From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: robert@cochranmail.com, shelvacu@gmail.com,
38569@debbugs.gnu.org, robert-emacs@cochranmail.com
Subject: bug#38569: 27.0.50; Certain emoji crashes with "X protocol error: BadLength"
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 11:14:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838sng8u44.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2y2vgvbtv.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:01:16 +0100)
> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: Robert Cochran <robert@cochranmail.com>, shelvacu@gmail.com,
> robert-emacs@cochranmail.com, 38569@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:01:16 +0100
>
> Eli> The problem is that AFAIR the "font renderer" that is to blame in this
> Eli> case is XFT, and it doesn't seem to be actively maintained lately.
> Eli> (Robert Pluim will correct me if I'm wrong.) That's why we are using
> Eli> the face-ignored-fonts workaround.
>
> Thatʼs correct. The real solution is 'stop using XFT', but I donʼt
> think we can require cairo just yet, much as Iʼd like to do so.
>
> Eli, we could install my patch to filter out all colour fonts (see
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2019-11/msg00409.html>),
> that should reduce the amount of whack-a-mole required.
I guess that's okay to install, given the problems, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-13 9:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-11 23:41 bug#38569: 27.0.50; Certain emoji crashes with "X protocol error: BadLength" Robert Cochran
2019-12-12 8:50 ` Robert Pluim
2019-12-12 21:34 ` Robert Cochran
2019-12-13 6:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-13 9:01 ` Robert Pluim
2019-12-13 9:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-12-13 9:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-13 9:43 ` Robert Pluim
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