"xterm -fn '...' automatically switches to an unavailable font

"xterm -fn '...' automatically switches to an unavailable font

[Siegmar Gross]

Hi,

I've updated my system to the latest package versions and I use
Cygwin x86_64 on top of Windows 10. Unfortunately, I get some
warnings when a start "xterm".

hermes fd1026_2 40 xlsfonts | grep -- 
"-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1"
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1

hermes fd1026_2 41 xterm -fn 
'-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1'
xterm: cannot load font "-Misc-Fixed-medium-R-*-*-15-140-75-75-C-180-ISO10646-1"
xterm: cannot load font "-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-15-140-75-75-C-180-ISO10646-1"

hermes fd1026_2 42 xterm
xterm: cannot load font "-Misc-Fixed-medium-R-*-*-15-140-75-75-C-180-ISO10646-1"
xterm: cannot load font "-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-15-140-75-75-C-180-ISO10646-1"
xterm: cannot load font "-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1"

Does anybody know why the 11th field will be automatically switched from
"90" to "180"? Is it possible to avoid the warning? Thank you very much for
any help in advance.


Best regards

Siegmar

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Re: "xterm -fn '...' automatically switches to an unavailable font

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Siegmar Gross" <siegmar.gross@informatik.hs-fulda.de>
| To: cygwin@cygwin.com
| Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 6:09:23 AM
| Subject: "xterm -fn '...' automatically switches to an unavailable font
| 
| Hi,
| 
| I've updated my system to the latest package versions and I use
| Cygwin x86_64 on top of Windows 10. Unfortunately, I get some
| warnings when a start "xterm".
| 
| hermes fd1026_2 40 xlsfonts | grep --
| "-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1"
| -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1
| 
| hermes fd1026_2 41 xterm -fn
| '-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1'
| xterm: cannot load font
| "-Misc-Fixed-medium-R-*-*-15-140-75-75-C-180-ISO10646-1"
| xterm: cannot load font
| "-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-15-140-75-75-C-180-ISO10646-1"
| 
| hermes fd1026_2 42 xterm
| xterm: cannot load font
| "-Misc-Fixed-medium-R-*-*-15-140-75-75-C-180-ISO10646-1"
| xterm: cannot load font
| "-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-15-140-75-75-C-180-ISO10646-1"
| xterm: cannot load font
| "-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1"
| 
| Does anybody know why the 11th field will be automatically switched from
| "90" to "180"? Is it possible to avoid the warning? Thank you very much for
| any help in advance.

It's a misleading warning (xterm was marking it internally as a problem, but
when I reorganized things the "internal" status was lost - will fix in the next
update).  You can stifle the warning by setting the fontWarnings resource to 0,
as shown in the manual:

https://invisible-island.net/xterm/manpage/xterm.html#VT100-Widget-Resources:fontWarnings


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