vnc on sunos 4.1.4 with openwindows fonts (ie bldfamily not mkfon tdir)

McGlashan, Jim jim.mcglashan "at" royalusa.com
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 21:15:18 +0000


Hello,
	I have VNC running on just fine on my solaris 2.6 boxes and have
built
everything on sunos 4.1.4 the problem is we must use the openwindows
X11/NeWS
server on our suns. You may be able to guess where this is going.
	I continue to have font problems on the 4.1.4 boxes. Suns mkfontdir
looks to be a no-op as it never makes the fonts.dir file.
	The question is has anyone make a patch to run vnc with the
openwindows
fonts.
	My config is as follows:

Sunos 4.1.4 on a Sparc 20
OpenWindows 3.0 with the following patches applied
    100444-76   OpenWindows 3.0: OpenWindows V3.0 Server Patch 3000-124
    100448-03   OpenWindows 3.0: loadmodule Patch
    100452-72   OpenWindows 3.0: XView 3.0 Jumbo Patch
    100478-02   OpenWindows 3.0: xlock patch
    100512-05   OpenWindows 3.0: libXt CTE Jumbo Patch
    100523-24   OpenWindows 3.0: Calendar Manager Patch
    100899-03   OpenWindows 3.0: libX11 patch

	vncserver make the following call.

Xvnc :1 -desktop 'X' -httpd /home/jmcglas/work/vnc/classes -auth
/home/jmcglas/.Xauthority -geometry 1148x876 -rfbwait 120000 -rfbauth
/home/jmcglas/.vnc/passwd -rfbport 5901 -fp /usr/openwin/lib/fonts/ -co
/usr/openwin/lib/rgb

	and produces this log file

$ cat /home/jmcglas/.vnc/darkstar:1.log
16/06/98 13:57:12 Xvnc version 3.3.2
16/06/98 13:57:12 Copyright (C) 1997-8 Olivetti & Oracle Research Laboratory
16/06/98 13:57:12 See http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc for information about VNC
16/06/98 13:57:12 Desktop name 'X' (darkstar:1)
16/06/98 13:57:12 Protocol version supported 3.3
16/06/98 13:57:12 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
16/06/98 13:57:12 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5801
16/06/98 13:57:12   URL http://darkstar:5801
failed to set default font path '/usr/openwin/lib/fonts/'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
+ xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title X Desktop 
Error: Can't open display: darkstar:1

	my xstartup file is only starting a xterm

$ cat /home/jmcglas/.vnc/xstartup
#!/bin/sh -x
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop"

	Any pointers or help would be most welcome.

Jim