fontpath problems (was: Re: found RedHat 5.2 vnc server problem

[Marcus Brinkmann]

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On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 11:43:06AM +0000, James [Wez] Weatherall wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Wade Maxfield wrote:
> >   I guess the moral of the story is to install 100dpi fonts on RedHat 5.2
> > when doing a clean install.  I did not have to change the fonts to a .Z
> > format from a .gz format.
> 
> Or remove the 100dpi path from your font path, which is how I fixed that
> problem.

Every once in a while, I get a bug report from a Debian user about this. I
added some configuration options to the vncserver script, which parses the
XF86Config file and takes the fontpath from there by default.

XFree86 X servers seem to ignore non-existing font directories in the path.
Could Xvnc do the same, please? I will add a check to the script for the
Debian package, but this should really be fixed in Xvnc. In addition, Xvnc's
error message is not very helpful.

Thank you,
Marcus

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