Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nedit-5.3-4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
 
 launching nedit over ssh.
ssh from a Red Hat Linux 9 system to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3
system and run nedit.
The following error messages are logged in the background nedit fails
to function correctly (there is no way to select a file without the
extra font errors occuring regardless of font selection in the
preferences/default settings tab:

$ nedit
Cannot convert string "fixed" to type FontStruct


 Name: Text
    Class: XmTextField
    Character '\162' not supported in font.  Discarded.
 
 
    Name: Text
    Class: XmTextField
    Character '\143' not supported in font.  Discarded.


  


Additional info:
After further investigation:
error message is given in line 4226/4233 approx of nedit source:
preferences.c                                                        
                       
This points to the Motif XMText widget library
called in the beginning of the code as:
Xm/Text.h
                                                                     
          
This may simply refer to a missing fixed font alias or font or may be 
related to openmotif incompatibilities?
version info:
rh9 openmotif-2.2.2-14
RHEL AS 3 openmotif21-2.1.30-8 and openmotif-2.2.2-16


an ssh connection from the same RHL 9 to an RHEL AS2.1 machine and
then running nedit version nedit-5.1.1-10
with openmotif versions:
RHL 9 openmotif-2.2.2-14
RHEL AS2.1 openmotif version openmotif-2.1.30-11
shows no font errors and works fine.

also selecting the same 'known good' font that this nedit session is
using for the previous rhl to rhel3 connection using the command:
nedit -font '-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*' 
does not prevent the font errors.