The graphical user interface for these programs has been written using the xview toolkit. This used to be included with versions of UNIX from Sun, although it is not now included by default. It is also freely available for other UNIX and GNU/Linux operating systems. If the programs do not start, check the following environment variables.
/usr/openwin${OPENWINHOME}/libDepending on the X11 Window Manager being used, the fonts may be difficult to read in the graphical windows. The tradional Sun Openwindows look appears to use 75 dpi fonts; if your Window manager decides to use 100 dpi fonts then the text layout in graphical windows may be messy even if the correct fonts are installed. In some cases, forcing 75 dpi fonts may not solve the problem, in which case refer to the following (from the CIDD FAQ)
1.1 Fonts do not fit in the buttons. The menus and panels look terrible and some elements are obscured. What is going on and, most importantly, how can I fix it?A: The XView toolkit that CIDD uses as a GUI layer has a relatively ambiguous specification for its default font. It finds a really big font because your X server lists big fonts first when it sets up the default X font path and XView does not scale the size of the widgets to fit the fonts.
The current, preferred workaround is to add specific Openwindows font specifications into your .Xresources file:
- OpenWindows.MonospaceFont: fixed
- OpenWindows.RegularFont: -b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-12-100-75-75-*-*-iso8859-1
- OpenWindows.BoldFont: -b&h-lucida-bold-r-normal-sans-12-100-75-75-*-*-iso8859-1
or, if lucida sans fonts are not found on your system, try:
- OpenWindows.MonospaceFont: fixed
- OpenWindows.RegularFont: 6x13
- OpenWindows.BoldFont: 6x13bold
For a Mac with minimal fonts installed try:
- OpenWindows.MonospaceFont: fixed
- OpenWindows.RegularFont: times-medium-12
- OpenWindows.BoldFont: times-bold-12
After editing your ~/.Xresources file, merge this into your current resource set by typing
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources