can't load font '-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'

[mike632t]

Problem

On SuSE Leap 15.4, attempting to start x48 from the command line results in the following error.

~> x48
x48: using XShm extension.
x48: FATAL ERROR, exit.
  - can't load font '-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'
  - Please change resource 'connectionFont'
~>

Workaround

Use a different font size.

echo "*connectionFont: -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" >> ~/.Xdefaults
xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults