From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82D73138CC5 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 22:44:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78679E0878; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 22:44:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D62AE086D for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 22:44:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ybcyq-0005ti-Nz for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 23:43:57 +0100 Received: from 64.69.39.107 ([64.69.39.107]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 23:43:56 +0100 Received: from w41ter by 64.69.39.107 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 23:43:56 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Please explain X fonts? Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 15:43:45 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20150327021529.GA2159@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.69.39.107 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 In-Reply-To: <20150327021529.GA2159@waltdnes.org> X-Archives-Salt: 3a90d813-df03-4694-8883-a26fe5d9c76a X-Archives-Hash: 2f7857dc54fb52114153b66932d1e3c8 On 03/26/2015 07:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > When I do a control-right-click on an xterm to manipulate fonts, the > xterm crashes. I had the same problem once. IIRC, strace showed me that xterm was trying to load the "default" font but there was no value set for "default". Somehow I managed to set the "default" font, but I can't remember how it did it. Maybe someone else can supply details?