>>> >> Pango is a much heavier library than Xft, so I would be surprised if >>> >> Hiltjo was suggesting that was use Pango. >>> > I'll give Hiltjo the freedom to share as much as he desires about what >>> > he's doing, but "maybe" he was talking about a solution that is >>> > developed in-house. >>> >>> Or maybe the solution is to not use any of these font rendering >>> libraries, as it was some years ago before the Xft patch was merged? >>> >> >> There is no pleasing everyone. > > i guess i can live without color emojis lol > > really, i dont care about displaying emojis at all, i just wanted dwm > not crashing because of some :). > > i agree that having dwm depend on some huge graphics lib is not desirable. > > can anyone think of a way to catch and ignore teh error at least? i > managed to catch it on xerror(), and it prevented dwm from exiting, > but it remained unusable. > > or perhaps substitute color emojis with black and white ones on teh fly? > > <3 > > PS: im X11 noob
oh yea, and this is wat i did: diff --git a/dwm.c b/dwm.c index ec6a27c..da05680 100644 --- a/dwm.c +++ b/dwm.c @@ -2081,6 +2081,13 @@ wintomon(Window w) int xerror(Display *dpy, XErrorEvent *ee) { + /* FIXME: avoid crashing because of big glyphs (emojis) that dont fit + * title bar */ + int opcode, event, error; + if (XQueryExtension(dpy, "RENDER", &opcode, &event, &error) + || (ee->request_code == opcode && ee->error_code == BadLength)) + return 0; + if (ee->error_code == BadWindow || (ee->request_code == X_SetInputFocus && ee->error_code == BadMatch) || (ee->request_code == X_PolyText8 && ee->error_code == BadDrawable) -- Igor