From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: switching font backends in .emacs.desktop causes crash
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 17:14:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24l9entoi.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5C5DA622.1030907@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:54:10 +0100")
martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:
>>> This looks like Bug#23386: Segfault when messing with font-backend.
>>
>> It is in fact exactly that. I tried the patch there, it works for
>> me.
>
> Which one did you try? Noam's or Dmitry's?
>
Dmitry's
>> How come it never went in?
>
> Bceause Eli normally doesn't use X. And Dmitry left us a month later
> because we offended him after he broke the tooltip code on NS. Maybe
> we have better luck with Noam.
OK. Iʼm unlikely to be using X much in the near future, and the cause
is pretty obscure, so thereʼs no hurry for it to go in. [1]
Robert
Footnotes:
[1] And in the glorious GTK only future, there will be only one font
backend :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-08 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-08 12:09 switching font backends in .emacs.desktop causes crash Robert Pluim
2019-02-08 14:20 ` martin rudalics
2019-02-08 14:49 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-08 15:54 ` martin rudalics
2019-02-08 16:14 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2019-02-08 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-08 16:16 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-08 21:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
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