VNC: unreadable text., viewing Gnome desktop from Windows98

From: Cosmo Lee (blahblahlounge_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 08/29/03

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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:24:05 -0400

    VNC 3.3.6, RH 7.2, Gnome desktop

    When viewing my Linux/Gnome desktop w/ a VNC viewer from Win98, there
    are cases where I am unable to read text. Instead of readable letters I
    see a bunch of outlines of small boxes. I can see this text fine when
    I'm on the Linux console, but not when using the VNC viewer from a Win98
    box.

    One example of this is when I right-click on the time/date on the Gnome
    panel. Then I click "About". What I see is a box with a clock icon
    on top. The rest of the box is filled with text information. However,
    on my installation, I can't read anything. Any letter of words are
    replaced by outlines of boxes.

    I thought that this might be an issue w/ inadequate resolution on the
    Win 98 side, but I bumped the resolution 1280x1024 on the Win98 side,
    viewing a Gnome desktop that's only 1024x768, and I still had the problem.

    Any ideas what's going on?

    Any help is appreciated. 

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