Lenin> Hello there, Lenin> I installed (recent) Red Hat linux distribution in my Lenin> computer. I am big fan of xemacs. When I work on my Lenin> computer xemacs works without any problem. But when I Lenin> connect to my computer through a remote computer and start Lenin> xemacs I get the bunch of error messages (see the attached Lenin> text file) and finally with the message [1]+ Segmentation Lenin> fault xemacs. Xemacs does not even generate any core file. Hello R.B., please use Help->Send Bug Report... or M-x report-emacs-bug as suggested in http://www.xemacs.org/Debug/index.html This will tell us enough about your XEmacs installation so that we should be able to help you. If XEmacs does not build or start up, please send any version and configuration information you have to xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org with any mailer as plain text (MIME attachments are OK, please don't send HTML mail). On linux type ulimit -c unlimited in the shell before starting XEmacs from it, else you might not get a core file. please use Help->Send Bug Report... or M-x report-emacs-bug as suggested in http://www.xemacs.org/Debug/index.html This will tell us enough about your XEmacs installation so that we should be able to help you. If XEmacs does not build or start up, please send any version and configuration information you have to xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org with any mailer as plain text (MIME attachments are OK, please don't send HTML mail). On linux type ulimit -c unlimited in the shell before starting XEmacs from it, else you might not get a core file. Hope this helps, Adrian Lenin> Please let me know where the problem is. Xemacs worked on Lenin> remote systems in the first two weeks without any problem. Lenin> Thanks! Lenin> Regards, Lenin> Lenin. Lenin> ______________________________________________ Lenin> Dr. R.B. Lenin Lenin> Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Lenin> University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1 Lenin> B-2610 Antwerp, Belgium Lenin> Tel: +32-3-8202416 Fax: +32-3-8202421 Lenin> Email: lenin(a)uia.ua.ac.be Lenin> Url: http://schickard.uia.ac.be/ Lenin> ______________________________________________ -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/

I bet you're using Reflection X, huh? [Andy, could you take a look at making the Lucid GUI font stuff a little more robust to braindamaged X servers?] Lenin> Please let me know where the problem is. On the remote system; it doesn't have a Helvetica bold font installed. Either install a helvetica font on that system, or find out what fonts it supports using xlsfonts -display remote:0.0 (probably, but it might be:10.0 or :0.1 or something like that) from the redhat system, and then use xrdb or .Xresources or something to change the following: *menubar*Font: -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* *popup*Font: -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* ! Gui elements share this font Emacs.gui-element.attributeFont: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* ! Font in the Motif dialog boxes. ! (Motif uses `fontList' while most other things use `font' - if you don't *XmDialogShell*FontList: -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* *XmTextField*FontList: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* *XmText*FontList: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* *XmList*FontList: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* ! Font in the Athena dialog boxes. *Dialog*Font: -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* ! XIM fontset (defaults to system fontset default) ! *EmacsFrame.FontSet: -dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-s*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py