OpenWindows questions (remote windows, fonts)
Harvey Richardson
harvey at physics.heriot-watt.ac.uk
Wed Mar 20 04:33:00 AEST 1991
I have a couple of OpenWindows questions: I am new to X so hope these are
not too trivial.
1) Opening remote windows.
I have two machines: vulcan (4/260, OS 4.0.3) and photon (4/110, OS 4.0.3)
which both mount /usr/openwin from abacus (4/65, OS 4.1).
I want to run fire up a window on vulcan from a client running on abacus.
( photon% setenv DISPLAY vulcan:0
photon% xclient )
Now I have used xauth to extract the entries for the remote machine
in each case and merged these entries into the remote .Xauthority
files.
When I first do this all is fine and I can fire up the remote window.
However when I next run /usr/openwin/bin/openwin on vulcan the
key in the .Xauthority file is changed and of course I can then
no longer contact the X server.
Why this is happening?
2) Fonts.
I use two screen types: a high-res mono and a colour screen. On the
mono screen all the clients use a font which is too small for me
to read. (I presume the fonts are scaled by pixel size.)
Can I,
a) globally change the default font (like DEFAULT_FONT in sunview)
b) change the font used by any tool (ie shell tool).
Any help much appreciated.
Harvey Richardson
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