Beginning with HP/UX version 10.20, standard fonts used for CDE (Common Desktop Environment), the graphic UNIX user interface, are no longer used. When MacX (any version) attempts to connect to a UNIX workstation with XDMCP preferences set to a host running CDE, with other than the original standard fonts, some or all of the fields normally present in the login dialog box may either appear as blank rectangles, or not at all. These fonts need to be available to MacX before the dialog will appear as it should.
Below are two options to workaround this, you need to decide to use one of them:
- Obtain the fonts from the host system or its vendor in .snf ..bdf formats, add them to the MacX fonts directory, and use the /Edit/Fonts/AddŠ UpdateŠ functionality to make them locally available.
- Turn on X11 font services on the host workstation and use the /Edit/Fonts/Font Servers to add the host as an X11 Font Server to MacX.