[Xastir] Redhat 8.0 Font Problems w/Xastir

[Gerry Wheeler]

On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 19:16, Curt Mills wrote:
> Several users have reported seeing these messages in the Xterm:
> 
>     Warning:
>     Name: create_appshell text_output
>     Class: XmTextField
>     Character '\171' not supported in font.  Discarded.
> 
> Found this on a Netscape/Mozilla web page:  "This is a bug in some
> versions of the OpenWindows X server that causes it to pick fonts
> which are only 1 pixel high, making text fields unusable. It may
> help to re-order your font path with "xset fp" to move or exclude
> the "Adobe" fonts from the list. We do not yet know of a reliable
> workaround."

I was having (finally) a look at this. I read the man page for xset, but
I don't see a way to have it show the current list of fonts so I can
determine which one(s) to exclude. Anybody else more familiar with xset?
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