MS Sans Serif font in X11 under macOS

[Christoph Kukulies]

I come to the conclusion that it must be a Catalina problem with X11 fonts (directory access rights or something in that direction).

When I run the program bsvc locally under macOS (catalina 15.5.6) the application starts and has no font problem at all.

It seems to be a problem with the remote client accessing the X11-server.

—
Christoph



> Am 22.08.2020 um 11:23 schrieb Peter West <lists at pbw.id.au>:
> 
> On my Mojave installation, there’s am MS Reference Sans Serif.
> 
> 
>> On 22 Aug 2020, at 6:32 pm, Andrew Udvare <audvare at gmail.com <mailto:audvare at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 02:37 Christoph Kukulies <kuku at kukulies.org <mailto:kuku at kukulies.org>> wrote:
>> I’m running a tk/tcl app on my FreeBSD box that has the font „MS Sans Serif“ wired in.
>> This leads to an X11-error when starting the application (bsvc) with my macOS (catalina 15.5.6) as the server:
>> 
>> $ bsvc
>> X Error of failed request:  BadName (named color or font does not exist)
>>   Major opcode of failed request:  45 (X_OpenFont)
>>   Serial number of failed request:  42
>>   Current serial number in output stream:  59
>> 
>> 
>> Is there a way to install the missing font using a macport? Or what is the closest standard X11 font that can be used instead of the MS font?
>> 
>> That font should be included with macOS as it has been since Leopard. It's possibly named slightly differently.
>> 
>> The closest font is probably Helvetica but your app has the MS font hard coded.
>> 
>> —
>> Christoph
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 

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