Bugzilla Bug 22024

gvim, unison and possibly other apps such as sylpheed (from a forum post) show
only boxes for font charaters for system fonts such as menus.  Adding the
fontpaths from XF86Config did not fix it, but using $fontPath = "unix/:-1"; from
an old, resolved bug (6614) fixed it.  There is a line $fontPath = "unix/:7100";
already in the vncserver file, but it does not work since xfree-4.3 was
installed (when the xfs package changed).  This line is also commented out.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run any of the above applications in an unmodified (fontpath- wise)
(tightvnc)vncserver
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
No menu or dialog boxes in gvim, unison and possibly other applications

Expected Results:  
normal display

ive got a patch for vncserver that reads /etc/X11/XF86Config for font paths
it would fix this problem also is my guess since this patch fixed the problem
i was
having

Created an attachment (id=20085) [details]
tightvnc-1.2.9-vncserver.patch

heres the patch for 1.2.9 prob works for .8 also 
(been using .9 for some time now on x86 btw seems stable)

Actually I dont think this is a good idea.  gentoo sets up xfree to use
xfontserver
so reading the XF86 file may not get what you need (and doesnt in my case
on two systems)

Just change to 

$fontPath = "unix/:-1"

This fits in nicely without affecting the standard install of other packages
and is a simple one-liner.  Of course, if you dont run xfs it wont work,
but thats a non-standard config and you are on your own.

BillK

I've updated the patch to change fontPath to unix/:-1

Thanks!