Re: Unable to load any usable fontset

[Kevin Rodgers]

Daniel Klein wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to run an emacs on a remote server, forwarding the display to my 
> box. I am not the guy who installed emacs on that server, but I have root 
> access if I need to fix anything. When I try to run xemacs (gnu emacs opens 
> inside the terminal, which is not the behaviour I'm used to from another 
> remote server, where gnu emacs opens its own window on my display properly) I 
> get this error:
>
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
>
> I'm using XEmacs 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" [Lucid] (i386-suse-linux, 
> Mule) of Sat Jun 23 2001. Could anyone maybe quickly tell me where to look? 


Is the DISPLAY environment variable set, before you invoke Emacs


        echo $DISPLAY

or after

        M-: (getenv "DISPLAY") RET


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