I would recommend the Nomachine software (client and server) over FreeNX -
much better display.

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Jason <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have tried both XFCE & Gnome via a TightVNC server and the fonts are
> horrible, this occurs on both Debian and Archlinux for me.
>
> I have ttf-dejavu and ttf-bitstream-vera installed and using X
> physically on the server looks fine. It's most noticeable when
> browsing the web with Firefox or using the terminal, in VNC it looks
> horrible but natively all is fine sad
>
> I'm creating my server like this: vncserver :1 -geometry 1280x800
>
> Then I turn off all compression on my Windows client box and run it
> full screen at the native 1280x800 client resolution.
>
> Anyone got any ideas on how to fix it? Google suggests I can't use TTF
> with VNC? There must be a solution though? Even tried NoMachine's
> FreeNX which looks just as bad.
>
> I've checked the fontPath variable in /usr/bin/vncserver and tried
> putting 100dpi fonts before 75dpi but that didn't help, and it
> complains if I add the TTF directory.
>
> Thanks a lot for any help
>
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