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VNCOverSSH font fix has X11/fonts not fonts/X11

Bug #106624 reported by RogerShepherd
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Bug Description

The VNCOverSSH documentation contains

"To avoid a nasty error related to FontPaths when starting your VNC server later, edit the the /etc/vnc.conf file with sudo, and your preferred editor, and add these lines to the very bottom of the /etc/vnc.conf file:

$fontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
$fontPath .= "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc,";
$fontPath .= "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic,";
$fontPath .= "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,";
$fontPath .= "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,";
....

I'm runnning Edgy Eft and it seems like the fonts are located in ..../fonts/X11/.....
not as in the text above.

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Matthew East (mdke) wrote :

Thanks for your report, and apologies for the slow response. I believe you're referring to this page - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VNCOverSSH

That page is in the community wiki, and it's possible to login and edit it yourself. See the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiGuide/Registration?action=show

As for the report, I have something in both .../X11/fonts and in .../fonts/X11 so I'm not sure what the answer is.

If you find out the answer, please post here, and if you edit the page yourself, please mark this bug as fixed!

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Rob (rhbowman-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Matthew has a good reply. This really seems like a case for not matching versions with installing. There are some versions where the default fonts were changed.

The instructions could be written in a better format to show a version difference. There is a case where a new user would just follow the instructions with complete disregard. Perhaps there should be a case instruction written to find your version and then proceed to step A or step B.

Matthew, would you like to take this on or shall we leave it to someone else?

We often forget that there are several new linux users and may not even realize what version they have. If we write everything for a fourth grader to follow we could get uniform results. Maybe,(?)

Changed in ubuntu-doc:
status: New → Invalid
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