From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; MSNATLAS01.CZ) vncserver script does not set X11 font path to use font server. Some fonts in vnc session does not work (ex. iso8859-2 fonts) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. I make binary rpm from vnc-3.3.3r2-13.src.rpm on Redhat 6.2 CZ (czech version) 2. install binary rpm 3. start vncserver 4. all czech text in KDE desktop are invalid, I cannot select ISO8859- charset All are correct after applaying this patch on vncserver script --- /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/vnc_unixsrc/vncserver Fri Apr 13 21:07:11 2001 +++ /usr/bin/vncserver Fri Apr 13 22:05:01 2001 @@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ # Add font path and color database stuff here, e.g.: # +$cmd .= " -fp unix/:-1"; # $cmd .= " -fp /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"; # $cmd .= " -co /usr/lib/X11/rgb"; #
Yes, this seems like a reasonable thing to do.
In fact newer version of Red Hat Linux use unix/:7100 for the font path. I have adjusted this in vnc-3.3.3r2-15.