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Re: Font problem with remote emacs session
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:40:56 -0600
- Subject: Re: Font problem with remote emacs session
- References: <444605.13192.qm@web34403.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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Joe Java wrote:
> I Have not used X in a while ( a few months). I did a complete update to the latest Cygwin packages. When I logged onto the school system , I tried to open an emacs window and got the following:
>
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
>
> Emacs title bar and menu bars are OK, but I get square boxes for the loaded file body.
>
> The exact same system works OK from my other machine (a OS X system using the X-Window supplied with OS X). I use to be able to remote into the school's system and open Emacs windows with Cygwin-X.
>
> Suggestions?
1) http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL
2) http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-where-are-my-fonts
Yaakov
Cygwin/X
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