From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: bug#24279: Bug in xterm and/or fontconfig Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:41:52 +0200 Message-ID: <20160822134152.GA22645@jocasta.intra> References: <20160821131806.GA7072@jocasta.intra> <877fb9ci9h.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34326) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbpUM-0007kW-VK for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 09:42:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbpUI-0001ya-Pa for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 09:42:05 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:38858) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbpUI-0001yW-M6 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 09:42:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bbpUI-0000T8-CE for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 09:42:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <877fb9ci9h.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Alex Kost Cc: John Darrington , 24279@debbugs.gnu.org --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:36:26AM +0300, Alex Kost wrote: John Darrington (2016-08-21 16:18 +0300) wrote: =20 > In GuixSD: > > guix package -i xterm strace > strace xterm > > xterm starts as it should, however observe many failed calls simila= r to: > open("/gnu/store/b484nvn9nnr3ddclpz2fma9yxmimg2jj-fontconfig-2.11.9= 4/lib/libXdmcp.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) =3D -1 ENOENT (No such file or di= rectory) > > > 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 =20 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 t= hat 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): =20 XTerm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono XTerm*faceSize: 12 =20 Presumably there is a default font which should work without any resource e= xplicitly set? J' --=20 Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encryted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAle7ASAACgkQimdxnC3oJ7NmuwCeIYcQjDv8HYlkb5uj/iTiQsRt CO8AnjciQFeyQrgEvZC6F5b+nMCTfQwO =cpV3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1--