On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 10:52:38PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Thomas Dickey dixit: > > >"Recently" could be something overlooked in #362's change > > No, 362 is the current one, and I definitely had this in > the previous version shipped in Debian as well, but I can’t > narrow it down further than that. According to apt history > log, that was 361. I see - nothing comes to mind other than recalling some comment that fontconfig wouldn't actually provide bitmap fonts. > >On the other hand (if it's not specific to #362), a lot of the > >font/display problems aren't xterm (and if the problem doesn't show up > >on macOS, I wouldn't notice it right away). > > Hmmh. It’s a regular X11 BDF/PCF font, so at least the > ugly fontconfig/freetype/… combination doesn’t affect > this, but as such you indeed won’t be able to see this > on a Macintosh. > > Since I can _somewhat_ reproduce this (three “sudo true” > in quick succession did it right now), I could try to > bisect releases until I find one, if that helps? If you're going to compile it, the debug-trace can be useful (--enable-trace). If not, the -report-fonts option is helpful. At the moment I'm closing out a set of changes for dialog, intending to work on xterm for a week or so. If I can reproduce it, I'll see what I can do. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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