X forwarding emacs with XMing

X forwarding emacs with XMing

[CastingPearlsnight]

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?
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Re: X forwarding emacs with XMing

[Perry Smith]

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

Re: X forwarding emacs with XMing

[CastingPearlsnight]

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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