<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear Prof. Kokalj and XCryDen Users,</div><div><br></div><div>I tried to open the link </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.xcrysden.org/">http://www.xcrysden.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>but got the following </div><div><br></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; position: static; z-index: auto; "><h1>ERROR</h1><h2>The requested URL could not be retrieved</h2><hr noshade="" size="1px"><p>While trying to retrieve the URL: <a href="http://www.xcrysden.org/">http://www.xcrysden.org/</a></p><p>The following error was encountered:</p><ul><li><strong>Connection to 212.235.213.51 Failed</strong></li></ul><p>The system returned:</p><pre style="font-family: sans-serif; "><i> (113) No route to host</i></pre><p>The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.</p><p>Your cache administrator is <a href="mailto:squid@lanl.gov">squid@lanl.gov</a>. <br clear="all"></p><hr noshade="" size="1px"><address>Generated Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:17:30 GMT by proxyout.lanl.gov (squid)</address></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Is this a problem with the firewall or proxy in our institute?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, </div><div><br></div><div>Jian-Xin Zhu </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Jun 11, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Tone Kokalj wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 09:55 +0200, Gabriele Sclauzero wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Dear users,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> I want to increase the size of the fonts in the xcrysden GUI <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(buttons, menus). I succeeded by specifying a line like this:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">*font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">in the Xcrysden_defaults file. Anyway I'm not completely satisfied of <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the results, since the fonts are bigger but they look as they have a too <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">thin body (I don't remember the technical word to say that...). Where <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">can I learn all the possible options for this *font: definition<br></blockquote><br>That is nothing but the X11 specification of the font and "*" are<br>wildcards. Try the xfontsel. It is an ancient x11 font-selection program<br>with the possibility to set all the fields. Select the font there and<br>paste it to Xcrysden_defaults file.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Is there a possibility to add an antialiasing options, in order to make <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">those fonts to look smoother?<br></blockquote><br>While the new Tk support the antialiased fonts (actually on my system,<br>xcrysden uses antialiased fonts), I don't know if this will work via<br>Xcrysden_defaults file.<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">Another issue which came about after increasing the font size: the <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">default window size happens to be a bit too small to accomodate all the <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">buttons with the larger fonts, so that I have to resize it manually <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">after starting xcrysden. Where and how do I specify my default window size?<br></blockquote><br>If you are referring to xcrysden main-window, I believe there is little<br>you can do: its sizes are hard-coded so as that all "buttons" fits<br>within the panel. Usually this works well with the default font, but<br>when larger font is specified one faces your problem.<br><br>Regards, Tone<br>-- <br>Anton Kokalj<br>J. Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia <br>(tel: +386-1-477-3523 // fax:+386-1-477-3822)<br><br>Please, if possible, avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.<br>See: <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>XCrySDen mailing list<br><a href="mailto:XCrySDen@democritos.it">XCrySDen@democritos.it</a><br>http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/xcrysden<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>--</div><div>################################</div><div>Jian-Xin Zhu, Ph.D</div><div>Theorertical Division, MS B262</div><div>Los Alamos National Laboratory</div><div>Los Alamos, NM 87545</div><div>Phone: (505) 667 2363</div><div>Fax: (505) 665 4063</div><div>Emai: <a href="mailto:jxzhu@lanl.gov">jxzhu@lanl.gov</a></div><div>Email (backup): <a href="mailto:physjxzhu@gmail.com">physjxzhu@gmail.com</a></div><div>URL: <a href="http://theory.lanl.gov">http://theory.lanl.gov</a></div><div>################################</div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>