On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 01:31:02PM +0000, Tom Schwindl wrote: > -## BadLength X error in Xft when trying to render emoji > - > -Xft makes st crash when rendering color emojis with the following error: > - > -"X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or internal > Xlib length error)" > - Major opcode of failed request: 139 (RENDER) > - Minor opcode of failed request: 20 (RenderAddGlyphs) > - Serial number of failed request: 1595 > - Current serial number in output stream: 1818" > - > -This is a known bug in Xft (not st) which happens on some platforms and > -combination of particular fonts and fontconfig settings. > - > -See also: > -https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxft/issues/6 > -https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107534 > -https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1498269
I don't think removing the entire section is the right idea, since there are distros which are still on older versions. > -The solution is to remove color emoji fonts or disable this in the fontconfig > -XML configuration. As an ugly workaround (which may work only on newer > -fontconfig versions (FC_COLOR)), the following code can be used to mask color > -fonts: Simply changing this paragraph to say that the solution is to upgrade libXft should be the proper way to go IMO. - NRK
