Hi,
we use VNC for remote administration on several linux boxes from NT laptops. So far so good.
Our only problem is, that when starting netvaults
gui, we see dotted squares instead of menu texts.
The texts of some other elements were shown.
When using the same gui from the console we see the normal menus etc.
So it seems to me that it is a problem of fonts of VNC. I tried a little with fontpaths but I was unsuccessful.
The basic here is to copy the fontpath form a working display.
If you have a working display at the console of the vnc-server machine, then use `xset -q` to see the used fontpath there.
Now you can use `xset` inside the vnc session to update the fontpath live until you have a suitable one. See `man xset` for how to update the fontpath. Be carefull not to remove the entire fontpath, you will see no fonts at all.....
Once you have a working fontpath, you can update the `vncserver` script to set the working fontpath, or otherwise update the way Xvnc is started.
I saw in the archives a hint to use a font server. I contacted the admin who got this response and he wrote me that it did not help.
If the fontpath on the console is something like machinename:7100, then there is a fontserver running at that machine and you can use that.
Any ideas ? Thanks in advance.
BE NOTED: Xvnc is a verry basic X-server and cannot handle all fonts! Specially if you use font-directories, fonts are not translated and hence might not work at all. Some fontservers can/do translate fonts for Xvnc and hence might get better results.
In the end, you might be helped with a X0vncserver like the one now available with the new version.
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