Jorge Almeida <jjalme...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Andrew Savchenko <birc...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On Sun, 18 Dec 2016 02:48:28 -0800 Jorge Almeida wrote: >>> I tried Ctrl+click (any button) on an xterm window, to bring up the >>> menu (which I never used before; after reading a recent thread about X >>> (in)security, I was trying to access the secure mode for password >>> entering). >>> >>> This crashes xterm. The logs: >> >> On xterm-325 "secure keyboard" mode works perfectly fine for me. >> >> Try to change font used by xterm, there are many ways to do this, I >> prefer to put in ~/.Xresources: >> >> xterm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold >> xterm*faceSize: 15 >> >> Anyway, application should not crash, so if your system is >> up-to-date (not only xterm, but Xorg, freetype and friends as well, >> so better update all system) and bug is still here, please report >> it on bugzilla. >> > My system (stable) is up-to-date, and I actually have XTerm*faceName: > xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:style=book:antialias=true in > .Xresources. > > The logs complain about helvetica, and I found similar stuff in the > net (not necessarilly about xterm). This appears to be a font problem, > which is essentially voodoo to me. xterm crashing instead of just > failing to bring up the menu seems to be an xterm bug indeed, but the > real problem is what to do to solve the missing fonts problem.
This works for me: XTerm*termName: xterm-256color XTerm*activeIcon: true XTerm*background: black XTerm*foreground: green XTerm*cursorColor: Red XTerm*multiScroll: on XTerm*jumpScroll: on xterm*FaceName: xft:Source Code Pro:pixelsize=14:style=Regular XTerm*ScrollBar: false XTerm*SaveLines: 1024 There's a Gentoo package for that font (which I can highly recommend). Perhaps it has to do with a font not being available in the size needed for the menu? > I have xterm emerged with "openpty truetype unicode" USE flags. I same here > can't imagine why the menu would require an "usable ISO8859 font"... Try using another window manager?
