[Rd] R | vnc | X11 fonts

[Evan Cooch]

Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> Evan Cooch wrote:
>> Quick followup - works fine with fluxbox (and, as noted, default 
>> twm). Simply can't get it to work with the gnome desktop, which 
>> ultimately I would like to.
>
> The difference between twm and metacity in gnome or other gnome
> windows manager is that twm uses X11 core fonts whereas gnome
> is xft/fontconfig-aware, and as far as I know R's X11() uses
> core font API's and is not xft-aware.
>
> You haven't said anything about your xorg setup - specifically,
> whether you are using a font server (it is the default on FC5, so
> unless you have changed it, you are using one). If that's the case,
> changing this line in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>      FontPath     "unix/:7100"
> to use *real* font paths may help.

Thanks very much for the useful summary of some key points.