Hey all. THanks for the help. Yea, for some reason num-lock on messes up matlab over ssh. it works with numlock off. does anyone know why?
On Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Nick Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for pointing out that OIT page. I'd never seen it before. My > approach was always just to copy the fonts from the server and then > include them using xset on the local machine. > > Nick > > Christopher Conroy 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 So then I poked around and found this (outdated) OIT help page on the 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
