D'oh, that first link was supposed to point to the Ubuntu documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mathematica#head-73b591dadac947c6d1e262199474d896753a5ed3
Sorry, Nick Nick Cummings wrote: > I don't know why exactly it causes a problem, but I know it also causes > a problem in Mathematica. There's actually a page in the Ubuntu > community documentation that talks about a way to change key mapping so > that num-lock won't cause such a problem. > > http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/systems/linux/general/configurenumlock.html > > They also point to a page about the issue on Wolfram's site. > > http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/systems/linux/general/configurenumlock.html > > I have no idea of any of that is useful for Matlab. > > Nick > > Neil Sikka wrote: > >> 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] >> <mailto:[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 So then I poked around and found this (outdated) OIT help page 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 >>
