Did you find a solution to this yet? I'm runing a vnc server, vnc-server-4.0-11.el4, on a rhel 4 server and my GNOME fonts look normal. I didn't pass any special options to the vnc server or the gnome-terminal binary. The fonts don't look great, I have a problem with fonts in Linux in general but at least their not too small and readable.
Are you runnign the x font server xfs? And I would say smaller dpi would give you smaller fonts and larger dpi would give you larger fonts. But as I understand it, you should choose a dpi which closely matches your display? -Chris -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Klein Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 3:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: font sizes in gnome terminal are smaller when running realVNC Running "xdpyinfo | grep -i dpi" (without the quotes) does not return any results. Running "xdpyinfo | grep -i "dots per inch" returns the following: resolution: 99x98 dots per inch I tried your suggestion of using the -dpi flag, but it doesn't affect the size of the text inside the GNOME console for some reason. It does change the size of the text everywhere else, however. Also, did you mean to say that a smaller dpi gives smaller fonts, and a larger dpi gives larger fonts? That was my experience when I was changing the value of the -dpi flag. Kevin On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Mihai Badea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi kevin, > did you check your dpi? dpi in a real xsession may be different than in a > vncsession. > use |xdpyinfo | grep -i dpi" to check it. > try to set your desired dpi to the vnc server with the option "-dpi 75" for > example > smaller values will offer bigger fonts and viceversa > br, > rumburak > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Kevin Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, 24 July, 2008 5:54:18 PM > Subject: font sizes in gnome terminal are smaller when running realVNC > > I am running GNOME 2.0 under Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3, and am > using realVNC to create a VNC server on this computer. I am then accessing > this machine remotely using the free realVNC viewer 4.1.2 under windows XP > Pro. > > The problem I am having is that the fonts in the GNOME terminal window show > up much smaller when I run a GNOME terminal in the VNC session compared to > when I run a GNOME terminal locally (i.e., when I am actually sitting down > at the computer). I have already checked the profile settings of the GNOME > terminals in the VNC sessions, and the font size and type are identical to > what is shown when I am logged in locally. For some reason, the actual > text > in a GNOME terminal window is much smaller when I am in the VNC session. > If > I change the font size in the VNC session, then the font size also changes > in the GNOME terminal windows of the local desktop, but then they appear > much larger than what I want. Is there any way to make the appearance of > the fonts consistent between the local desktop and the VNC sessions? > > I tried using the regular xterm application, and the fonts used look > identical between the local desktop and a VNC session. I am not sure why > this problem only occurs with the GNOME terminal. > > I searched the mailing list and found a couple posts relating to font size > discrepancies between VNC sessions and local desktops, but none of them > addressed the GNOME terminal specifically. I even used the "xset fp=" > command (without the quotes) to make the font path in the VNC session match > the font path in my local desktop, but that didn't help. > > Does anyone know what the problem could be? > > Thanks > > Kevin > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [email protected] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > > ------------------------------ > Not happy with your email address? > Get the one you really want <http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/ymail/new.html> - > millions of new email addresses available now at Yahoo!<http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/ymail/new.html> > _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
