Re: [hackers] Re: [libsl][PATCH] Workaround Xft BadLength X error

From: Martin Tournoij <martin_AT_arp242.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 05:00:22 -0500

On Sun, Feb 17, 2019, at 22:13, Thomas Spurden wrote:
> Excerpts from Thomas Spurden's message of January 16, 2019 9:51 pm:
> > Modify the fontconfig pattern to prefer non-color fonts, and discard any
> > selected font which has the color flag set. Using these fonts with Xft is just
> > going to generate a BadLength X error.
>
> I have received a report from a Debian user that dwm doesn't compile on Debian
> stable with this change. It appears Debian 9 has a version of fontconfig
> (2.11.0) from before FC_COLOR was added (2.11.91).

Note that Fontconfig 2.11.0 was released in 2013:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/ChangeLog-2.11.0
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