[8008] in Athena Bugs
Running EZ menubars under BUGWindows on the DECMIPS.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Thu Aug 22 17:16:48 1991
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1991 17:17:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: info-andrew-bugs+@andrew.cmu.edu, testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
On our DECMIPS platform the pretty little menubar icon that signifies
there are submenus displays as a 'W'.
The reason for it is this:
The name of the font that contains the icon is menu12.pcf.
This file is installed in /usr/andrew/X11fonts/menu12.pcf.
The fonts.dir file says that menu12 maps to menu12.pcf.
But alas, there is a font path element:
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/decwin/75dpi/
which contains a menu12.pcf for -bigelow &
holmes-menu-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-70-iso8859-1
What I think should happen is this:
Since menu12 is mapped to menu12.pcf in fonts.dir in
/usr/andrew/X11Fonts, it should look for the file THERE.
In /usr/lib/X11/fonts/decwin/75dpi/ there is no mapping set between
'menu12' and 'menu12.pcf', so the mapping between menu12.pcf and bibelow
& holmes-menu-medium-r-normal is irrelevant.
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Perhaps the simple way out is for us to rename menu12.fdb to andymenu12.fdb.
Would anyone on either of these two lists care to sit through someone at
the X consortium telling them how I think about the world in the wrong
way? I think this is a bug in the way X searches for files after
determining associations, but I am unwilling to fight about it.
-wdc
