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Re: Missing font depenency



On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 09:24:33AM -0600, Jason Bacon wrote:
> I should mention that this is a headless rack-mount server where we run X11
> apps over ssh.  It doesn't have a full xorg suite installed, so really the
> issue is that many X11 applications have some unnamed dependencies on the
> assumption that xorg is installed.

Not really. Classic X11 applications do *not* expect any fonts installed
on the machine running the application. Local presence of fonts is
something that came with Anti Aliasing, Freetype and Fontconfig.

Joerg


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