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[Aydos juca]

Hi,

I am running Debian Woody and Gnome 1.4 and I just installed emacs21 and the 
problem is:

When I start emacs I get a message:

Warning: Cannot convert string 
"-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

and all I can see on the emacs screen are empty blocks instead of 
characters. The menus characters are ok, but all characters on the screen 
appear in form of an empty square. What can I do to fix this?


Thanks. Carlos

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[Aydos juca]

I am running Debian Woody with Gnome 1.4. I just installed emacs21 and the 
problem is:

When I start emacs, I get the message:Warning: Cannot convert

string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

and all the characteres on the emacs screen appear as an empty square. The 
menu characters appear ok, but the ones on the screen appear as just empty 
squares.

What can I do about this?

Thanks,  Carlos



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[Kai Großjohann]

"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.
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file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature)

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[Aydos juca]

I am running Debian Woody with Gnome 1.4. I just installed emacs21 and the 
problem is:

When I start emacs, I get the message:Warning: Cannot convert

string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

and all the characteres on the emacs screen appear as an empty square. The 
menu characters appear ok, but the ones on the screen appear as just empty 
squares.

What can I do about this?

Thanks,  Carlos



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