http://sarn.org/docs/mathematica/howto.html explains how to handle mathematica fonts. For some reason I thought there was something you needed to run on the local machine to adjust the font path, but these are the instructions I used/amended as I did this. Obviously you need to modify the DISPLAY junk to use the cleaner options in ssh now. - Amy
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Nick Cummings<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Amy Alford <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Nothing stops you from running your window manager and all over X >> forwarding. Once you launch the window manager remotely, the >> forwarding becomes pretty transparent. The menus will launch remote >> software and the xterms they launch will be remote. >> I'm sure someone has a slick way of doing the initial window manager >> launch. > > That's a clever idea. I'll have to try looking into that. > >> >> The font problems with mathematica are resolvable. I used to run >> mathematica off of glue displaying on my dorm room linux box all the >> time. You need to set up font forwarding. In theory, any program X >> forwarded could have font issues if the two computers have different >> fonts installed. > > I've never been clear how to do this right. For Mathematica, one can simply > put a copy of the fonts on the local machine, but it would be a pain to do > that for a lot of software. If you're aware of a decent tutorial on > properly fixing such font issues, I'm all ears. > > In the interim I installed Free NX and have been trying it out with > NoMachine's NX Client. It seems to work pretty well in general. I'm not > clear on how NX works behind the scenes, but it looks like Mathematica is > succeptable to the same font issues as it does over X forwarding. I think > that NX actually forwards compressed X commands, not image data, so this > makes some sense. > > Nick >
