From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Perry Smith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: X forwarding emacs with XMing Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 13:02:55 -0500 Message-ID: <5BBC7D73-6506-41D5-900E-4C733ABC4C3E@gmail.com> References: <31189122.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300557820 20644 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2011 18:03:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:03:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: CastingPearlsnight Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 19 19:03:36 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 1Q10Uw-0006db-ST for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:03:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40241 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q10Uw-0006Kd-A6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 14:03:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50753 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q10UP-0006Ef-F1 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 14:03:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q10UO-0002QZ-3O for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 14:03:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-iy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.210.169]:57643) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q10UN-0002QF-Vc for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 14:03:00 -0400 Original-Received: by iyf13 with SMTP id 13so6339094iyf.0 for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:02:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:subject:mime-version:content-type:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references :to:x-mailer; bh=UwyHFq3gUwjxWMhbbK/z9AUXbUX2wsxZY+FIggy8PmQ=; b=bLIhMQm5yiFYgw5R79XKAWzuX/c1VTMPB/omSVi1ZRXJKnQTDkwJlK9Fab2U5XXbmI /VJuMUWfTIEtLOraMuOavVGB3mbNhEmmJjfihclc/4Eo6uHEFE5oIDa1Ud9NP7yI/L/T lcK4SPVfC+jsEkiZClhK1haeRjinJWWAuvNdE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; b=qqpUefXp2Pt1BUHBRjuHTj/edAl1V1oar4s6j61ATG3w4j/SApo13vCKTIpFNB7bA5 OuiblFb5nUBCRthCVBh8LgViFYfepGzMKdyZcwsK5Y4m5zNzMfzg1z83yBzrSxn4eID9 nxS19EM/5suanXIa0F4B/tRlwWyUFYoul0V1s= Original-Received: by 10.42.147.136 with SMTP id n8mr3826297icv.154.1300557779229; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:02:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [10.0.0.2] ([64.128.19.234]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id wf3sm2703684icb.9.2011.03.19.11.02.57 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:02:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <31189122.post@talk.nabble.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.210.169 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:80282 Archived-At: 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.=20 > 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." >=20 > 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