RE: X-font called 'fixed'

[Remco van de Meent <rvdmeent@xs4all.nl>]

On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, David Karlin wrote:

 : I ran gunzip on all the files in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc, then
 : ran compress on all the files.  Now the are all *.Z files.
 : 
 : Vncserver still barfed looking for fixed (same error msg). BTW,
 : I noticed that there actually are some files in that directory 
 : which have `fixed' in their descriptions.

Hmm, strange. It worked for me some time ago, I'm pretty sure.

 : I then ran mkfontdir on that directory, and restarted vncserver.
 : Still can't open 'fixed'.  Is there something like a font server
 : that I need to run vncserver?

Another way is indeed to run the xfs-fontserver. In /etc/vncserver, you
should define this one: 
           $cmd .= " -fp tcp/localhost:7100";


Good luck,
 -Remco