Jorge Almeida <jjalme...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 7:49 PM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: > >>>> >>> 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. >> >> That sounds like a bug in xterm, picking a font that makes it crash, >> depending on in which order they appear (are being searched through). >> >> Even when there is a buggy font it picks, it shouldn't crash. >> > Sure, but it doesn't seem to happen to anyone else. I'm reluctant to > blame the software if I'm not sure I didn't do something wrong...
Compiling a version of xterm with debugging info or using strace on it might give a hint as to where things go wrong. Perhaps it is a particular font, or something not related to fonts at all.
