From: Robert McBroom <mcforum@bellsouth.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Font problems in cygwinx
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2021 00:33:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f1c2423a-e3db-7b74-d60f-a870ad24469b@bellsouth.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2250cc92-7e4a-bc10-05f2-d7ec90ce6870@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
On 7/2/21 5:58 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2021-07-02 15:21, mcforum wrote:
>> The legends in the heading for emacs have turned into boxes. the text
>> in buffers is normal.
>> What interaction is causing this? The X11 emacs is unusable emacs
>> -w32 works.
>
> If you were using Windows fonts in Emacs, that could be caused by
> Windows packages that decide it's a good idea to replace your existing
> installed versions of Windows fonts by theirs e.g. LibreOffice updates
> mess up the appearance of all my Windows, X, and Cygwin apps until I
> reboot.
>
> It seems to be caused by their ancient installer approach and
> aggressive font replacement policy.
>
> If something like that could be a cause of your problem, try rebooting
> to see if that clears up the problem.
>
Used "Courier New" for years. Just a monospace font for data entry.
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2021-07-02 21:21 ` mcforum
2021-07-02 21:46 ` Ken Brown
2021-07-03 4:28 ` Robert McBroom
2021-07-03 15:53 ` Ken Brown
2021-07-02 21:58 ` Brian Inglis
2021-07-03 4:33 ` Robert McBroom [this message]
2021-07-03 16:41 ` Brian Inglis
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