From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>, 24279@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24279: Bug in xterm and/or fontconfig
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 17:03:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h99zmixm.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877fb9ci9h.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Mon, 22 Aug 2016 11:36:26 +0300")
Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.
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.
I remember that 'xterm' worked for me in the past, and specifically that
the pop-up menus raised by Ctrl-clicks worked, on both of these
machines. However, at some point in the distant past I switched to
gnome-terminal, so I'm not sure when 'xterm' became broken.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-01 21:04 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 [this message]
2016-09-02 9:02 ` Alex Kost
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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