I was using the search. 'search forums' very first selection and got this, then I back it to the page again, using the arrow in the web browser, refreshed the page, tried again and got this same message.
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so I am posting the question I was looking for first in here in lue of using the search function.
for Eterm there is an issue using this program in some distros where the fonts that it has been programmed to use, the distros no longer support the fonts, I assume, because Eterm is always giving an error looking for fonts , cannot find them bailing out message.
it seems to me that Eterm should be able to use the same fonts that xterm uses, and it still works just fine for as 'old' as it is.
in the Eterm font.c file there is this bit of code for default fallback fonts. I was thinking due to lack of knowing how to tell it to change its complete set of fonts it is suppose to look for and use, or how ever this is setup , just change these few lines to confourm to what 'todays' distros are using for basic X11 fonts that xterm even uses, so that this issuse can be rid of.
Code:
} else {
name = "fixed";
#ifdef MULTI_CHARSET
fallback = "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1";
#else
fallback = "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1";
#endif
}
what I was looking for was what is that format called, so I can further my search to find something that will work in Eterm by just replacing that with two different ones that the majority of distos now have within their repo if needed to be install so this old yet still usable terminal can work. thus removing the head ache of them errors.
I find that it is this one iso10646-1, though it has to be both else it would not error out with a no fonts found, then bail out and not work.
