I use 'ssh -Y -X user@mastersvr'

Works fine for me with that on all X systems where the grey screen 
presents itself.

Otherwise, on my Mac I use KDE and it works just fine in KDE (within 
XDarwin) without the -Y option.


ymmv.

Cheers!

--Chris


>I have similar problems when displaying the jnbSA administration
>console back to my Mac.  9 times out of 10 i get the gray
>screen, the 10th time it works fine.
>
>I do *not* get any font errors.  
>
>This happens when running jnbSA on a red hat 9 box or on the netbackup
>server (master & media server both), a sparc running solaris 9.
>i think i've tried running jnbSA on a red hat 7.3 box too.
>
>NBU 5.1
>
>Anyone else run into this?  know of a solution?
>
>
>On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 03:21:10PM -0500, Austin Murphy wrote:
>  
>
>>Sounds like a either a font problem with X or Java.   Is XFS installed?
>>
>>If you still have problems, you can run the Java client on just about
>>any workstation.  Usually it's preferable to do that anyway.
>>
>>Austin
>>
>>On 3/30/06, Martial Paupe <martial.paupe AT nagra DOT com> wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I have installed NetBackup 5.1 on a Dell PowerEdge 2850. It run on a Red Hat
>>>ES 3.5 platform. The installation of the product was ok, but when I want to
>>>run jnbSA script, I have the following message in the log of jnbSA :
>>>
>>>"Warning: Cannot convert string "
>>>-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct"
>>>
>>>The login's windows appears but it stay gray and I cannot write nothing 
>>>inside
>>>the window.
>>>
>>>Do you could help me please.
>>>
>>>Best regards.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Martial Paupe
>>>IT Department
>>>
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