Jorge Almeida <jjalme...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 12:40 PM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: >> Jorge Almeida <jjalme...@gmail.com> writes: >> > >>> >>> It is a voodoo (i.e. fonts) problem. Things work for me now, with -fp >>> in the Xserver command line and /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ before >>> /usr/share/fonts/misc/. I would prefer to understand what happens >>> rather than blindly apply a fix, but anyway. >> >> Does xterm use different fonts for the menu depending on in which order >> the directories appear in the font path? >> >> > The menu has the same fonts when the first in the path is > /usr/share/fonts/100dpi or /usr/share/fonts/Type1/; when > /usr/share/fonts/75dpi it uses smaller fonts. So it seems that it > wants /usr/share/fonts/?dpi. But if /usr/share/fonts/misc/ comes > first, xterm crashes.
That sounds like a bug in xterm, picking a font that makes it crash, depending on in which order they appear (are being searched through). Even when there is a buggy font it picks, it shouldn't crash.
