Re: [dev] [dwm] crash on xsetroot emoji character

From: Joseph Graham <joseph_AT_xylon.me.uk>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:27:30 +0100

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 12:09:42AM -1000, Gaetan Bisson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running the latest git snapshot of dwm on Arch Linux. It crashes
> (and the X server along with it) deterministically when I run:
>
> xsetroot -name $(printf '\xf0\x9f\xa4\x93')
>
> That's an emoji character. It was in some Web page's title and got
> picked up by my browser as window title, which got dwm to crash...
>
> Given I'm not really sure what the best approach to fix this would be
> (filter such characters out in gettextprop?) I thought I'd just report
> this here. Let me know if there's any additional information I can
> provide.
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Gaetan
>

Hi,

Doesn't crash for me in Debian Jessie.

-Joseph
Received on Tue Oct 25 2016 - 12:27:30 CEST

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