On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 07:03:09PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to run OpenOffice from a remote machine. I'm getting a bit of > confusing results.
What version do you use? The version of Debian uses client-side rendering (Xft). The ones from OOo[.il] use the traditional server-side rendering. With client-side rendering you need to make the client aware of the fonts. In server-side rendering you only need to configure the server. > > The problem can be catagorized in one word: > Fonts. > > OO doesn't see any of the fonts available to my local X server. Is that > the standard behaviour? Is that how things should be? > > Setup: > Local machine - my usual Debian Sid machine, running XFree86 4.3, with > all the relevant fonts installed and working for locally started > applications. > Remote machine - Debian Sarge, not running any X server at all. > Connection method - ssh to the sarge machine with "X11 forwarding" enabled. > > When I run oowriter, I get the windows asociated with the application > pop up locally. I can type into the application and do anything else > required. The list of fonts, however, is severly limited. When I try to > type in Hebrew (and assuming the remote locale is properly set), I get > squares, suggesting that there are no Hebrew fonts installed. > > My questions: > Where should my fonts be for things to work in this configuration? If you use Xfs: you need to make the fonts available to your client: Make sure the remote machine has the fonts are under /usr/share/fonts or use whatever it takes to make them available through fontconfig . > Will running XFS help in any way? Only if you use server-side rendering. But (as the client in this case is OpenOffice) the client still needs those fonts deined through OOo's spadmin. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
