I managed to detect the twofold origin of my xterm-crashing-on-Ctrl+click problem:
.Xresources has a line XTerm*geometry: 80x22 It should be XTerm*VT100.geometry: 80x22 It seems this is a common error (source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xterm#Menus) The other is the font path: I had (reported by "xset q"): /usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/ This is more or less what the man page for Xserver says is the default. However, the first entry is breaking things: removing /usr/share/fonts/misc/ causes xterm to have the expected behaviour re menus. So, what is wrong here? $ ls /usr/share/fonts/misc/ 10x20.pcf.gz 6x10.pcf.gz 7x13O.pcf.gz 9x15B.pcf.gz fonts.scale 12x13ja.pcf.gz 6x12.pcf.gz 7x13.pcf.gz 9x15.pcf.gz k14.pcf.gz 18x18ja.pcf.gz 6x13B.pcf.gz 7x14B.pcf.gz 9x18B.pcf.gz micro.pcf.gz 18x18ko.pcf.gz 6x13O.pcf.gz 7x14.pcf.gz 9x18.pcf.gz nil2.pcf.gz 4x6.pcf.gz 6x13.pcf.gz 8x13B.pcf.gz encodings.dir 5x7.pcf.gz 6x9.pcf.gz 8x13O.pcf.gz fonts.alias 5x8.pcf.gz 7x13B.pcf.gz 8x13.pcf.gz fonts.dir Should I remove /usr/share/fonts/misc/ from the font path? Will it not break something else? And what is the standard way to set the font path? I know I can do it via the -fp flag of Xorg (I start X via xinit), but I assume most people don't do this. Thanks, Jorge Almeida
