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  28     dc:description=" Fixed problem with cleartrig for the Linux clients Investigated and found a work around to font problems between Linux and Sun Met with development/test teams regarding documentation visibility. Also worked out the differences in the documents between builds 1,..."
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  63                         <h3 class="entry-header">CC/CQ on Linux</h3>
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  66                               <ul>
  67   <li>Fixed problem with cleartrig for the Linux clients</li>
  68
  69   <li>Investigated and found a work around to font problems between Linux and Sun</li>
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  71   <li>Met with development/test teams regarding documentation visibility. Also worked out the differences in the documents between builds 1, 2 and 3</li.
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  75                               <h3>Cleartrig and font problems on Linux clients</h3>
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  77 <p>I hit a few problems when attempting to verify proper execution of Clearcase/Clearquest and our WOR integration on Linux machines.</p>
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  79 <h3>Cleartrig problems</h3>
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  81 <p>The first problem was that the Linux installation of Cleartrig (remotely accessible through /cleartrib/bin) was missing execute permissions for group and other. The solution to this was to add execute permissions.</p>
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  83 <h3>Font Problems</h3>
  84
  85 <p>his is running under the assumption that:</p>
  86
  87 <ol>
  88   <li>The user is on a Solaris box and running CDE and</li>
  89
  90   <li>The user is remotely logged into a Linux box (currently only ranlin02 and ranlin03) and displaying back to his/her Solaris machine</li>
  91 </ol>
  92
  93 <p>The user may see dialog boxes with no text or other errors relating to fonts. Since most engineers use Solaris and CDE many X Font Resources are set to fonts only available on CDE supported systems<sup>1</sup>. For example, executing xrdb -q | grep -i font may result in the
  94 following:</p>
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  96 <div class=code><pre>
  97 *Font:             -dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-s*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
  98 *FontList:         -dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-s*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
  99 *labelFontList:    -dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-s*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
 100 ...
 101 </pre></div>
 102
 103 <p>Needless to say these "dt" fonts are not known in the Linux world and this causes Clearcase/Clearquest some problems when running remotely displayed to an X server using such font. The solution is to use more universally acceptable fonts such as fixed. The following set of X Font Resources seems to work:</p>
 104
 105 <div class=code><pre>
 106 *Font:                  fixed
 107 *FontList:              fixed
 108 *labelFontList:         fixed
 109 *buttonFontList:        fixed
 110 *textFontList:          fixed
 111 *DtEditor*textFontList: fixed
 112 *systemFont:            fixed
 113 *XmText*FontList:       fixed
 114 *FontSet:               fixed
 115 *XmTextField*FontList:  fixed
 116 *fontGroup:             Courier
 117 </pre></div>
 118
 119 <p>If you are experiencing problems with X Fonts when running from a Linux machine add the above lines to a file, say ~/.fonts then do</p>
 120
 121 <div class=code><pre>
 122 $ xrdb -m ~/.fonts
 123 </pre></div>
 124
 125 <h4>Notes:</h4>
 126 <ol>
 127   <li><a name="note1"></a>These "dt" fonts are often set into CDE's environment when say using the Style Manager to change your font settings.</li>
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