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 emoji '๐' (U+1F3D6) on it's > title: > > $ gvim '๐' > > dwm will crash with: > > dwm: fatal error: request code=139, error code=16 > 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: 523 > Current serial number in output stream: 538 > > I tried to just ignore this error on teh XErrorHandler, but it only made > dwm to stay crashed without exiting. > > I did some research and other applications are affected. It seems to be > a problem with Xft and google noto fonts. > > And there is this guy saying Xft is old and we should migrate to > fontconfig: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1498269#c1 > > I could try to make a patch. What do you think? > > <3 > > -- > Igor >
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. I cannot reproduce the issue on my machine, but there are other reports that have a similar issue. Feel free to debug it and send a patch. -- Kind regards, Hiltjo
