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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 &


  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-03  4:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <537310537.2884061.1625260886292.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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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