Re: [dev] [dwm] Crash with emojis on title bar

2019-01-10 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 04:36:25AM +, Jakub Labath wrote: > Hi > > So I experienced this problems myself , this was roughly my journey. > > I messed with fonts on my gentoo installing some from google some time > after X would start crashing when surfing web. > Eventually got lucky and found

Re: [dev] [dwm] Crash with emojis on title bar

2019-01-09 Thread Martin Tournoij
> Maybe I am an edge case but I was shocked to see dwm crashing given > that it was otherwise rock solid for a decade+. > I understand that the problem may lie with Xft and maybe that is what > needs to be fixed, but it still kind of makes dwm look bad. > > I mean failure to render a glyph should

Re: [dev] [dwm] Crash with emojis on title bar

2019-01-09 Thread Jakub Labath
Hi So I experienced this problems myself , this was roughly my journey. I messed with fonts on my gentoo installing some from google some time after X would start crashing when surfing web. Eventually got lucky and found this website https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch that reproduces the

Re: [dev] [dwm] Crash with emojis on title bar

2018-02-12 Thread Igor Fontana
>>> >> 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.

Re: [dev] [dwm] Crash with emojis on title bar

2018-02-12 Thread Igor Fontana
>> >> 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. >> >>

Re: [dev] [dwm] Crash with emojis on title bar

2018-02-12 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 12:50:17PM +, Cág wrote: > Laslo Hunhold wrote: > > >> 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

Re: [dev] [dwm] Crash with emojis on title bar

2018-02-12 Thread Cág
Laslo Hunhold wrote: >> 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

Re: [dev] [dwm] Crash with emojis on title bar

2018-02-11 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 13:28:55 -0800 Eric Pruitt wrote: Dear Eric, > 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

Re: [dev] [dwm] Crash with emojis on title bar

2018-02-11 Thread Eric Pruitt
On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 08:55:17PM +, Stancil, Robert Andrew wrote: > Unless I'm mistaken, doesn't the pango patch[1] answer this question? Or > does the color emoji crash happen for both pango and xft? > > https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/pango/ Just because that patch exists doesn't mean

Re: [dev] [dwm] Crash with emojis on title bar

2018-02-11 Thread Stancil, Robert Andrew
Unless I'm mistaken, doesn't the pango patch[1] answer this question? Or does the color emoji crash happen for both pango and xft? https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/pango/ On 02/10/2018 04:28 PM, Eric Pruitt wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 08:13:27PM +0100, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: >> It doesn't

Re: [dev] [dwm] Crash with emojis on title bar

2018-02-10 Thread Eric Pruitt
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 05:30:16PM -0200, Igor Fontana wrote: > > It doesn't sound like a dwm issue, but rather Xft. I won't add more > > dependencies to dwm. Rather we should get rid of Xft. > > yes, teh guy said something about fontconfig+harfbuzz-ng. > > > I cannot reproduce the issue on my

Re: [dev] [dwm] Crash with emojis on title bar

2018-02-10 Thread Eric Pruitt
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 08:13:27PM +0100, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: > It doesn't sound like a dwm issue, but rather Xft. I won't add more > dependencies to dwm. Rather we should get rid of Xft. And replace it with what? Eric

Re: [dev] [dwm] Crash with emojis on title bar

2018-02-10 Thread Igor Fontana
> It doesn't sound like a dwm issue, but rather Xft. I won't add more > dependencies to dwm. Rather we should get rid of Xft. yes, teh guy said something about fontconfig+harfbuzz-ng. > I cannot reproduce the issue on my machine, but there are other reports that > have a similar issue. Feel free

Re: [dev] [dwm] Crash with emojis on title bar

2018-02-10 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 04:50:59PM -0200, Igor Fontana wrote: > I received an email today which had a emoji on it's subject and every > time I tried to open it, X would crash. It took me some time to figure > out what was crashing X, and it was dwm. > > If I try to open some window with this

[dev] [dwm] Crash with emojis on title bar

2018-02-10 Thread Igor Fontana
I received an email today which had a emoji on it's subject and every time I tried to open it, X would crash. It took me some time to figure out what was crashing X, and it was dwm. If I try to open some window with this emoji '' (U+1F3D6) on it's title: $ gvim '' dwm will crash with: