Am Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 07:55:33PM -0500 schrieb Thomas Dickey:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 09:23:55AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Am Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 04:53:24PM -0400 schrieb Thomas Dickey:
> > > > > $ grep font /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm | grep -v ^!
> > > > > *VT100.utf8Fonts.font: fixed
>
> what locale settings are you using?
>
> (that might be relevant - or the choice of desktop/window-manager)
$ locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
Desktop environment is xfce4.
> > Sorry its "comment".
> >
> > > > (the grep seems to indicate that the latter is meant)
> > > >
> > > > > crash with segmentation fault when not finding some specified font.
>
> I suppose the problem is something along the lines of the X server
> returning some error in using the fonts. If it were TrueType fonts,
> I'd use strace to verify that they're opened -- but for bitmap
> fonts, that's done on the server side.
I admit I'm fine with any nicely readable font. I once considered the
terminus fonts to fit this requirement and never found any reason
to change this.
> > The crash happens for
> >
> > $ xrdb -query
> > *VT100.utf8Fonts.font: fixed
> > XTermVT100.faceSize: 22
> > XTerm*geometry: 111x36
>
> hmm - I'm still not seeing _this_ problem.
> (by the way, the geometry resource is over-broad, making the font-menu
> less than useful).
I've made the Geometry that size to fit exactly a quarter of my screen
fitting 4 xterms at one time. Xfce4 places these intelligently in a
2x2 matrix.
> I used xcfe4 for testing, on a virtual machine.
>
> My most recent snapshot (from 2022/11/01) didn't work - some problem
> with X and the window manaager), so I upgraded from 2022/10/29,
> to get a workable machine.
>
> Given that (I also have the terminus font installed),
> I used "xrdb -load" with these resources, and ran xterm
> from the Debian package. It looks okay to me - no crash.
I'm using Debian packages exclusively - I have no time to spent
extra fancy things. BTW. I'm observing the very same bug on my
second laptop I'm using for traveling (but my desktop with the
same setup works without any problem)
Could you send me the full command line
"xrdb -load ??"
I could check here. What strace call should I send to track
down the issue. Please note that while I'm an experienced
Debian user and long year developer I would not consider myself
an X expert.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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