Font problems running X though Putty [2]

Hi,

I'm running Xmanager 2.0 on my Win2k box, connecting to a Red Hat Advanced Server 3 Linux box. If I use Xstart to connect to the box and run GIMP, everything's OK, but if I run an X server using "Xmanager - Passive" and connect to the same box using PuTTY, when I load GIMP, the fonts are different (they're bigger and don't fit on the screen), even though it's using the same X server. Further, if I connect to a RH 7.2 Linux box, I don't get this problem. Any ideas why it's playing up with RHELAS3?

I've attached two JPEG images of the Gimp loading, through Xstart (gimp_xstart.jpg) and through PuTTY (gimp_putty.jpg). It looks like a font spacing problem?

Cheers,
Neil

Hi Neil,

Your problem is caused due to exporting unsuitable LANG variable for running GIMP. To solve this, you can do one of the followings:


- In PuTTY, export a proper language value into the environment variable 'LANG' and run GIMP.
¿ ex) export LANG=en_US


- Add the Helvetica font into Xmanager Font Directory List as follows:
¿ 1. Download the zip file from the link below:
¿¿¿¿ ¿ http://download.conux.com/files/fonts/helveti10646.zip
¿ 2. Create a new directory.
¿¿¿¿¿ ex) C:\Program Files\NetSarang\Xmanager 2.0\Fonts\Helvetica
¿ 3. Uncompress the file "helveti10646.zip" into the new directory.
¿ 4. Open Xconfig.
¿ 5. Double-click on "Default Profile".
¿ 6. Choose the Font tab and click on the "Add Font Directory..." button.
¿ 7. Open the file "fonts.dir" located in the new directory.
¿ 8. Move down the Helvetica font directory to the bottom of the Font Directory List.
¿ 9. Click OK.


Hope this solve your problem.

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Technical Support

Excellent! that worked a treat.

Thanks for your help!
Neil