Bug#879936: xterm quits with "Selected font has no non-zero width for ISO-8859-1 encoding"
Package: xterm
Version: 330-1
Severity: normal
Having an xterm with "Allow font ops" being enabled, it happens to quit
after some of these:
* use "xtermcontrol --font=<N>" with <N> being eg. 0 or 5
* choose a different size from the font menu
"xterm" doesn't crash, it just gives the above message and quits - which
would've been unfortunate, hadn't I be running tmux at the time ;)
Still, simply quitting just because the user asks for a different font size
is bad behaviour - and real data might be lost (generated but not-yet-saved
console output).
What I really wanted to achieve was to switch programmatically between
different configured font sizes; this doesn't seem to work as expected for
me. I guess this is a bit buggy as well.
(Using "--font=5" it only becomes a bit larger, "--font=1" keeps it the
same, "--font=3" has no effect, and then choosing a different size in the
menu made my xterm quit again...)
Thanks!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_AT:de (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.24-17
ii libfontconfig1 2.12.3-0.2
ii libice6 2:1.0.9-2
ii libtinfo5 6.0+20170902-1
ii libutempter0 1.1.6-3
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.13-1+b2
ii libxft2 2.3.2-1+b2
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.3-1+b3
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.12-1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1
ii xbitmaps 1.1.1-2
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii x11-utils 7.7+3+b1
Versions of packages xterm suggests:
pn xfonts-cyrillic <none>
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