[X2Go-User] Install Fonts

[Mike DePaulo]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 5:14 AM, Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1 at baur-itcs.de> wrote:
> Am 09.01.2017 um 10:55 schrieb swizz ly:
>> That is, I have a custom made somewhat old application that uses
>> some fonts that x2go doesn't have (even if I install all fonts). When I
>> use the commercial XServer Exceed, then the fonts are displayed
>> correctly, X2Go uses some other fonts instead of the required ones.
>> How can I add the required fonts to X2Go that I have in the other X-Server?
>> I already tryed to copy over the font files to x2go's internal
>> vcxsrv/fonts/... directory, but the xlsfonts command didn't show the new
>> fonts.
>> Any idea? Some hints to install new fonts?
>
> Hmm, on Linux, you have to refresh the font cache/font index after
> installing new fonts.  No idea how that works with VcXsrv thought.
> Pinging Mike#2 ...
>
> -Stefan
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1. I am not an expert on this, but I have never needed to run any sort
of refresh fonts command.
When I encountered a missing font issue, or other users did, merely
installing the additional fonts on the Windows client fixed the issue.
IIRC, this did not fix font issues 100% of the time though.
2. Remember that during the X2Go client for Windows install, there are
4 sets of fonts. Did you install all of them? If not, please try that.
3. Please test out VcXsrv by itself (X2Go not being used) against the
application server with the fonts selected during the VcXsrv install.
Test both X2Go Client's current version:
https://github.com/ArcticaProject/vcxsrv/releases/tag/1.17.0.0-3
And the upstream version:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/
Please let us know if it fixes it.

If neither #2 nor #3 fixes it, then there are other things we can try.

-Mike