Why I am getting missing font errors while starting application via ssh X11 Forwarding?

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Issue

  • After starting an application remotely via ssh, getting below error messages and X become very slow .

    twm: warning: font for charset ISO8859-3 is lacking.
twm: warning: font for charset ISO8859-4 is lacking.
twm: warning: font for charset ISO8859-13 is lacking.

  • X11 packages are installed on the system and SSH X11 Forwarding is enabled, but xclock and other GUI applications
    could not execute as expected. Getting following warnings:

    Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
/usr/bin/twm: warning: font for charset ISO8859-3 is lacking.
/usr/bin/twm: warning: font for charset ISO8859-4 is lacking.
/usr/bin/twm: warning: font for charset ISO8859-13 is lacking.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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