On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 01:31:02PM +0000, Tom Schwindl wrote:
> -## BadLength X error in Xft when trying to render emoji
> -
> -Xft makes st crash when rendering color emojis with the following error:
> -
> -"X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error)"
> - Major opcode of failed request: 139 (RENDER)
> - Minor opcode of failed request: 20 (RenderAddGlyphs)
> - Serial number of failed request: 1595
> - Current serial number in output stream: 1818"
> -
> -This is a known bug in Xft (not st) which happens on some platforms and
> -combination of particular fonts and fontconfig settings.
> -
> -See also:
> -https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxft/issues/6
> -https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107534
> -https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1498269
I don't think removing the entire section is the right idea, since there
are distros which are still on older versions.
> -The solution is to remove color emoji fonts or disable this in the fontconfig
> -XML configuration. As an ugly workaround (which may work only on newer
> -fontconfig versions (FC_COLOR)), the following code can be used to mask color
> -fonts:
Simply changing this paragraph to say that the solution is to upgrade
libXft should be the proper way to go IMO.
- NRK
Received on Thu Sep 15 2022 - 15:45:56 CEST