From: Robert McBroom <mcforum@bellsouth.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Font problems in cygwinx
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2021 00:28:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <069f7d28-46fa-564d-aced-f656765eee09@bellsouth.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03fbe5cb-2b95-4fb1-1d48-320fd324e0a1@cornell.edu>
On 7/2/21 5:46 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> On 7/2/2021 5:21 PM, mcforum wrote:
>> The legends in the heading for emacs have turned into boxes. the text
>> in buffers is normal.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "legends in the heading". And when you
> say "have turned into boxes", are you saying that the problem just
> recently started? Or have you always found X11 emacs unusable?
>
The labels on the drop down menus and their contents. Been using emacs
on cygwin for decades.
>> What interaction is causing this? The X11 emacs is unusable emacs
>> -w32 works.
>
> My best guess is that the problem is caused by your customizations.
> What happens if you run 'emacs -Q'?
Don't do customizations. -Q doesn't help
>
> If you still see the problem with 'emacs -Q', please give a more
> detailed bug report, following the guidelines here:
>
> https://cygwin.com/problems.html
>
> And please say exactly how you're starting emacs.
cygwin terminal-->startxwin-->cygwin terminal
emacs . -fh -geometry 100-512 &
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-03 4:28 UTC|newest]
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2021-07-02 21:21 ` mcforum
2021-07-02 21:46 ` Ken Brown
2021-07-03 4:28 ` Robert McBroom [this message]
2021-07-03 15:53 ` Ken Brown
2021-07-02 21:58 ` Brian Inglis
2021-07-03 4:33 ` Robert McBroom
2021-07-03 16:41 ` Brian Inglis
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