From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unable to load any usable fontset Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 17:10:20 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EFB7D5C.6000804@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1056669178 17156 80.91.224.249 (26 Jun 2003 23:12:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 23:12:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 27 01:12:57 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Vfu6-0004NW-00 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 01:11:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Vft5-0005GV-Ha for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 19:10:43 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1056668955 29731705 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114769 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:11260 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11260 Daniel Klein wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to run an emacs on a remote server, forwarding the display to my > box. I am not the guy who installed emacs on that server, but I have root > access if I need to fix anything. When I try to run xemacs (gnu emacs opens > inside the terminal, which is not the behaviour I'm used to from another > remote server, where gnu emacs opens its own window on my display properly) I > get this error: > > Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset > > I'm using XEmacs 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" [Lucid] (i386-suse-linux, > Mule) of Sat Jun 23 2001. Could anyone maybe quickly tell me where to look? Is the DISPLAY environment variable set, before you invoke Emacs echo $DISPLAY or after M-: (getenv "DISPLAY") RET -- Kevin Rodgers