linux application fonts

[jbroughton]

I am having the problem of different font behavour when transferring applications from windows to linux.  After trying various things without much success I am left with some questions:-

1      The help files in LV 8.2 say that the default font in linux for application, system and dialog is helvetica.  If this is not installed is there any way of finding which font has been chosen by Labview?

2      The 'Tools->Options->Fonts' menu gives a list of fonts that have little relation to the fonts actually installed on the PC, where does this come from?

3      I have tried defining fonts in the .labviewrc file using the "labview.appFont:" parameter.  Is this supposed to become the default font overiding what is is selected in 1?  It apparently has no effect.  

I would be grateful for any information

[RobertoBozzolo]

You should repost this question in the labview forum, as I saw you already did with other items: this board is oriented to LabWindows/CVI and its users.

[Heavy Rail]

Hello,
I've got a similar problem with LabWindows/CVI and Runtime Module for Linux.
We have tried to port our application from Windows to Linux, and the main issue is in that it contains cyrillic letters.
We tried to install Windows fonts or use Linux fonts in our application, but we only see strange symbols instead of cyrillic letters.
Our default system encoding in CentOS 5.2 and Mandriva 2008 is UTF-8, installed fonts supports UTF-8, KOI8-R and CP1251,
but we can't get them to work. Also, it is very strange that newly added Windows fonts could be seen from xfontsel, Gnome and KDE font settings dialogs,
but doesn't appear to be recognized by LabWindows/CVI (when we try to call standard font selection dialogs from our application, no Windows fonts appears)!
Please help us find a way to fix that problem.