bug#24279: Bug in xterm and/or fontconfig

[Alex Kost]

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".

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

-- 
Alex