Date: 20 Sep 2005 13:41:49 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remote X session fonts question Message-ID: <44psr3tz4y.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <1127131549.1213.4.camel@maarten> References: <1127131549.1213.4.camel@maarten>
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Maarten Sanders <maarfree@xs4all.nl> writes: > My wifes laptop is too aged to work at an acceptable speed. I have > converted it to a remote X terminal (over ssh) and that works like a > charm. Only application that behaves funny is Openoffice.org.1.1.5. For > some reason the fonts in the menus get too much space around them. Has > anyone a clue on in which direction I should look? Do I need to setup a > font server? Do the xorg.conf fonts sections need to be absolutly equal? An application can only use fonts which the X server knows about. The laptop has its own X server, and needs the fonts that you want to use. A font server is one way to do that; installing the fonts on the laptop directly would be another.
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