After finding the solution to the problem, I ask comments from others here:
Most of my FreeBSD servers have quite old versions, newest of those being 12.1. When I recently got a new server, I installed FreeBSD 15 and the feature I have always used, forwarding X connection over ssh from my Ubuntu Mate laptop, broke. X in the laptop basically crashed when starting any X client in FreeBSD side. Sakura, emacs and even xterm.
The problem was that the FreeBSD doesn't install necessary fonts by dependencies, like it used to do, I guess. The simple fix is to run:
Not having the fonts installed, caused illegal window size requests and other garbage over X and caused the server side to effectively crash.
How could we get this to installation instructions?
Most of my FreeBSD servers have quite old versions, newest of those being 12.1. When I recently got a new server, I installed FreeBSD 15 and the feature I have always used, forwarding X connection over ssh from my Ubuntu Mate laptop, broke. X in the laptop basically crashed when starting any X client in FreeBSD side. Sakura, emacs and even xterm.
The problem was that the FreeBSD doesn't install necessary fonts by dependencies, like it used to do, I guess. The simple fix is to run:
Code:
pkg install dejavu fontconfig
fc-cache -fvNot having the fonts installed, caused illegal window size requests and other garbage over X and caused the server side to effectively crash.
How could we get this to installation instructions?
