On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 07:12:04PM -0400, Andrew Moise wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 05:20 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > Is this for "any" file, or for only particular ones? > > (There was a similar report last year that was apparently in the X libraries). > > Er, sorry, my report was a little incoherent I guess. Running vim on > no file (just 'vim') crashed the xterm for me. Opening every file I > tried (only 2-3) crashed as soon as I entered insert mode. Now, though, > it doesn't ever crash, and I haven't done any upgrading or reconfiguring > in the interim. Huh. It happened that I had rebooted between > installing xserver-xorg and noticing this problem, but maybe there were > some lingering upgrade issues... > If the problem reappears, I'll try to track it down in more detail. > It's very noticeable. :-) ok. I made a quick check, but it didn't crash for me. > > Also - is this for the bitmap fonts, or for some TrueType font? > > I'm not sure what fonts xterm is using; is there an easy way to check? The easy way to check is if the "TrueType Fonts" is checked in the right-control-mouse menu. You could have some resource set to start xterm in that mode, but normally it uses the bitmap fonts. (I was checking this to see if there was some odd configuration detail that wasn't apparent). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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