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Re: no characters


From: Kai Großjohann
Subject: Re: no characters
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 08:17:37 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.090019 (Oort Gnus v0.19) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

"Aydos juca" <jucaaydos@hotmail.com> writes:

> When I start emacs I get a message:
>
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

It means that Emacs can't find this font.  Helvetica sounds like a
proportional font.  You won't be happy using Emacs with a
proportional font.  You should be using a monospaced font.

Try setting the font in ~/.Xdefaults.
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file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature)


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