font sizes in gnome terminal are smaller when running realVNC realVNC

[Jon Peatfield]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Williams, Chris (Marlboro) wrote:

> I forgot about xset -q. That might help find the problem.
> I was talking to Kevin off-list and he's running the GNOME desktop which
> might be overriding whatever X has set has it's fonts. Or
> gnome-terminals own font config might be poorly set.

Indeed.  It may also be worth checking with a fresh dummy account just in 
case there is some config being stored.

> AFAIK the RENDER extension is only available with Enterprise Edition of
> RealVNC and I'm almost sure he's not running that.

There are some patches floating about which attempt to add RENDER to the 
realvnc stuff.  I see from the Redhat changelog for the vnc-server rpm 
that they have at various points turned render on (and usually back off 
again pretty shortly afterwards).

Recentish versions of Xorg will have RENDER enabled by default so it will 
be on for the X on a console.  A badly written app (or library) *might* 
behave one way when it is available (like on the console) and do something 
else when it isn't (like with Xvnc).

  -- Jon