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From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: XTerm always gives out an error message concerning a font
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 16:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <70d5141f-b1c6-538c-11ab-75614280fd4a@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANZ2p_fQA6JqAi2p4711-LZ2=2njj15GUZUbPZ=8g+dU7hAJbA@mail.gmail.com>

On 2017-07-06 05:39, Wouter van Doorn wrote:
> I have to admit to being almost totally ignorant on fonts under X11.
> So not only do I not know how to fix what's happeing (and I found
> nothing relevant by searching via google), but I think I also lack the
> knowledge to make a mess of it. In fact: I never touched anything to
> do with fonts after installing. So I would not expect anything to be
> wrong, really.
> Here's the error, and it crops up every single time an term is started:
> /usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font
> "-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-18-120-100-100-C-180-ISO10646-1"

Upgrade xterm - see:
https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2017-06/msg00353.html

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-06 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-06 11:39 Wouter van Doorn
2017-07-06 16:45 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2017-07-06 16:58   ` Wouter van Doorn
2017-07-06 20:54     ` Brian Inglis
2017-07-06 21:32       ` Wouter van Doorn
2017-07-12 23:52         ` Thomas Dickey

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