To reproduce the segmentation fault: dmenu -fn "-windows-montecarlo-medium-r-normal--11-110-72-72-c-60-microsoft-cp1252" <<< hello
The culprit is loadfont(). This font[1] triggers XLoadQueryFont(), and loadfont() fails in the for loop. At least that's what my quick debug indicated. I did a diff between dmenu 4.3.1 and 4.4. Do we really want this twisted pretentious piece of code inside loadfont()? I for one like the 4.3.1 code better. And it worked. Patch attached inline. I do it the humble way. [1] The font is MonteCarlo: http://bok.net/MonteCarlo/downloads/MonteCarlo-PCF.tgz --- dmenu-4.4-a/draw.c 2011-07-19 20:31:28.000000000 +0000 +++ dmenu-4.4-b/draw.c 2011-07-22 12:34:35.026736893 +0000 @@ -121,23 +121,25 @@ initfont(DC *dc, const char *fontstr) { Bool loadfont(DC *dc, const char *fontstr) { char *def, **missing, **names; - int i, n = 1; + int i, n; XFontStruct **xfonts; if(!*fontstr) return False; - if((dc->font.set = XCreateFontSet(dc->dpy, fontstr, &missing, &n, &def))) + if((dc->font.set = XCreateFontSet(dc->dpy, fontstr, &missing, &n, &def))) { n = XFontsOfFontSet(dc->font.set, &xfonts, &names); - else if((dc->font.xfont = XLoadQueryFont(dc->dpy, fontstr))) - xfonts = &dc->font.xfont; - else - n = 0; - - for(i = 0; i < n; i++) { - dc->font.ascent = MAX(dc->font.ascent, xfonts[i]->ascent); - dc->font.descent = MAX(dc->font.descent, xfonts[i]->descent); - dc->font.width = MAX(dc->font.width, xfonts[i]->max_bounds.width); + for(i = 0; i < n; i++) { + dc->font.ascent = MAX(dc->font.ascent, xfonts[i]->ascent); + dc->font.descent = MAX(dc->font.descent, xfonts[i]->descent); + dc->font.width = MAX(dc->font.width, xfonts[i]->max_bounds.width); + } + } + else if((dc->font.xfont = XLoadQueryFont(dc->dpy, fontstr))) { + dc->font.ascent = dc->font.xfont->ascent; + dc->font.descent = dc->font.xfont->descent; + dc->font.width = dc->font.xfont->max_bounds.width; } + if(missing) XFreeStringList(missing); return (dc->font.set || dc->font.xfont);