[winswitch] Server only?

Michael Klitgaard michael at klitgaard.dk
Thu May 2 12:11:08 BST 2013


It is working now, thanks!

libXfont did the trick. You are obviously better at googling than me :)

I will try my luck with compiling winswitch from source.

Thank you for the help!


Sincerely
Michael

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk>wrote:

> On 05/02/2013 05:05 PM, Michael Klitgaard wrote:
> > Thanks for the input.
> >
> > xorg-x11-server-utils was not installed.
> >
> > I can't find the package:
> > xorg-x11-fonts-base
> >
> > It does not seem to be in:
> > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/
> >
> >
> > Is it in xorg-x11-fonts-misc, here it states:
> >
> http://pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-6/centos-rhel-i386/xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.2-9.1.el6.noarch.rpm.html
> >
> >
> > Provides
> > xorg-x11-fonts-base
> >
> > Even after the installation, I have the same error, and the same log..
> googling suggests:
> yum -y install libXfont
>
> See also:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8817196/problems-with-bundling-xvfb-into-application
>
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk
> > <mailto:antoine at nagafix.co.uk>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 05/02/2013 04:28 PM, Michael Klitgaard wrote:
> >     > I do not know if it is related, but I have problems starting xpra.
> >     >
> >     > If I do:
> >     > xpra start :7
> >     >
> >     > The log says:
> >     >
> >     > [mkl at a6134s01 .xpra]$ cat :7.log
> >     (snip)
> >     > [dix] Could not init font path element
> catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d,
> >     > removing from list!
> >     > [dix] Could not init font path element built-ins, removing from
> list!
> >     >
> >     > Fatal server error:
> >     > could not open default font 'fixed'
> >     > could not connect to X server on display ':7' after 3 seconds
> >     > 2013-05-02 11:23:19,967 removing socket
> >     > /home/mkl/.xpra/a6134s01.wpcorpnet.com-7
> >     A quick googling tells me you need some font package or library.
> >     I think you need all of those:
> >     xorg-x11-font-utils
> >     xorg-x11-server-utils
> >     xorg-x11-fonts-base
> >     xorg-x11-fonts-misc
> >     Let me know which one is missing from the RPM dependency list and
> I'll
> >     add it for the next release.
> >
> >     Cheers
> >     Antoine
> >
> >     >
> >     > What am I doing wrong?
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > Sincerely
> >     > Michael
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Michael Klitgaard
> >     <michael at klitgaard.dk <mailto:michael at klitgaard.dk>>wrote:
> >     >
> >     >> Hello,
> >     >>
> >     >> I have a linux cluster, and I have installed xpra on it a
> >     frontend, it is
> >     >> running CentOS 6.3.
> >     >> Can my winswitch on my machine (windows xp) connect to this, or
> >     do I need
> >     >> to install winswitch on the server?
> >     >>
> >     >> I have some problems installing winswitch. If I need to install
> >     winswitch
> >     >> on the server, is there a way to install a 'minimal' winswitch,
> >     which only
> >     >> works as a server and does not have dependencies on eg. nx?
> >     >> I don't see any use for the graphical docked tool on the server.
> >     >>
> >     >>
> >     >> Sincerely
> >     >> Michael
> >     >>
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