Font problems in cygwinx

[Robert McBroom]

On 7/2/21 5:58 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2021-07-02 15:21, mcforum wrote:
>> The legends in the heading for emacs have turned into boxes. the text 
>> in buffers is normal.
>> What interaction is causing this? The X11 emacs is unusable emacs 
>> -w32 works.
>
> If you were using Windows fonts in Emacs, that could be caused by 
> Windows packages that decide it's a good idea to replace your existing 
> installed versions of Windows fonts by theirs e.g. LibreOffice updates 
> mess up the appearance of all my Windows, X, and Cygwin apps until I 
> reboot.
>
> It seems to be caused by their ancient installer approach and 
> aggressive font replacement policy.
>
> If something like that could be a cause of your problem, try rebooting 
> to see if that clears up the problem.
>
Used "Courier New" for years. Just a monospace font for data entry.