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From: "Vinicius José Latorre" <viniciusjl@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 39865@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39865: 28.0.50; Emacs crash
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 14:20:42 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEt1T7dF_=aPWQrryWUMJRbsOVxscuOb6fC-QudTwxGmWGNWRg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837dzyuf20.fsf@gnu.org>

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> OK, then the crash is a known problem: you cannot change the font
> backend once the session started, you can only do that in X resources.
> Previously, XFT was your original backend, but now it's HarfBuzz.

I think that emacs should be more robust about this and do not crash for
any bad value.

> Why are you doing this?  What happens/doesn't work if you remove this
> line?

Well, I use emacs since 1992, I don't remember why I set this.

Removing this line all works like a charming.



On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 4:18 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Vinicius José Latorre <viniciusjl@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 19:21:22 -0300
> > Cc: 39865@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > I found this line in my ~/.emacs that causes the crash:
> >
> > (push '(font-backend xft x) default-frame-alist)
>
> OK, then the crash is a known problem: you cannot change the font
> backend once the session started, you can only do that in X resources.
> Previously, XFT was your original backend, but now it's HarfBuzz.
>
> Why are you doing this?  What happens/doesn't work if you remove this
> line?
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-06 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-02  1:39 bug#39865: 28.0.50; Emacs crash Vinicius José Latorre
2020-03-02  8:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-05  1:03   ` Vinicius José Latorre
2020-03-05 22:21     ` Vinicius José Latorre
2020-03-06  7:18       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-06 17:20         ` Vinicius José Latorre [this message]
2020-03-06 17:24           ` Vinicius José Latorre
2020-03-06 17:53           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-10 14:29             ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-10 14:52               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-10 14:54                 ` Vinicius José Latorre
2020-03-10 15:20                   ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-10 19:03                     ` Vinicius José Latorre
2020-03-11  7:33                       ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-11 20:45                         ` Vinicius José Latorre
2020-03-12  9:39                           ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-10 15:15                 ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-11 16:58                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-12  9:33                     ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-12 10:25                       ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-13  0:44                         ` Vinicius José Latorre
2020-03-13  9:35                           ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-13 14:09                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-13 15:09                               ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-17 10:16                                 ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-17 15:15                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-17 16:06                                     ` Robert Pluim

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