From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: CastingPearlsnight Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: X forwarding emacs with XMing Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:28:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <31190348.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <31189122.post@talk.nabble.com> <5BBC7D73-6506-41D5-900E-4C733ABC4C3E@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300562958 15839 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2011 19:29:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:29:18 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 19 20:29:15 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q11po-0001Ep-6Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:29:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49076 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q11pn-0002qU-AC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:29:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58409 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q11pH-0002mv-Pc for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:28:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q11pG-0004rw-HF for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:28:39 -0400 Original-Received: from sam.nabble.com ([216.139.236.26]:58758) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q11pG-0004rm-BG for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:28:38 -0400 Original-Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q11pF-00076b-8b for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:28:37 -0700 In-Reply-To: <5BBC7D73-6506-41D5-900E-4C733ABC4C3E@gmail.com> X-Nabble-From: Rush_of_Fools_fool@yahoo.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 216.139.236.26 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80284 Archived-At: 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. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/X-forwarding-emacs-with-XMing-tp31189122p31190348.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.