It is working now, thanks! libXfont did the trick. You are obviously better at googling than me :)
I will try my luck with compiling winswitch from source. Thank you for the help! Sincerely Michael On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Antoine Martin <[email protected]>wrote: > On 05/02/2013 05:05 PM, Michael Klitgaard wrote: > > Thanks for the input. > > > > xorg-x11-server-utils was not installed. > > > > I can't find the package: > > xorg-x11-fonts-base > > > > It does not seem to be in: > > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/ > > > > > > Is it in xorg-x11-fonts-misc, here it states: > > > http://pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-6/centos-rhel-i386/xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.2-9.1.el6.noarch.rpm.html > > > > > > Provides > > xorg-x11-fonts-base > > > > Even after the installation, I have the same error, and the same log.. > googling suggests: > yum -y install libXfont > > See also: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8817196/problems-with-bundling-xvfb-into-application > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Antoine Martin <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > On 05/02/2013 04:28 PM, Michael Klitgaard wrote: > > > I do not know if it is related, but I have problems starting xpra. > > > > > > If I do: > > > xpra start :7 > > > > > > The log says: > > > > > > [mkl@a6134s01 .xpra]$ cat :7.log > > (snip) > > > [dix] Could not init font path element > catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d, > > > removing from list! > > > [dix] Could not init font path element built-ins, removing from > list! > > > > > > Fatal server error: > > > could not open default font 'fixed' > > > could not connect to X server on display ':7' after 3 seconds > > > 2013-05-02 11:23:19,967 removing socket > > > /home/mkl/.xpra/a6134s01.wpcorpnet.com-7 > > A quick googling tells me you need some font package or library. > > I think you need all of those: > > xorg-x11-font-utils > > xorg-x11-server-utils > > xorg-x11-fonts-base > > xorg-x11-fonts-misc > > Let me know which one is missing from the RPM dependency list and > I'll > > add it for the next release. > > > > Cheers > > Antoine > > > > > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > > > > > > > > Sincerely > > > Michael > > > > > > > > > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Michael Klitgaard > > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>wrote: > > > > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> I have a linux cluster, and I have installed xpra on it a > > frontend, it is > > >> running CentOS 6.3. > > >> Can my winswitch on my machine (windows xp) connect to this, or > > do I need > > >> to install winswitch on the server? > > >> > > >> I have some problems installing winswitch. If I need to install > > winswitch > > >> on the server, is there a way to install a 'minimal' winswitch, > > which only > > >> works as a server and does not have dependencies on eg. nx? > > >> I don't see any use for the graphical docked tool on the server. > > >> > > >> > > >> Sincerely > > >> Michael > > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > > > shifter-users mailing list > > > [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > http://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > shifter-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > http://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users > > > > > > _______________________________________________ shifter-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users
