On 18 December 2010 01:33, Marshall, Lee wrote:
> One has a windows icon and the text "Warning: Missing charsets in String to 
> FontSet conversion"
> The other has the X icon with a menu bar and "sh-3.2$".
>
> My biggest objection to this is just the clutter of having a second, useless 
> window open displaying this warning.  Searching the internet, I found 
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10948 and installed the 
> additional fonts: font-isas-misc, font-jis-misc and font-daewoo-misc without 
> eliminating the warning.

The second window is a Windows console. Windows creates that
automatically because xterm is (arguably wrongly) marked as a console
application. Avoid it by invoking xterm through the 'run' or 'run2'
tools. See their man pages for further details.

Andy

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