adding fonts for a x-server-less machine

adding fonts for a x-server-less machine

Micha michf at post.tau.ac.il
Wed Mar 23 12:12:18 IST 2011


I have a headless server that doesn't run X (I don't want it to run X), but I do 
want to run apps remotely on it with ssh X tunneling. I'm trying to run rxvt at 
the moment but it refuses to start because it can't find any fonts.

I tried installing the font packages but it does seem to help and xfontsel and 
urxvt don't see the newly installed fonts. How do I get the fonts to be 
recognized, i.e what is the minimum install that doesn't require an actual 
X-server to run?

This is for connecting from a windows machine with xming (sorry, not mine) to a 
debian sid based server (I require some up to date apps and drivers so can't run 
stable on this one).

Thanks



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