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From: keith@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Keith Packard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Run-away xdm process -- NEED HELP
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Date: 3 Oct 90 21:21:41 GMT
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> It generates the following messages repeatedly in the error log
> file:
>     Warning: Cannot convert string "-bitstream-charter-medium-r\
>     -normal--19-180-75-75-p-106-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
>     Error: Unable to load any useable ISO8859-1 font

This is caused by a gratuitous change to the X toolkit which occured just
before R4 shipped - it used to allow the application to continue by using the
default font found in the GC; now the toolkit calls exit when this conversion
fails.  To circumvent this problem (until R5), find a font which does exist on
your X terminal (fixed is a good choice) and add the following line to the
Xresources file in the xdm config directory:

*XtDefaultFont: fixed

You may want to add this line to your own X resources as well, to allow
applications which specify non-existant fonts to work against your server.