Subject: Re: remote usage of abiword
From: Robert Sievers (bob@abisource.com)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2000 - 10:46:59 CST
At 10:53 AM 3/30/00 -0500, Joshua Friedman wrote:
>Hi,
>I was wondering what I have to do to get abi to run remotly (by setting
>the DISPLAY value) we get error messages when we try to do this
>Thanks
Besides the xhost and set DISPLAY commands which you are used to, AbiWord
requires that both itself and the X server know where the fonts are.
This means you will need to set two parameters manually. First, the
environment variable ABISUTE_HOME needs to be set to the directory where
AbiWord has been installed.
Second, the path to AbiWord's fonts should be added to the X server's
font path. Something like "xset fp+ /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts" (or
"xset fp+ /usr/share/abisuite/fonts" for the RPM or DEB) will usually
do the trick.
If you do a lot of remote use, you can add the ABISUITE_HOME variable
to a login script, and permanantly add AbiWord's font directory to
your X server path. Then you should be able to run any AbiWord
binary from any location as needed.
Robert Sievers
Open Source Evangelist
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