| Re: IDL and SUSE Linux 11.0 [message #62572] |
Mon, 22 September 2008 10:16  |
C.E. Ordonez
Messages: 10
Registered: May 2004
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David Fanning wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Has anyone run IDL (any version) on a SUSE 11.0 version
> of LINUX? It seems that all widget fonts are totally
> screwed up. My new student intern is not greatly
> impressed with IDL, although I fear this is a SUSE
> font problem, not an IDL problem. Any light you can
> shed will be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
I had this problem initially with IDL 7 and openSUSE 11 (x86_64). ITTVIS
support helped me resolve it with the procedure outline below (taken
from an e-mail the support engineer, Fernando Santoro, sent me).
I must add that after applying package updates for openSUSE 11 from
online repositories, IDL widget fonts behaved "normally" even without
the use of the fix below.
Hope this helps.
-Caesar
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It seems that SUSE 11 is giving to Motif some default fonts that are
working. We don't know why this is happening.
Could you try to select a different font?. For example:
1- Open IDL command line. Type:
a=xfont()
Now you will need to navigate without being able to see the names, but
basically you can search for new fonts to experiment with fonts and pick
a good default.2-
2- Put this in .Xdefaults file that is located in your home directory.
Include in that file the following line:
Idl*fontList: <fontname>
where <fontname> is the font name that you selected in point 1.
If you find difficult to find a font using point 1, could you try to
type the following in your .Xdefault file?:
Idl*fontList: -adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--10-100-75-75-m-60-iso8859-9
Let me know if anything of these works for you. Thank you.
Kind regards,
Fernando Santoro
Technical Support Engineer
ITT Visual Information Solutions
E-mail : support@ittvis.com
Phone: +1-303-413-3920
-----Original Message-----
From: nerdzoo@gmail.com
Sent: 6/27/2008 10:56:43 AM
To: support@rsinc.com
Subject: Re: Incident #: 211489 Installation Problem with openSUSE 11.0
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| Re: IDL and SUSE Linux 11.0 [message #62719 is a reply to message #62572] |
Mon, 22 September 2008 10:51  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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C.E. Ordonez writes:
> I had this problem initially with IDL 7 and openSUSE 11 (x86_64). ITTVIS
> support helped me resolve it with the procedure outline below (taken
> from an e-mail the support engineer, Fernando Santoro, sent me).
>
> I must add that after applying package updates for openSUSE 11 from
> online repositories, IDL widget fonts behaved "normally" even without
> the use of the fix below.
Thanks for this. After modifying my .Xdefaults file in the
way you specify, I do indeed see text on my widgets, thank
goodness. But my system administrator would like very much
to know which package updates you applied to OpenSUSE 11 to
get the fonts to work without this .Xdefaults trick.
Cheers,
David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming (www.dfanning.com)
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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