix it. i believe this issue is documented on
>wolfram's site.
I increased this number to 9600 as you requested but I have no way of
testing to see if it makes any difference. Please let me know if it
helps- the change should be accessible after the next overnight AFS
propagation.
Alex Prengel
MIT Academic Computing Support Team
