Re: [ccp4bb] Ugly fonts in CCP4i/Mosflm on Mandriva Linux 2008

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Subject: Re: Ugly fonts in CCP4i/Mosflm on Mandriva Linux 2008
From: Tim Gruene tg {- at -} SHELX {- dot -} UNI-AC {- dot -} GWDG {- dot -} DE
Date: 2007-11-08

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From: Jim Pflugrath jim {- dot -} pflugrath {- at -} RIGAKU {- dot -} COM
Date: 2007-11-08

Subject: Re: Ugly fonts in CCP4i/Mosflm on Mandriva Linux 2008
From: P J Briggs p {- dot -} j {- dot -} briggs {- at -} DL {- dot -} AC {- dot -} UK
Date: 2007-11-08

Dear Rob

It is possible to alter the fonts used by CCP4i by going into the
"System Administration" -> "Configure Interface" window in CCP4i, and
scrolling down to the bottom where there is a folder called "Fonts".

This shows you the font sets current defined in the interface, which is
where you will see the strings like
"-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-O-Normal--*-120-*"

You can edit these to reflect something that is available on the system
- I suspect that replacing the word "Adobe" with an asterisk might work,
however I haven't tried this myself (and I don't know how to easily
query the fonts that are available on the system - perhaps some X11 guru
could give some suggestions on this?).

Hope this helps

Peter

CCP4ibb for Neutze Gp. wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> On upgrading our machines to Mandriva Linux 2008 I see
> extremely ugly fonts in CCP4i and Mosflm. It is almost
> impossible to read the job list in CCP4i (see attached
> screen shot). And Mosflm actually crashes with the error:
>
> ** xdl_view error in routine xdl_open_view **
> ** Unable to load *adobe-courier-medium-r*--8* font **
>
> Other ActiveTcl dependent programs are also affected. This
> was never a problem before, only happens with Mandriva
>
> 2008. Even Ubuntu 7.10 works fine (no clever comments
> thanks about switching to an alternative OS, Mandriva 2008
> is other wise outstanding).
>
> As an example, we are running:
> Dell Precision 390, Duo core 6700, nVidia Quadro FX 3450
>
> with correctly configured drivers from nVidia.
>
> Has anyone else seen this, or resolved it? Is an
> alternative ActiveTcl version required, and how do I
> implement this? Any advice would be appreciated, thanks.
>
>
> Best wishes, Rob
> _________________________________________________
>
> Rob Horsefield Ph.D.
>
>
> rob@chem.gu.se www.csb.gu.se/rob
>
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> Tel: 00 46 31 78 63936 Mob: 00 46 706 707 871
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Date: 2007-11-08