On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:36:26AM +0300, Alex Kost wrote: John Darrington (2016-08-21 16:18 +0300) wrote: > In GuixSD: > > guix package -i xterm strace > strace xterm > > xterm starts as it should, however observe many failed calls similar to: > open("/gnu/store/b484nvn9nnr3ddclpz2fma9yxmimg2jj-fontconfig-2.11.94/lib/libXdmcp.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > > > 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. Did you install any font in your profile? Try for example, "guix package -i font-dejavu". Perhaps you will also need to run "fc-cache -f". So that means that font-dejavu should be an input of xterm. Shall I make that change? To make Xterm use a font I want, I have these lines in my ~/XTerm (it can also be placed in ~/.Xresources I think): XTerm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono XTerm*faceSize: 12 Presumably there is a default font which should work without any resource explicitly set? J' -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encryted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.