Mandrake 8.1, AbiWord and LTSP 3.0
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Written by Allan Mitch with grateful
assistance from the #ltsp-workshop.
02/10/02

When attempting to run AbiWord from a LTSP terminal,
AbiWord returns the error message:  

   AbiWord could not load the following font or fontset from the 
   X Window System Display server:
   [-*-Times New Roman-regular-r-*...]

   This error could be the result of an incomplete AbiSuite 
   installation, an incompatibiility with your X Window System 
   display server, or a problem comminicating with a remote font 
   server.

This problem results when the X font server can not serve up the fonts
that AbiWord requires.

The solution is to get the Xserver to communicate with the LTSP
terminals through a TCP port so that LTSP terminal can connect to the
X font server (xfs), and to set the X font server's path to find the 
AbiWord fonts.

The solution requires 4 files to be modified:

/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
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Change:  FontPath    "unix/:-1"
To:      FontPath    "tcp/localhost:7100"
This allows the Xserver to open a TCP port to communicate with the
LTSP terminals.

/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs
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Two lines need to be modified
Change:  daemon --check xfs xfs -port -1 -daemon -droppriv -user xfs
To:      daemon --check xfs xfs -port 7100 -daemon -droppriv -user xfs

Change:  daemon --check xfs su xfs -c \"xfs -port -1\" -s /bin/sh
To:      daemon --check xfs su xfs -c \"xfs -port 7100\" -s /bin/sh
This tells the X font server to use the TCP port.

/etc/X11/fs/config
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There should be a line similar to:
catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
perhaps followed by a number of other lines each specifying where
fonts can be found.  At the end of the catalogue list add a comma,
followed by a new line and the text:
/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts

Example:
catalogue = /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:unscaled,
	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk:unscaled,
	/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1,
	/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives,
	/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western,
	/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts

/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf
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Change: USE_XFS = N
To:     USE_XFS = Y
Usually this line is found in the [Default] section.

Restart the X font server using the commands:
service xfs stop
service xfs start
If successful a message will be returned saying "OK".

Restart your LTSP terminal.  AbiWord should work now.