gnucash over X font problem

[andy thomas]

I used to use gnucash 1.6 locally on a SuSE 8.2 system and it worked fine.
More often, I used to use it over the network via X-Windows/ssh from a
variety of other UNIX and Linux systems and this worked fine too. But I have
just upgraded the host system to gnucash 1.8.8 (which is bundled with
SuSE 9.1) and although I can use gnucash on the local system, the text is
missing on all the remote systems I've tried this with. The icons, buttons
and graphic button labels like left/right arrows, etc are fine however.

This suggests an X-Windows fonts problem but the fonts available to both
the SuSE gnucash host system and the other systems are much the same.
Does anyone know which fonts gnucash 1.8.,8 requires or is the problem
something else? I may have to go back to using gnucash 1.6.

Andy