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Bug 75803

Summary: vncserver does not respect KDE font selection.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Ivo Sarak <ivo>
Component: vncAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Ivo Sarak 2002-10-12 19:56:05 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Fonts used by vncserver is not that what is used under KDE at terminal. 


How reproducible:
Always


Images of this problem:

http://www.vendomar.ee/~ivo/vncviewer_font1.png
http://www.vendomar.ee/~ivo/vncviewer_font2.png

This error applies only to KDE menu fonts:
http://www.vendomar.ee/~ivo/vncviewer_font3.png

Additional infomation:
Somehow this error is related to (one) particular user as vncserver under root
is fine.
Comment 1 Ivo Sarak 2002-10-12 20:58:31 UTC 
The same machine locally, not over vnc:
http://www.vendomar.ee/~ivo/localX_font1.png
Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2002-10-13 09:24:26 UTC 
Does the same thing happen when the VNC server is run for root, rather than 
for a non-root user?
Comment 3 Ivo Sarak 2002-10-13 15:26:35 UTC 
Root is fine:

http://www.vendomar.ee/~ivo/vncviewer_font_root.png

I made a new user and it is fine, too:

http://www.vendomar.ee/~ivo/vncviewer_font_third_user.png

So somehow this problem is with one old user. 

Where does vncserver take the X settings?
Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2002-10-13 15:36:09 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72965 ***
Comment 5 Rex Dieter 2003-06-06 14:26:44 UTC 
I believe the(a) source of the problem in this case is that vnc/vncserver has no 
notion of the Serif, Mono, Sans fonts, which appear to be fontconfig/Xft-only.