For over 10 years I have run our office network with a clutch of 'nettop'-style machines with specific roles but overlapping capabilities, so that any one machine can die without affecting overall functionality. One of these, running NetBSD 7.0, repeatedly fails to boot multi-user: it's main role was to run Xvnc to provide access to the network of NetBSD machines to PC workstations. This arrangement has worked very well, so well I had not looked at how it was set up for years.
So I switched the service over to an identical machine whose principal role was to provide outward-facing services: mail, named etc. It appeared at first to be a seamless transition, until I saw that characters typed into an xterm were echoed horizontally offset to the right, so were largely unreadable. Characters programatically output to the screen are rendered correctly. I use lucidatypewriter as my STD_FONT, 18 point in deference to my presbyopia. A fix for this would be really helpful. So I turned to a NetBSD 9.2 box, and here I hit a different problem. Using Xvnc as started by the same vncserver script as before, I get the right screen dimensions (1920x1080) but not the font I want or the size I want. It looks like there was a major reorganisation of fonts some time between 7.0 and 9.2, with more layers of configuration. How do I specify th lucidatypewriter font I want (it's there, I can see it through xlsfontas, but I don't get told where it is in the filesystem). Finally, with native X on 9.2, despite specifying a geometry of 1920x1080 in my startx script, I get a 1024x768 display. Why? I'm about to replace all my old machines but need to feel properly in controld when I do. BTW, all machines amd64. -- Steve Blinkhorn <st...@prd.co.uk>
