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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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