[KLUG Members] Running StarOffice 5.2 remotly

[Adam Williams]

>I'm running BSware 7.2 on an Intel box and Mandrake Coorporate Server 
>on a SPARC 20.
>My primary workstation is the sparc box, and I want to run StarOffice 5.2
>from the intel box.
>I've been able to run every X app I've tried, except for the StarOffice. 
>I asked Adam and he told me about using the xset command to tell my
>sparc20 Xserver where to find the fonts on the intel box (that did get
>the AbiWord working, thanx :) ) 

We must to on the right track.

>but the StarOffice still won't come up. 
>When I try to bring it up, the only error I see is 'aborted'.
>Anyone have any ideas?

On the Linux box/host/server (the one with the font server) add the Star 
Office font directories to it's search path.

/etc/X11/fs/config
. . .
catalogue = /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType,
	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID,
	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,
	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,
	/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1,
	/usr/share/abisource/fonts,
        /usr/office60/share/fonts/truetype
. . .

Then logout of X, restart the font server, log back in.  If you restart 
the font server WHILE in X some things may hang.

On the client you can set the font path in /etc/X11/XF86Config,  see the 
FontPath directive.  That way you don't need to run set every time you 
log in.

Hope it helps.