Re: X protocol error:

[Sam Steingold]

Jan Djärv wrote:
> address@hidden skrev:
> > GNU Emacs 22.0.92.5 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
> >  of 2007-01-08 on quant8
> >
> > Just got this:
> ...
> > (gdb) c
> > Continuing.
> > X protocol error: BadFont (invalid Font parameter) on protocol request 55
> >
> > Dunno what this might mean, nor how to reproduce this.
>
> It means that somewhere you (or someone else) gave Emacs a font name that does
> not exist on your system.

a crash on invalid argument in the middle of an interactive work (as 
opposed to startup) is kind of ungraceful.
I thought that if an invalid font it supplied, something else is 
substituted instead (e.g., plain if no italic, or similar size if the 
specific size if not found...)