[CentOS] minimal packages to use x11 forwarding

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:46 PM, dnk <d.k.emaillists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8-Jul-08, at 1:40 PM, Matt Hyclak wrote:
>
>> Installing xorg-x11-xauth is usually enough.
>>
>> Matt
>
> Yeah I added that one (xorg-x11-xauth), xfs (started), and yet when i run an
> app, no go.
>
> # ssh -Y user at remote_host
>
> # app &
>
>  No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig
> library is not correctly configured. You may need to
> edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information
> about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual
> page and on http://fontconfig.org
>
> So I tried installing a few fonts:
>
> # yum install xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi.noarch
>
> Still the same error.

Perhaps, run:

yum groupinfo "X Window System"

and look under the "Mandatory Packages" section for a clue?

Akemi