Hi, I recently installed Xvnc on an SGI with IRIX 6.5. it was unable to find the "fixed" font it needs at startup. So I added the font directory with 'fixed' to the fp flag in the vncserver script and this made it a little happier. However, it then complained that it couldn't find the 'cursor' font. This was trickier, as it did not exist on my system. I don't have root on the system, so I had to make a new font directory and placed 'cursor' in this directory and run mkfontdir on it. Here's the weird part. Even though I added this new directory, it didn't recognize the new font unless I put 'fixed' in the same directory then ran 'mkfontdir'. After doing this, Xvnc is happy. Why is this? You may ask, if it works, what do I care, but now I am running an application that quits at startup looking for Helvetica:
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-screen-medium-r-normal--13-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-bold-o-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist) Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont) and I'm wondering if I have to put every font in the world in the same font directory to make them accessible to Xvnc clients. Why can't I have multiple font paths? The font in question does seem to be in $cmd .= " -fp /u1/rcook/lib/fonts/:/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:/usr/lib/X11 /fonts/misc/:/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/:/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/:/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"; jackal 74% grep helvetica /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75*/* ... /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/fonts.dir:helvBO12.pcf.Z -adobe-helvetica-bold-o-normal--12-120-75-75-p-69-iso8859-1 ... Comments are much appreciated. I'm pretty sure I'm missing some important detail... -- Richard Cook Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Bldg-551W Rm-1300, #5, Mail Stop L-661 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA phone (925) 423-9605 (work) fax (925) 424-2477 (opinions expressed herein are mine and not those of LLNL) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
