CDE includes a small set of fonts and font aliases that are not part of the standard MIT X distribution. In order for CDE to function correctly, these fonts must be made available to X-servers (X-Terminals) displaying CDE.

RESOLUTION The simple solution to this problem involves configuring and running a font-server on the system that is running CDE and forcing the font server into the X-Server (X-Terminal) font-path.

To do this a few things are required:

1. The font server needs to be configured to include the CDE fonts in its catalog
   EDIT: /etc/X11/fs/config
   Append /usr/dt/config/xfonts/C to the end of the "catalogue = ..." line
   EDIT: /etc/rc.config.d/xfs
   Set the following variable: RUN_X_FONT_SERVER=1
   EXECUTE: /sbin/init.d/xfs start
   If the font-server is already running, kill it and restart it.

2. Force CDE to add the font-server to the X-Server font-path by editing the Xsetup file. (NOTE: This steps REQUIRES the IP address of the CDE session server. You can get this information by running: nslookup `hostname`.)
   COPY: /usr/dt/config/Xsetup to /etc/dt/config/Xsetup
   EDIT: /etc/dt/config/Xsetup
   Add the following line to /etc/dt/config/Xsetup replacing "IPADDRESS" with the IP address of the server as returned from "nslookup `hostname`":
   $XDIR/xset fp+ tcp/IPADDRESS:7000 1>/dev/null

ACTION For further information please contact Hummingbird Technical Support.