To run Mentor Graphics programs on windows machines in the shop, must first be start an X server. Either X-Win32 or XVision will work. Mentor’s fonts must be included in whichever program is started. They can be added by getting to the config window of either program, find fonts and add s:\mgc_fonts\edgfonts to the list. If these fonts were not already there, you will need to restart the X server for them to take effect. Also make sure that you are tunnelling your X connection. The easy way to check that X is working properly is to ssh to whichever machine you want to use and run xlogo. This should pop-up a window with an X in it. If it appears, X is working. If not, you need to fix X before proceeding.
On linux or mac machines, open a terminal and run:
xset fp+ tcp/
This will add the fonts for Mentor Graphics. Then, ssh to whichever machine you want to use and run your Mentor programs.
The shop server xfs was set up by running the following commands:
mkdir $MGC_HOME/registry/mgcfonts
$MGC_HOME/bin/mgc_font_collect -p $MGC_HOME/registry/edgfonts
in $MGC_HOME/registry/edgfonts, run mkfontdir
Edit /etc/X11/fs/config and add the above edgfonts directory to the catalogue. I put in the hard path to it, instead of using the environment variable. Also comment out the line, no-listen=tcp, which didn’t allow xfs to listen to tcp ports. Then restart xfs.