Synopsys has changed its Linux GUI in their latest releases. For those using version 2002-05-SP1 or SP2, Design Vision, Prime Time, CoCentric and other tools use the MainWin library. This works fine with Red Hat 7.2, 7.3 (tested) and as I have heard 8.0 (no news about 9.0). However, when using eXceed from a connected Windows machine, they no longer work because of a missing font (-mainwin-ms_sans_serif-medium-o-normal--13-130-75-75-p-70-iso8859-1 found with error logging enabled) . To overcome this, make a font alias and load it with the eXceed configuration tool.
As an example, this is the alias file I have created and used:
Once I had used exceed to connect to linux, but I am a fan of VNC for it's benefit of "unclosing desktop", it's so convienient for me....I also recommand that you should make a try of using VNC, it's really a great stuff, trust me !! :wink: