On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:35:13 +0100 Jan Djärv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello. > > This is so far inside fontconfig and the theme engine that you use, > so I suspect nothing Emacs does can help. It seem to crash on > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cu12.pcf.gz, have you tried to remove > that file? It may be a bad font (I don't know what cu12.pcf is, > Courier 12?). According to the output of strings it is: -MUTT-ClearlyU-Medium-R-Normal--17-120-100-100-P-123-ISO10646-1. According to http://www.xfree86.org/current/fonts3.html, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cu12.pcf.gz is the "main ClearlyU font" and this "family of fonts provides a set of 12 pt, 100 dpi proportional fonts with many of the glyphs needed for Unicode text". According to that source, the full font name has 101 instead of 123 in the width slot; I wonder if that is relevant to my problem? I grepped the Emacs sources for ClearlyU (ignoring case) and got no hits. > An idea why Emacs crashes and no other may be that Emacs uses only > non-AA fonts, whereas Firefox and other uses AA fonts mostly. But > it is hard to tell. The next time I get a segfault, I'll try to see if removing that font helps (though I wonder if it will have bad consequences for other applications ...). > If removing that file doesn't help, you could try to switch to a > more basic theme. It hadn't occurred to me to try switching themes. I use the gtk-qt-engine, which allows Gtk applications to use the selected KDE theme. I don't know if this is related, but this theme used to cause a problem for Emacs (and only Emacs among Gtk applications), namely, the color of the non-text part of the Emacs frame could not be changed by setting the background-color face in Emacs (that is, the background color only showed behind textual character; the rest of the window a different color). Other Gtk themes did not have this problem. Then I found on the web a report that compiling the gtk-qt-engine from source solves similar issues and I tried that and it indeed solved the Emacs problem. > But all this is just shots in the dark, I'm afraid. Thanks for your suggestions. Steve Berman _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
