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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: [And X11 Forwarding Weirdness] Re: kword documents - cross
From:       Thomas Zander <TZander () FactotumMedia ! nl>
Date:       2003-11-05 14:49:12
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On Wednesday 05 November 2003 14:56, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
> > > So to save running up and down stairs, I enabled SSH X11
> > > Forwarding. I sshed to Nelson FROM Millhouse, and started kword.
> > > I opened up the document and to my suprise, it didn't look the
> > > same as if i was sitting infront of Nelson, it looked like as if
> > > i was in front of millhouse with a local version of kword.
> > > What's up with that ?
> >
> > Fonts differ. Identify which font you're using and copy it over.
> > Double-check whether Qt is using fonts via X or via Xft, and make
> > sure it's the same on both machines (check if Qt links to libXft,
> > and whether "xdpyinfo | grep RENDER" finds the render extension).
>
> Well, here's what confused me, when i ssh to nelson, and start kde
> shouldn't it being using all of the X resources ie: fonts from his
> machine ? And thus it should look identical as if i'm in front of
> his machine ? That was the really weird part I'm also hoping to get
> to the bottom of.

Nope; ever wondered why you need to config fonts in your X server?
If so; please read up on your X server/client software..

-- 
Thomas Zander
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