On 12/16/12 08:51, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2012/12/16 14:08, LEVAI Daniel wrote: >> On v, dec 16, 2012 at 13:02:44 +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: >>> On 2012/12/16 13:46, LEVAI Daniel wrote: >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> Is there a way to change the fonts for ssvncviewer (from the ssvnc >>>> package)? Weirdest thing is that I have two different looks on two >>>> different machines, and I can't for my life figure out what this >>>> depends on :-/ >>> >>> Which font are you talking about, the popup menu on f8 in the viewer, >>> or something else? >> >> Oh, yes, sorry, I was talking about the font for ssvncviewer(1)'s tiny >> little window, which just swallows a hostname. It seems that although >> it is some weird looking font, maybe the anti-aliasing is off too. > > Ah that one - I normally run it from a shell and supply the hostname on > the command line so I don't see it. You can control it with X resources, > e.g. add this to .Xdefaults (and xrdb -merge .Xdefaults to have it take > effect immediately) :- > > Ssvnc.serverDialog.dialog.label.font: > -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > > I'm not sure what the default is. > >>> http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/ssvnc_help.html talks about fonts for >>> the ssvnc Tcl frontend, but not about the viewer itself.. >> >> The ssvnc(1) application's font is totally different and it looks nice, >> and that was even more interesting for me; I thought the two were using >> the same "engine". > > The 'engine' is the same (ssvnc just calls out to the normal vncviewer > binary), but it's a Tcl/Tk front-end app, which takes care of tunnelling > and command-line parameters for vncviewer. One non-obvious feature that > is occasionally useful (for example, if you leave something on a running > desktop on a machine at home and need to access it remotely), if you set > 'use SSH', then in 'options', you can 'automatically find X session' - > this will attempt to ssh across, run x11vnc on the remote side and > connect to your X desktop. > > >
Tk 8.4 and 8.5 use different fonts for some things. Maybe you're running one under 8.4 and the other under 8.5? Stu
