[clug] Bizarre failures in remote X server

Darren Freeman daz111 at rsphysse.anu.edu.au
Mon Oct 13 17:58:40 EST 2003


On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 17:12, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 13 Oct 2003, Darren Freeman <daz111 at rsphysse.anu.edu.au> wrote:
> Perhaps something to do with not being able to find the right fonts?
> 
> What do you mean "half the forms"?

As in lots of forms belonging to GTK apps, specifically text input
boxes.

I hadn't thought of fonts being an issue, but as I have tried with my
firewall dropped I would have thought it should find my font server.
Surely the worst case of missing fonts is simply an ugly display?

Darren




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