[virt-tools-list] Fonts all messed up when remote display via X over SSH

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Wed Dec 8 17:18:13 UTC 2010


On 12/08/2010 12:06 PM, Don Hoover wrote:
> Is there a solution to the fact that the virt-manager gui is all messed up whenever you try to display it back via X over SSH?
> 
> I even get this when logging in via ssh and trying to display back to my RHEL6 desktop.  The only way I can get the virt-manager do display correctly is when running it DIRECTLY on a local linux workstation, but in my case I need to run it because I need to traverse a firewall via ssh first.
> 
> Screenshot showing what I get:
> http://yfrog.com/fyvirtmanagerp
> 

Hmm, not sure. Do other apps have the same issue? How about
system-config-firewall or system-config-printer, which also use pygtk?

What's 'echo $LANG' on both hosts?

- Cole




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