The program twm is "the window manager" that is responsible for the window header that appears on top of terminal windows of xterm. In newer OEL 6 builds, when xterm is launched, the header doesn't appear as twm fails to launch. If you try launching twm, it gives this error and exits to unix prompt:
twm: unable to open fontset "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"
I found a solution on http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1596636.html :
It was reported here for fedora: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509639. The workaround is to execute it with a specific shell variable:
$ DISPLAY=:vnc port number
$ export DISPLAY
$ xhost +
$ LANG=C
$ export LANG
twm &
twm launches fine after this.
twm: unable to open fontset "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"
I found a solution on http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1596636.html :
It was reported here for fedora: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509639. The workaround is to execute it with a specific shell variable:
$ DISPLAY=:vnc port number
$ export DISPLAY
$ xhost +
$ LANG=C
$ export LANG
twm &
twm launches fine after this.
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