On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 2:39 PM, lee wrote:
> Jorge Almeida writes:
>>> Even when there is a buggy font it picks, it shouldn't crash.
>>>
>> Sure, but it doesn't seem to happen to anyone else. I'm reluctant to
>> blame the software if I'm not sure I didn't do something wrong...
>
> Compiling a v
Jorge Almeida writes:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 7:49 PM, lee wrote:
>
>>> The menu has the same fonts when the first in the path is
>>> /usr/share/fonts/100dpi or /usr/share/fonts/Type1/; when
>>> /usr/share/fonts/75dpi it uses smaller fonts. So it seems that it
>>> wants /usr/share/fonts/?
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 7:49 PM, lee wrote:
>>>
>> The menu has the same fonts when the first in the path is
>> /usr/share/fonts/100dpi or /usr/share/fonts/Type1/; when
>> /usr/share/fonts/75dpi it uses smaller fonts. So it seems that it
>> wants /usr/share/fonts/?dpi. But if /usr/share/fonts/mis
Jorge Almeida writes:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 12:40 PM, lee wrote:
>> Jorge Almeida writes:
>>
>
>>>
>>> It is a voodoo (i.e. fonts) problem. Things work for me now, with -fp
>>> in the Xserver command line and /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ before
>>> /usr/share/fonts/misc/. I would prefer to unde
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 12:40 PM, lee wrote:
> Jorge Almeida writes:
>
>>
>> It is a voodoo (i.e. fonts) problem. Things work for me now, with -fp
>> in the Xserver command line and /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ before
>> /usr/share/fonts/misc/. I would prefer to understand what happens
>> rather tha
Jorge Almeida writes:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 10:46 AM, lee wrote:
>
>>>
>> I'm using fvwm. I was having trouble with xterm once when I still used
>> Fedora, and though I'm not sure, results might be different with
>> different WMs (I seem to remember something about that).
>
> I tried fvwm a
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
Jorge
>>
>
> Actually, I just had a thought. I stumbled onto a very weird fonts bug
> some years ago where Firefox would crash on loading certain pages. It
> was something very stupid, all fonts need to have world-readable
> permissions. If a f
On 12/18/2016 09:28 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Daniel Frey wrote:
>> On 12/18/2016 07:25 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>>>
>>> The logs complain about helvetica, and I found similar stuff in the
>>> net (not necessarilly about xterm). This appears to be a font problem,
On 12/18/2016 09:28 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Daniel Frey wrote:
>> On 12/18/2016 07:25 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>>>
>>> The logs complain about helvetica, and I found similar stuff in the
>>> net (not necessarilly about xterm). This appears to be a font problem,
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 10:46 AM, lee wrote:
>>
> I'm using fvwm. I was having trouble with xterm once when I still used
> Fedora, and though I'm not sure, results might be different with
> different WMs (I seem to remember something about that).
I tried fvwm and there was no difference. Not a
Jorge Almeida writes:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 1:44 PM, lee wrote:
>> Jorge Almeida writes:
>>
>
>>
>> This works for me:
>>
>
> Nope. No change.
>
>>
>> Perhaps it has to do with a font not being available in the size needed
>> for the menu?
>>
>
> Maybe, but I'm out of ideas.
>
>
>>
>>> can'
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 1:44 PM, lee wrote:
> Jorge Almeida writes:
>
>
> This works for me:
>
Nope. No change.
>
> Perhaps it has to do with a font not being available in the size needed
> for the menu?
>
Maybe, but I'm out of ideas.
>
>> can't imagine why the menu would require an "usable
Jorge Almeida writes:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Dec 2016 02:48:28 -0800 Jorge Almeida wrote:
>>> I tried Ctrl+click (any button) on an xterm window, to bring up the
>>> menu (which I never used before; after reading a recent thread about X
>>> (in)s
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 12/18/2016 07:25 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>>
>> The logs complain about helvetica, and I found similar stuff in the
>> net (not necessarilly about xterm). This appears to be a font problem,
>> which is essentially voodoo to me. xterm crashin
On 12/18/2016 07:25 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>
> The logs complain about helvetica, and I found similar stuff in the
> net (not necessarilly about xterm). This appears to be a font problem,
> which is essentially voodoo to me. xterm crashing instead of just
> failing to bring up the menu seems to
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2016 02:48:28 -0800 Jorge Almeida wrote:
>> I tried Ctrl+click (any button) on an xterm window, to bring up the
>> menu (which I never used before; after reading a recent thread about X
>> (in)security, I was trying to acces
On Sun, 18 Dec 2016 02:48:28 -0800 Jorge Almeida wrote:
> I tried Ctrl+click (any button) on an xterm window, to bring up the
> menu (which I never used before; after reading a recent thread about X
> (in)security, I was trying to access the secure mode for password
> entering).
>
> This crashes x
I tried Ctrl+click (any button) on an xterm window, to bring up the
menu (which I never used before; after reading a recent thread about X
(in)security, I was trying to access the secure mode for password
entering).
This crashes xterm. The logs:
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-adobe-helvetica-bo
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