Need help with X-windowing fonts (RT <-> DECStation)

young acyoung at rodan.acs.syr.edu
Wed May 30 11:08:36 AEST 1990


	I am trying to get DXTerm running when I remotely log into a DECstation
	from my RT.  I am not very familiar with how all this fonts stuff 
	works so I am throwing it out to the net.  It appears that the required
	fonts just aren't found.

	My questions are:


	1.	who is looking for them?  The DecStation or my RT?
	2.	Does this have anything to do with converting VRM fonts to
		rtx format?  If so how do you figure out the conversion.
		The user guide (RT X-windows) doesn't do a great job at
		explaining how to convert vrm2rtx.
	3.	Do I need to have anything specific in my .Xdefaults file?

	Here is a log of what happens and what errors I get when I log into
	the DECStation and when I run dxterm.

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login: aaron
Password:
Last login: Tue May 29 14:04:32 from sunrise.acs.syr.
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Tue May 29 14:07:45 EDT 1990
etg.ece.syr.edu> csh
csh.Aaron> setenv DISPLAY huey-gw.case.syr.edu:0
csh.Aaron> dxterm
X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-MENU-MEDIUM-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO
8859-1" to type FontList, using fixed font
Can't find font -*-Terminal-*-*-*-*-*-180-*-*-*-*-*-*
Can't find font -*-Terminal-*-*-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-*-*
Can't find font -*-Terminal-Medium-*-Normal-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-*-1
X Protocol error detected by server: parameter not a Font
  Failed request major op code 56 X_ChangeGC
  Failed request minor op code 0 (if applicable)
  ResourceID 0xc15a5ed0 in failed request (if applicable)
  Serial number of failed request 76
  Current serial number in output stream 132


 I realize this means can't find fonts.  but, can anyone point me in the right
 direction?  I'd appreciate it.  Thanks.

 acyoung at sunrise.acs.syr.edu 



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