Subject: Re: bug#43177: Bug: Emacs 27.1 hangs forever in `FcCharSetSubtractCount' from '/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1'

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2020 17:10:30 +0200

>>>>> On Thu, 03 Sep 2020 16:48:04 +0200, Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> said:

    Andreas> On Sep 03 2020, Robert Pluim wrote:
    >> Does it go away if you set font-backend . ftcrhb in your frame
    >> parameters (assuming youʼre using Cairo)?

    Andreas> That completely removes the delay.

So the solution is easy: just deprecate and remove the 'x' backend :-)

Robert