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| author | DRC <dcommander@users.sourceforge.net> | 2009-04-15 06:47:23 +0000 |
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| committer | DRC <dcommander@users.sourceforge.net> | 2009-04-15 06:47:23 +0000 |
| commit | 36546c1e5f5139c710b41dc172ed7bfb294a4cff (patch) | |
| tree | f06d426df437061a700fb5912e815780933f23a1 /unix/vncserver.man | |
| parent | cf6dfc469f449b4337beedf9e76902dbe3655afb (diff) | |
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Change font path logic such that XFS is used if it is available and running, otherwise Xvnc is started with no -fp argument. If this fails, then Xvnc is restarted using the automatically-generated font path.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/tigervnc/code/trunk@3779 3789f03b-4d11-0410-bbf8-ca57d06f2519
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diff --git a/unix/vncserver.man b/unix/vncserver.man index 1c283a7c..1c93107b 100644 --- a/unix/vncserver.man +++ b/unix/vncserver.man @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH vncserver 1 "26 Mar 2009" "TigerVNC" "Virtual Network Computing" +.TH vncserver 1 "15 Apr 2009" "TigerVNC" "Virtual Network Computing" .SH NAME vncserver \- start or stop a VNC server .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -91,24 +91,19 @@ end of your xstartup file after a particular application exits. .TP .B \-fp \fIfont-path\fP -The vncserver script will normally examine your system to figure out where it -stores its X11 fonts and then generate an appropriate font path argument for -Xvnc based on this. If your system stores its X11 fonts in a location that -vncserver does not know about, however, then this may fail. In that case, -vncserver will then try to contact the local X Font Server (xfs) on port 7100. -Not all systems have xfs installed and running, so this may fail as well. In -that case, you can manually specify a font path by using the +If the vncserver script detects that the X Font Server (XFS) is running, it +will attempt to start Xvnc and configure Xvnc to use XFS for font handling. +Otherwise, if XFS is not running, the vncserver script will attempt to start +Xvnc and allow Xvnc to use its own preferred method of font handling (which may +be a hard-coded font path or, on more recent systems, a font catalog.) In +any case, if Xvnc fails to start, the vncserver script will then attempt to +determine an appropriate X font path for this system and start Xvnc using +that font path. + +The .B \-fp -argument to vncserver. - -If you prefer to use the X Font Server by default rather than a static font -path, then you can run - -.RS -.RS -vncserver -fp unix/:7100 -.RE -.RE +argument allows you to override the above fallback logic and specify a font +path for Xvnc to use. .SH FILES Several VNC-related files are found in the directory $HOME/.vnc: |