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xterm aborts upon ctrl+click

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24279: closed (xterm aborts upon ctrl+click)
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 15:02:02 +0000

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From: John Darrington <john <at> darrington.wattle.id.au>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Bug in xterm and/or fontconfig
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 15:18:06 +0200

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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



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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 24279-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, John Darrington <john <at> darrington.wattle.id.au>,
 Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#24279: Bug in xterm and/or fontconfig
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 16:01:55 +0100

Hello,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> We can also fix this once and for all with this patch:
>>
>> diff --git a/gnu/services/xorg.scm b/gnu/services/xorg.scm
>> index 0da3397da..8f285b29a 100644
>> --- a/gnu/services/xorg.scm
>> +++ b/gnu/services/xorg.scm
>> @@ -113,6 +113,8 @@
>>          (file-append font-alias "/share/fonts/X11/100dpi")
>>          (file-append font-alias "/share/fonts/X11/misc")
>>          (file-append font-alias "/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic")
>> +        (file-append font-misc-misc               ;default fonts for xterm
>> +                     "/share/fonts/X11/misc")
>>          (file-append font-adobe75dpi "/share/fonts/X11/75dpi")))
>>  
>>  (define* (xorg-configuration-file #:key
>>
>>
>> That adds 4.1 MiB, but it saves user headaches, so I think it’s worth it.
>>
>> I’ll go ahead and push that if there are no objections.
>
> And another bug down! :) Thanks for fixing it; LGTM!

Awesome, I went ahead and pushed as
4afc903a8c1b9cb19c0341b5cd2ea80a34974f25.

Thanks everyone!

Ludo’.

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