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From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: no characters
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 08:17:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <843ckboy2m.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5042.1050983901.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

"Aydos juca" <jucaaydos@hotmail.com> writes:

> When I start emacs I get a message:
>
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

It means that Emacs can't find this font.  Helvetica sounds like a
proportional font.  You won't be happy using Emacs with a
proportional font.  You should be using a monospaced font.

Try setting the font in ~/.Xdefaults.
-- 
file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature)

       reply	other threads:[~2003-04-22  6:17 UTC|newest]

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2003-04-22  6:17 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2003-04-22  7:01 no characters Aydos juca
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2003-04-22  4:03 Aydos juca
2003-04-22  3:58 Aydos juca

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