Re: font-related hanging / general brokenness

[Miles Bader]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:
>> > % 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?

Well... perhaps it is an X bug, but it's a standard debian installation
AFAIK.  If I'm having problems, I expect many more people will as well.

If use the `-l' option to xlsfonts, btw, it _doesn't_ show the bogus entry:

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

$ xlsfonts -l -fn '-*-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-normal--16-*-0-0-c-0-iso8859-1'
DIR  MIN  MAX EXIST DFLT PROP ASC DESC NAME
-->    0  255  some    0   36  17    6 -dejavu-dejavu sans 
mono-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-1

-Miles

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