On 15/10/2019 17:12, Mike Scott wrote:
....
> But after grubbing around a bit more on the web, I've run 'xset q',
> which tells me
> Font Path:
>    /usr/share/vnc/fonts/
>
> So that looks like the problem. That directory is very skeletal:
> # ls /usr/share/vnc/fonts/
> 6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz  cursor.pcf.gz  fonts.alias  fonts.dir
>
> Crudely, I tried replacing the fonts dir with a symlink to
> /usr/share/fonts/X11, but the vncserver crashed most spectacularly at
> startup. I'm hunting for a config option to vncserver to set the fonts
> path to the actual X11 path -- no luck so far.
>
And finally there... the common.custom config file doesn't seem to work,
but adding

xset +fp
"/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/mi
sc"

to the xstartup file does the job.

Thanks for the comments.


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Mike Scott
Harlow, England

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