[X2Go-Dev] Bug#108: Missing fonts in X application

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Mon Apr 15 19:38:40 CEST 2013


On 01/23/2013 04:09 AM, Stefan Baur wrote:
> Am 23.01.2013 09:53, schrieb Stephane Mutz:
>
>> Issue: One of our CAD application displays unreadable text. When trying
>> to select another font, only one is available. xlsfonts also reports only a
>> few fonts. The application works fine locallyor when using a Linux X2go
>> client
>> and xlsfonts shows a long list of fonts.
>>
>> How to solve: Install the 'font' directory from the VcXsrv mainline
>> package.
>> After that, the application shows readable text and provides a large
>> selection
>> of alternative fonts.
>>
>> I think it would be good to bring the Windows and Linux client closer by
>> shipping
>> a more complete VcXsrv with it or at least offering the option.
>
> This reminds me of an issue with NoMachine's NX Client.  I'm not sure if they
> still do so, but they used to offer separate font packages for download on the
> same page as their Windows client.  The note next to them said that you'd only
> need them for really old X applications that require client-side fonts; all
> modern applications would use server-side fonts and work fine without these
> extra packages.
>
> Out of curiosity, how old is your application?  Maybe there is a way to make
> it work with server-side fonts?
>
> -Stefan

Looks like they still do:

http://www.nomachine.com/download-client-windows.php

And so it looks like we need to do the same to support these old X programs.


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