John Darrington (2016-08-22 16:41 +0300) wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:36:26AM +0300, Alex Kost wrote:
> John Darrington (2016-08-21 16:18 +0300) wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Pressing Ctrl with any mouse button displays menus for me without any
> error. Did you install any font in your profile? Try for example,
> "guix package -i font-dejavu". Perhaps you will also need to run
> "fc-cache -f".
>
> So that means that font-dejavu should be an input of xterm. Shall I make that
> change?
I have no idea :-) I don't know why you get that error and how to fix
it, I just made a guess.
--
Alex
