| 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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