From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>, 24279@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24279: Bug in xterm and/or fontconfig
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2016 12:02:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y43a3c8w.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h99zmixm.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Thu, 01 Sep 2016 17:03:33 -0400")
Mark H Weaver (2016-09-02 00:03 +0300) wrote:
> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> John Darrington (2016-08-21 16:18 +0300) wrote:
[...]
>>> Now in the xterm, hold down Ctrl and press any mouse button.
>>> The xterm aborts with the following messages:
>>> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
>>> Error: Aborting: no font found
>>
>> Pressing Ctrl with any mouse button displays menus for me without any
>> error.
>
> Fwiw, I see the same problem with 'xterm' on both of my GuixSD laptops,
> on mips64el and i686. The i686 laptop is running a full GNOME desktop
> environment, and the mips64el laptop runs a somewhat minified Xfce
> environment.
OK, apparently it's broken by default since you all have this problem.
I think I just have some settings on my system that make it work
properly. For example, I start X server with all font paths that I
need (I don't use SLIM), not sure if it relates.
"xset -q" gives me:
...
Font Path:
<profile>truetype,<profile>X11/misc,<profile>X11/100dpi,<profile>X11/75dpi,built-ins
where <profile> is my guix profile with fonts.
Also I don't use 'font-alias' package, instead I use a "pure"
modification of it as described at
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2015-12/msg00022.html>.
But, well, I have no idea why xterm menus work for me :-)
--
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-02 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-21 13:18 bug#24279: Bug in xterm and/or fontconfig John Darrington
2016-08-22 8:36 ` Alex Kost
2016-08-22 13:41 ` John Darrington
2016-08-22 18:39 ` Alex Kost
2016-08-28 14:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-29 9:20 ` Alex Kost
2016-09-01 21:03 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-09-02 9:02 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2017-05-04 6:54 ` bug#24279: XTerm menu doesn't work (no font found error) Maxim Cournoyer
2017-11-28 12:41 ` ng0
2017-11-29 12:56 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2017-11-28 7:14 ` bug#24279: Bug in xterm and/or fontconfig Oleg Pykhalov
2017-11-29 10:01 ` Alex Kost
2017-11-30 9:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-01 2:10 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2017-12-01 15:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
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