Installing SoftBench

Using SoftBench on X Terminals and PC X Servers

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D Using SoftBench on X Terminals

and PC X Servers

SoftBench requires a number of special fonts to support all its functions.

When you run SoftBench on an HP-UX workstation, your X server ﬁnds

the necessary fonts under the /opt/softbench/fonts directory.

However, if you use an X terminal or PC-based X server software, your

display will not ﬁnd the necessary fonts. SoftBench issues font errors and

warnings to notify you of the problem. You can use SoftBench in this

state, but some text will not display properly. To achieve the optimal

behavior in SoftBench, you must conﬁgure your X terminal or PC X

server so it can ﬁnd the fonts.

The steps required are different for each type of X display. These

instructions cover only X terminals and the Reﬂection® X, Exceed® and

PC-Xware® PC X servers.

There are three approaches:

• Conﬁgure a font server. The X window system supports a concept

called "font servers" that allows X displays to retrieve fonts from a

remote system instead of from a local directory. If you set up a font

server and conﬁgure it to export the fonts found under

/opt/softbench/fonts, then all X displays can access the SoftBench

fonts through the server. See fs(1M) for details.

This approach works for all types of X displays. It can be the

least-effort solution, especially if you already use a font server. The

only conﬁguration needed on the X displays is to specify the location

of the font server.

• Access the font ﬁles across the network as if they were installed

locally. Most X terminals support remote ﬁle access like this. On a PC,

you must create a network drive and conﬁgure the X server to look for

its fonts in the remote directory. This approach works with X

terminals and with Reﬂection X. Exceed and PC-Xware cannot access

the Unix-format X fonts directly from an HP-UX system.

• Install customized font ﬁles onto the PC. This requires the most

conﬁguration effort on each PC, but it may have better performance.