Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 22:42, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > >> No. This is Centos 5! So perhaps there is an issue with tightVNC???? >> > > Yes, you may try to create symbolic links to have the fonts on the > other path. Just great. Now I get to figure this out... :(' > I'm not an expert on X11 here, but I don't think > applications would have font paths hardcoded. It might be worth the > try though. So where is the font paths coming from messed up? I note that I do not have OpenOffice installed on this system. Perhaps that might make a difference.... > Where did you install TightVNC from? RPMforge/DAG has an > RPM for it (version 1.3.9-3.el5.rf for CentOS 5). > Yes. That is what I have and where I got it. >>> If that still does not fix your problem, then try installing >>> "fonts-xorg-100dpi" and "fonts-xorg-75dpi" as well. >>> >> For Centos 5, there are a number of fonts-xorg-100dpi, a '14' a '15' and I >> don't recall what else I found with the help of yumex. >> > > I only have xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi and > xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi installed here, and I never had > problems with fonts. > > ISO8859-1 is a character set also known as Latin-1, it has fonts for > most western alphabets. > > ISO8859-14 and ISO8859-15 are character sets with special characters > for (I believe) easter European countries. I believe one of those is > the same as Latin-1 but with an extra Euro sign, for example. I don't > think you need those, at least not to run TightVNC. Your problem is > probably not there. I have all of these :)