nxagent fails to run with "Could not open default font 'fixed'"

[sunweaver]

From X2Go Bug #884:
http://bugs.x2go.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=884

On Fr 04 Sep 2015 04:06:55 CEST, devsk wrote:

Yes, I am talking about Gentoo specific packaging issue. I have filed

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559370

to track it down. As I mentioned, the specific files being talked
about are the font files in /usr/share/fonts/misc
(/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc on Ubuntu) which are character encodings
specific e.g. 9x15-ISO8859-*.pcf.gz. nxagent can not load a fixed
size font '9x15' without the presence of these files. It looks like
these are abandoned by modern X code because both Xorg and Xvnc work
fine without these files.

-devsk

Thanks for explaining the above. However, I think that we should get
this issue also solved upstream as most systems work on UTF-8 basis
and the more local encodings are rather historical than
current-state-of-the-art.

Let's leave this bug open and address it for 3.6.x of nx-libs instead
of dealing with it as a Gentoo specific bug.

Mike

[sunweaver]

The real work to fix this is backporting this X.org patch:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=49b93df8a3002db7196aa3fc1fd8dca1c12a55d6

[sunweaver]

and this one:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=f56cbe1ef24415d0142b9a7d0ab0a031069ccb52