{"id":249,"date":"2013-09-10T13:06:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T13:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/?p=249"},"modified":"2013-09-10T13:06:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T13:06:51","slug":"missing-fonts-when-starting-x-application-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Missing fonts when starting X-application on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I got the following error message when I tried to start an X-application under Linux:<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: red;\">Some fonts seem to be missing in your system, you should install either xfonts-100dpi or xfonts-75dpi and then restart Xorg to get xboard running.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I got this error message despite having the packages xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-75dpi installed. After scratching my head for some time I found the problem: I was running the application via ssh with X-forwarding from a Windows PC. And the Xserver was actually running on Windows, namely the <a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/xming\/\">Xming <\/a>application.<br \/>\nThe problem was quickly fixed by downloading the font packages from the <a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/xming\/\">Xming <\/a>page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I got the following error message when I tried to start an X-application under Linux: Some fonts seem to be missing in your system, you should install either xfonts-100dpi or xfonts-75dpi and then restart Xorg to get xboard running. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/?p=249\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,27],"tags":[36,34,50,15,21],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-server","category-tips","tag-bugfix","tag-linux","tag-tips","tag-useful","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}