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

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