[CDE on RHEL 9.1 / Centos 9] - How to change fonts

[Bernard]

I sucessfully installed CDE on Centos9 Steam / RHEL 9.1 using the rpm package from https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/nzieses/CDE/epel-8-x86_64/01691395-cdesktopenv/cdesktopenv-2.3.2-0.x86_64.rpm but cant' find the way to modify ugly bold font used by default. Is there a way under a config file or other ?

In the style manager, we can change size but that' all

[Roger Brown]

I have published a set of 2.5.1 rpms for Centos9
https://sourceforge.net/projects/rhubarb-pi/files/centos/9/

The dtlogin-service rpm provides the systemd service script for login at boot

Although I don't know how to change to font specifically, the good news is there should be lots of documentation regarding how to configure CDE itself, for example

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/806-1364/6jalgb58n/index.html

[Trung Le]

Nice job keeping all RPMs up to date. Wondering if you could also build for the ppc64le platform too?

[Bernard]

Thank you, i successfully installed the package on CentOS 9 Stream but after logout / restart, there is no CDE entry in the Graphic env desktop chooser. You have to manually create a cde.desktop in usr/share/xsessions to achieve it.

cde.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=CDE
Comment=Use this session to boot into the Common Desktop Environment
Keywords=Common Desktop Environment
Exec=/usr/dt/bin/Xsession
Icon=Dtlogo.pm
Type=Application

[Roger Brown]

The dtlogin-service is designed to be the replacment login manager https://sourceforge.net/p/rhubarb-pi/wiki/pkg-dtlogin/

and is enabled on Centos with

$ sudo systemctl enable dtlogin
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/dtlogin.service.

This will then start the dtlogin on reboot.

[Bernard]

sorry but in my case it doesn't work (fresh install of latest centos9stream on vm), then

sudo yum --nogpgcheck localinstall cdesktop*
sudo yum --nogpgcheck localinstall dtlogin*

with the rpm files you kindly provided

After that, the previous command you mentionned said dtlogin is already enabled and symlink exists but even with, no CDE line appears on the interface chooser at startup and I have to manualy create the cde.desktop file to see it

[Bernard]

I also found this interesting blog but unfortunatly, the paths don't match and the scripts fails

[Bernard]

found a workaroud (maybe a bit dirty)

make a backup of usr/dt/etc/cde/fontaliases/fonts.alias file
edit then /usr/dt/etc/cde/fontaliases/fonts.alias
from lines 1 around 450 (-dt-interface****), remove all lines having "serif" to only keep "sans"
save change and reboot