BTW, emacs 27 does not crash using that lisp line.


On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 2:20 PM Vinicius José Latorre <viniciusjl@gmail.com>
wrote:

> > OK, then the crash is a known problem: you cannot change the font
> > backend once the session started, you can only do that in X resources.
> > Previously, XFT was your original backend, but now it's HarfBuzz.
>
> I think that emacs should be more robust about this and do not crash for
> any bad value.
>
> > Why are you doing this?  What happens/doesn't work if you remove this
> > line?
>
> Well, I use emacs since 1992, I don't remember why I set this.
>
> Removing this line all works like a charming.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 4:18 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> > From: Vinicius José Latorre <viniciusjl@gmail.com>
>> > Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 19:21:22 -0300
>> > Cc: 39865@debbugs.gnu.org
>> >
>> > I found this line in my ~/.emacs that causes the crash:
>> >
>> > (push '(font-backend xft x) default-frame-alist)
>>
>> OK, then the crash is a known problem: you cannot change the font
>> backend once the session started, you can only do that in X resources.
>> Previously, XFT was your original backend, but now it's HarfBuzz.
>>
>> Why are you doing this?  What happens/doesn't work if you remove this
>> line?
>>
>