GNU bug report logs - #24279
xterm aborts upon ctrl+click

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Package: guix;

Reported by: John Darrington <john <at> darrington.wattle.id.au>

Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 13:19:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #36 received at 24279 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust <at> gmail.com>
To: John Darrington <john <at> darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: 24279 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24279: Bug in xterm and/or fontconfig
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 10:14:34 +0300

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Hello John,

John Darrington <john <at> darrington.wattle.id.au> writes:

> In GuixSD:
>
> guix package -i xterm strace
> strace xterm
>
> xterm starts as it should,  however observe many failed calls similar to:
>  open("/gnu/store/b484nvn9nnr3ddclpz2fma9yxmimg2jj-fontconfig-2.11.94/lib/libXdmcp.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>
>
> Now in the xterm, hold down Ctrl and press any mouse button.
> The xterm aborts with the following messages:
>  Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
>  Error: Aborting: no font found

I solved this issue by:

  - Install a font-misc-misc as Mike Hunt from Gentoo forum suggests¹:

    $ guix package -i font-misc-misc

  - From "(guix) Application Setup"²:

    $ xset +fp ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/X11/misc


I wonder could we do this automatically after installing XTerm?


¹ https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6158302.html#6158302
² https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#X11-Fonts


Oleg.

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