DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org A63453857005
Subject: Re: Font problems in cygwinx
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
References: <537310537.2884061.1625260886292.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
 <537310537.2884061.1625260886292@mail.yahoo.com>
 <03fbe5cb-2b95-4fb1-1d48-320fd324e0a1@cornell.edu>
From: Robert McBroom <mcforum@bellsouth.net>
Message-ID: <069f7d28-46fa-564d-aced-f656765eee09@bellsouth.net>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2021 00:28:01 -0400
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/78.11.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <03fbe5cb-2b95-4fb1-1d48-320fd324e0a1@cornell.edu>
Content-Language: en-US
Precedence: list
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"
Errors-To: cygwin-bounces+archive-cygwin=delorie.com@cygwin.com
Sender: "Cygwin" <cygwin-bounces+archive-cygwin=delorie.com@cygwin.com>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

On 7/2/21 5:46 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> On 7/2/2021 5:21 PM, mcforum wrote:
>> The legends in the heading for emacs have turned into boxes. the text 
>> in buffers is normal.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "legends in the heading".  And when you 
> say "have turned into boxes", are you saying that the problem just 
> recently started?  Or have you always found X11 emacs unusable?
>
The labels on the drop down menus and their contents. Been using emacs 
on cygwin for decades.
>> What interaction is causing this? The X11 emacs is unusable emacs 
>> -w32 works.
>
> My best guess is that the problem is caused by your customizations.  
> What happens if you run 'emacs -Q'?
Don't do customizations. -Q doesn't help
>
> If you still see the problem with 'emacs -Q', please give a more 
> detailed bug report, following the guidelines here:
>
>   https://cygwin.com/problems.html
>
> And please say exactly how you're starting emacs.

cygwin terminal-->startxwin-->cygwin terminal

emacs . -fh -geometry 100-512 &


-- 
Problem reports:      https://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                  https://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:        https://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:     https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple