On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 12:40 PM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: > Jorge Almeida <jjalme...@gmail.com> writes: >
>> >> It is a voodoo (i.e. fonts) problem. Things work for me now, with -fp >> in the Xserver command line and /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ before >> /usr/share/fonts/misc/. I would prefer to understand what happens >> rather than blindly apply a fix, but anyway. > > Does xterm use different fonts for the menu depending on in which order > the directories appear in the font path? > > The menu has the same fonts when the first in the path is /usr/share/fonts/100dpi or /usr/share/fonts/Type1/; when /usr/share/fonts/75dpi it uses smaller fonts. So it seems that it wants /usr/share/fonts/?dpi. But if /usr/share/fonts/misc/ comes first, xterm crashes. Jorge