On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 03:17:01PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Am Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 07:55:33PM -0500 schrieb Thomas Dickey: > > On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 09:23:55AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > Am Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 04:53:24PM -0400 schrieb Thomas Dickey: > > > > > > $ grep font /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm | grep -v ^! > > > > > > *VT100.utf8Fonts.font: fixed > > > > what locale settings are you using? > > > > (that might be relevant - or the choice of desktop/window-manager) > > $ locale > LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE= > LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_ALL=
I tried that - no change
> Desktop environment is xfce4.
>
> > > Sorry its "comment".
> > >
> > > > > (the grep seems to indicate that the latter is meant)
> > > > >
> > > > > > crash with segmentation fault when not finding some specified font.
> >
> > I suppose the problem is something along the lines of the X server
> > returning some error in using the fonts. If it were TrueType fonts,
> > I'd use strace to verify that they're opened -- but for bitmap
> > fonts, that's done on the server side.
>
> I admit I'm fine with any nicely readable font. I once considered the
> terminus fonts to fit this requirement and never found any reason
> to change this.
>
> > > The crash happens for
> > >
> > > $ xrdb -query
> > > *VT100.utf8Fonts.font: fixed
> > > XTermVT100.faceSize: 22
> > > XTerm*geometry: 111x36
> >
> > hmm - I'm still not seeing _this_ problem.
> > (by the way, the geometry resource is over-broad, making the font-menu
> > less than useful).
>
> I've made the Geometry that size to fit exactly a quarter of my screen
> fitting 4 xterms at one time. Xfce4 places these intelligently in a
> 2x2 matrix.
Something like this will work, but fixing the problem with the menus:
XTerm*VT100.geometry: 111x36
It's in the FAQ:
https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#tiny_menus
> > I used xcfe4 for testing, on a virtual machine.
> >
> > My most recent snapshot (from 2022/11/01) didn't work - some problem
> > with X and the window manaager), so I upgraded from 2022/10/29,
> > to get a workable machine.
> >
> > Given that (I also have the terminus font installed),
> > I used "xrdb -load" with these resources, and ran xterm
> > from the Debian package. It looks okay to me - no crash.
>
> I'm using Debian packages exclusively - I have no time to spent
> extra fancy things. BTW. I'm observing the very same bug on my
> second laptop I'm using for traveling (but my desktop with the
> same setup works without any problem)
>
> Could you send me the full command line
> "xrdb -load ??"
I pasted the text from earlier mail as "bad.ad" (attached),
and loaded it with
xrdb -load bad.ad
> I could check here. What strace call should I send to track
> down the issue. Please note that while I'm an experienced
I'd just
strace -o trace.log -s 1024 xterm
to capture a long trace (~200kb),
and look to see if there's something interesting where xterm dies.
I also ran xterm using -report-fonts, which shows the fonts opened.
> Debian user and long year developer I would not consider myself
> an X expert.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
> --
> http://fam-tille.de
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Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net>
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