Re: X forwarding emacs with XMing

[Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com>]

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