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Subject: Re: Emacs not working correctly under the new cygwin server.
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For a similar problem I eventually went to the cygwin installer, unchecked
hide obsolete packages, went into the _obsolete area, selected everything
beginning with xorg-x11-f (I would assume the XFree86-f* packages would work
too) and restarted the X Windows server; actually by rebooting the computer.

While it looked like the font files were in the right place before there
must have been a little bit of magic and the old installation packages do
not appear to harm anything.  No doubt the next walk through the source code
will turn up the offending module(s), but this is the quick and dirty
workaround.  


Bugzilla from ycollet AT freesurf DOT fr wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've have updated my cygwin install and since the installation of the  
> new Xwindows server, emacs doesn't work anymore.
> It starts correctly, but some fonts seems to be missing.
> The menu bar is displayed correctly, but inside the buffer, everything  
> is displayed as small rectangles.
> I think it is a problem related to fonts because when I start under a  
> bash terminal, some warnings are displayed.
> 
> YC
> 
> $ emacs
> Warning: Cannot convert string  
> "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*"
>   to type FontStruct
> Warning: Cannot convert string  
> "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
> " to type FontStruct
> -- 
> Transmis via le Webmail FreeSurf: http://www.freesurf.fr
> 
> 
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