> Maybe I am an edge case but I was shocked to see dwm crashing given
> that it was otherwise rock solid for a decade+.
> I understand that the problem may lie with Xft and maybe that is what
> needs to be fixed, but it still kind of makes dwm look bad.
>
> I mean failure to render a glyph should never take down the Xorg - can
> anyone think of a more intelligent way to defend against this?
Well, it takes down dwm, so it takes down X.
In my xinitrc I use;
while :; do
ssh-agent dwm
done
So a dwm crash will never crash X (dwm state, like which window has
which tag, will be lost, but X clients will keep working uninterrupted).
