Hey. I was getting similar problems when running MATLAB over ssh with X11 forwarding (ssh -Y) from glue to my linux box. none of the numpad keys work, none of the enter keys work, delete and backspace dont work, and neither do the home or end keys. i called OIT and they didnt know. any ideas? Thanks.
On Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Christopher Conroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never used Mathematica before this week, and I ran into some serious > difficulties getting it to work over X11 (off WAM or GLUE). > > At first, it would complain on startup that I didn't have the necessary > fonts installed. Apparently, Mathematica uses it's own (non-standard) fonts. > I found a zip of some BDF fonts which I added to my local font path by doing > 'xset +fp /home/chris/BDF/', and that stopped the error messages. Except, > when I went to evaluate anything, it would segfault. > > So then I poked around and found this (outdated) OIT help page on the > subject: > http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/topics/applications/mathstat/mathematica/161/ > the xfs -config command produced an error for me, and I also found the > directions a bit unclear (i.e. which machine are they referring to? my > local machine or the glue/wam box I'm currently logged into?) > > Since I needed to get it to work fast for a HW assignment, I simply copied > all the fonts from the path given in the OIT help page to my local machine > and added that location to my font path. From that point on, everything > seemed to work. So, it seems like a decent solution to me. If anyone else > has a better way, let me know. Otherwise, perhaps we should ask OIT to > update the help page? > > P.S. When X11 forwarding an application, turn off numlock as it can > interfere with certain keystrokes (e.g. carriage return) > > -- > Christopher Conroy > -- Neil Sikka
