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From: CastingPearlsnight <Rush_of_Fools_fool@yahoo.com>
To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: X forwarding emacs with XMing
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:28:37 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <31190348.post@talk.nabble.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5BBC7D73-6506-41D5-900E-4C733ABC4C3E@gmail.com>



Perry Smith-4 wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mar 19, 2011, at 10:13 AM, CastingPearlsnight wrote:
> 
>> I use Emacs on a school Linux machine through Putty. Usually I just use
>> the
>> text terminal, but for a project I had to get X forwarding working so
>> that I
>> could use a GUI debugger. 
>> I used the instructions here:
>> http://www.math.umn.edu/systems_guide/putty_xwin32.html
>> I started with x-win32 and that worked for both the debugger and Emacs,
>> but
>> I wasn't getting the license code I needed to run for longer than half an
>> hour quickly enough, so I installed XMing for the time being. That worked
>> fine for the debugger, but every time I tried to run Emacs I got "Font
>> '9x15' is not defined."
>> 
>> I finally got the license code for X-Win32 and uninstalled XMing, but I'm
>> still getting the font error, even though it had worked before. Can
>> anyone
>> tell me what went wrong?
> 
> Is the font error causing emacs to not work?
> 
> Usually font errors are followed by some message that says "substituting"
> some other font.
> 
> I don't see how getting the license would have cause or started that
> message.  I suspect it was there before.
> 
> Tell us what happens after the font errors comes out.  That might help me
> understand what is wrong.
> 
> pedz
> 
> 
> 
> 

It doesn't do anything, just shows the error, and then quits, waits for the
next command. The license didn't start the message, having XMing on my
computer did. 
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      reply	other threads:[~2011-03-19 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-19 15:13 X forwarding emacs with XMing CastingPearlsnight
2011-03-19 18:02 ` Perry Smith
2011-03-19 19:28   ` CastingPearlsnight [this message]

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