Re: Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice & vncserver

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

Jan Suchy wrote:
> I believe you can't get anti-aliased fonts with vncserver
> because it doesn't support OpenGL. You'll probably
> get an error message similar to this one:
>
> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":3.0"
>
> when you try to start an application which normally has
> anti-aliased fonts. AFAIK the only vnc server implementation
> which has the GLX extension is xf4vnc (http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net).
> I have no personal experince with it but I'll appreciate
> yours if you're going to give it a try.

Why do I get anti-aliased fonts with vncserver 3.3.7-1 in all of KDE, 
Mozilla FireBird 0.7, and Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 and not OpenOffice?

Could one of these libraries be providing the anti-aliasing instead of 
depending on GLX/Render in the X server?

Package: mozilla-firebird
Version: 0.7-7
Depends: fontconfig, psmisc, libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.4.1), libc6 (>= 
2.3.2.ds1-4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.2.1), libfreetype6 (>
= 2.1.5-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.3.2-1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.2.3), libgtk2.0-0 
(>= 2.2.1), libidl0, libjpeg62, libpango1.0-0
(>= 1.2.1), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.5.0-4), libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.2-1), 
libxft2 (>> 2.1.1), libxrender1, xlibs (>> 4.1.0), zl
ib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)

Package: mozilla-thunderbird
Version: 0.5-1
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.4.1), libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libfontconfig1 
(>= 2.2.1), libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.5-1), libgcc1
(>= 1:3.3.2-1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.2.3), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.2.1), 
libidl0, libjpeg62, libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.2.1), libstdc+
+5 (>= 1:3.3.2-1), libxft2 (>> 2.1.1), libxrender1, xlibs (>> 4.1.0) | 
libx11-6, xlibs (>> 4.1.0) | libxext6, xlibs (>>
 4.1.0) | libxp6, xlibs (>> 4.1.0) | libxt6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)

Package: openoffice.org-bin
Version: 1.1.0-6
Depends: libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.8), libaudio2, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), 
libcurl2 (>= 7.11.0-1), libdb3++c102 (>= 3.2.9-19)
, libfontconfig1 (>= 2.2.1), libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.5-1), libgcc1 (>= 
1:3.3.2-1), libmyspell3, libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.2-1),
 libxaw7 (>> 4.1.0), xlibs (>> 4.1.0) | libice6, xlibs (>> 4.1.0) | 
libsm6, xlibs (>> 4.1.0) | libx11-6, xlibs (>> 4.1.
0) | libxext6, xlibs (>> 4.1.0) | libxt6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), debconf 
(>= 1.2.0), openoffice.org (>= 1.1.0-2)

Package: vncserver
Version: 3.3.7-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.3-0pre9), libstdc++5 (>= 
1:3.3-0pre9), xlibs (>> 4.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.
4), perl, xbase-clients, xserver-common, vnc-common (>= 3.3.6-1)