On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:05:02AM +0200, Remco van de Meent wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, David Karlin wrote: > > : I ran gunzip on all the files in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc, then > : ran compress on all the files. Now the are all *.Z files. > : > : Vncserver still barfed looking for fixed (same error msg). BTW, > : I noticed that there actually are some files in that directory > : which have `fixed' in their descriptions. > > Hmm, strange. It worked for me some time ago, I'm pretty sure.
VNC Debian package supports gz fonts since I maintain in. The real problem is that /etc/X11/XF86Config contains font dirs that are not existant. Either install the missing fonts or use $fontpath= "/usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/misc" and add fonts one by one. This will override the value in /etc/X11/XF86Config for VNC only, This is a known bug/limitation, that I need to fix urgently. Normal X server seem to ignore not existing font paths, but VNC breaks. > : I then ran mkfontdir on that directory, and restarted vncserver. > : Still can't open 'fixed'. Is there something like a font server > : that I need to run vncserver? > > Another way is indeed to run the xfs-fontserver. In /etc/vncserver, you > should define this one: > $cmd .= " -fp tcp/localhost:7100"; This is not necessary, see above. Fontserver can be used alsoo, but normal gz fonts should work. I would recommend the original submitter to change the fonts to gz again and run mkfontdir in all subdirectories. (and whatever is needed else). Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
