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dartec

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From: Cape Town, South Africa

Registered: 2012-05-20

Posts: 2

No fonts in NX

Hi all.
I have just set up my first Arch Linux box and am trying to get NX to work.
Everything is working find in terms of connecting, etc.
The problem I have, is that I can see no text (in the menus, in lxterm, etc).
I am running LXDE with OpenBox on a headless server.
I had LXDE running fine before removing the monitor and then installing Slim, as per the Wiki tutorial for NX.
I am running freenx 0.7.3-11 and the server and the client is NX Client for Windows 3.5.0-7
Can someone please point me in the right direction?
TIA

dartec

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From: Cape Town, South Africa

Registered: 2012-05-20

Posts: 2

Re: No fonts in NX

This what I am trying to explain:

From a locally connected monitor, the display is fine.
This is only happening when using freenx.

TIA

Last edited by dartec (2012-05-22 23:26:29)

boof

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Registered: 2012-05-26

Posts: 8

Re: No fonts in NX

Hi, I'm having a similar issue. Did you ever resolve this?

I'm about to migrate to Ubuntu if I can't get this fixed.

ice9

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Registered: 2010-04-16

Posts: 14

Re: No fonts in NX

What version of cairo and lib32-cairo do you have?

I recommend 1.10.2, because there are problems with the NX libraries and cairo 1.12

boof

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Registered: 2012-05-26

Posts: 8

Re: No fonts in NX

Exactly this! Downgraded to 1.10 and all is fine.

Can I ask how you know there is this compatibility problem between 1.12 and nx? Is there any place I can keep tabs on this to see if it's ever resolved?

I've blocked cairo from being auto updated by pacman for now but I suspect I won't get away with that for ever before it starts affecting other things.

Zenettii

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From: London

Registered: 2011-06-26

Posts: 5

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Re: No fonts in NX

Can I ask how you guys got the server installed?
I'ved tried the pacman install but it's a complete pain in the backside, all the library links are broken/incorrect. I had to link correctly commands such as nxdesktop and vnviewer and the publickey authentication keeps failing for me even though I followed the wiki step-by-step.

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ice9

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Registered: 2010-04-16

Posts: 14

Re: No fonts in NX

I think I first heard about it on one of the x2go lists, but it has been discussed in several places. I haven't run freeNX for a long time, since x2go seems to be more active for a while now. Anyway, there are several sources that you should probably monitor regarding the NX libraries:

http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/x2go-user/
http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/x2go-dev/
http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/freenx-knx/
http://www.nomachine.com/tr/servers.php

boof

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Registered: 2012-05-26

Posts: 8

Re: No fonts in NX

Can I ask how you guys got the server installed?
I'ved tried the pacman install but it's a complete pain in the backside, all the library links are broken/incorrect. I had to link correctly commands such as nxdesktop and vnviewer and the publickey authentication keeps failing for me even though I followed the wiki step-by-step.

I can't help I'm afraid. The pacman packages worked (with the cairo caveat) fine for me. I didn't see any of the problems you've listed. Sounds like you have bigger issues somewhere.

I followed this to get the nomachine version installed manually :

http://gordonazmo.wordpress.com/2011/03 … archlinux/

Though if I recall it did need a little bit of further permissions tinkering before it would play nice.

I do agree the whole key exchange stuff is a pain in the neck. It's actually quite simple but even then I found sometimes it just wouldn't play nicely.

boof

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Registered: 2012-05-26

Posts: 8

Re: No fonts in NX

I think I first heard about it on one of the x2go lists, but it has been discussed in several places. I haven't run freeNX for a long time, since x2go seems to be more active for a while now. Anyway, there are several sources that you should probably monitor regarding the NX libraries:

http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/x2go-user/
http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/x2go-dev/
http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/freenx-knx/
http://www.nomachine.com/tr/servers.php

That's great - thanks very much. Plenty for me to go through there.

I haven't heard of x2go either so I'll check that out - thanks for the tip.

EasySly

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Registered: 2012-03-25

Posts: 35

Re: No fonts in NX

Found another workaround in the article about FreeNX (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FreeNX). In the Problems section there is "Broken resume with Cairo 1.12.x" answer.

In the same manner it can be fixed for NoMachine NX server:

File: /usr/NX/etc/node.cfg

Default value is:

#AgentExtraOptions = "-nocomposite -noshpix"

Uncomment and add "-norender" option:

AgentExtraOptions = "-nocomposite -noshpix -norender"

restart nx using: systemctl restart nxserver

Enjoy!

Last edited by EasySly (2014-05-15 10:17:06)