Re: font-related hanging / general brokenness

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

>>> $ xfd -fn '-bitstream-dejavu sans 
>>> mono-medium-r-normal--16-*-0-0-c-0-iso8859-1'
>>> Warning: Cannot convert string "-bitstream-dejavu sans 
>>> mono-medium-r-normal--16-*-0-0-c-0-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
>>> xfd:  no font to display
> >
> > ?!?!  Then what is the result of:
> >
> > % xlsfonts -fn '-bitstream-dejavu sans 
> > mono-medium-r-normal--16-*-0-0-c-0-iso8859-1'

> $ xlsfonts -fn '-bitstream-dejavu sans 
> mono-medium-r-normal--16-*-0-0-c-0-iso8859-1'
> -bitstream-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-1

Weird.

It seems that your X, perhaps the module supporting TTF, has
a bug.  I don't know an easy workaround for such a problem.
Checking each font if it is surely openable or not in the
font-selection routine is too much costly.  Changing the
order of font drivers from x,xft to xft,x will solve
(actually just hide) the problem.  But, why don't you remove
such unusable fonts from your X font path?

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Kenichi Handa
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