From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: When I start emacs from a shell the window opens but shows only boxes instead of text. The shell displays this error/warning message: Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct However, xemacs works fine and emacs works fine when started on a different machine/Xserver through ´ssh -X´. Therefore, I guess that I would need some other X11 package. But which? Should this not be reflected in the rpm dependencies? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): emacs-21.3-12 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.type ´emacs´ in bash 2. 3. Actual Results: error message in bash and emacs window without text in buffer Expected Results: emacs window with normal text Additional info:
It seems to be the 75dpi bitmap fonts that are required. For FC2 they're in xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts. For FC3 that is fonts-xorg-75dpi. Fixing in next build.
Thanks, Jens. It works fine, now.