Subject: Re: bug#56869: 29.0.50; segfault, "assertion 'GDK_IS_DEVICE (device)' failed"

From: Po Lu <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 14:37:06 +0800

Joe Corneli <[email-masked]> writes:

> Thanks for the suggestions, and for helping me to understand the
> debugging symbols etc.
>
> I’ve updated my build for Lucid.  Looking around I think --with-xft is
> also needed in that case.

If you want color Emoji support, you should be using Cairo instead of
Xft.  Both are enabled by default, with Cairo taking precedence over
Xft, so --with-xft is redundant on a system with Cairo installed.