Possible xfwm4 bug?

[Olivier Fourdan]

Michael,

I truly doubt this is xfwm4 bug. The following error :

** (xfwm4:26091): WARNING **: Cannot open font file for font Verdana 10

is a problem that is seen with all gtk apps when people upgrade to
XFree-4.3. I think it's related to pango. My guess is that it's a
unmanaged upgrade on the host system.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 21:45, Michael Jakl wrote:
> Hi,
> I've a strange behaviour since my last debian upgrade:
> 1. xfce doesn't start with GDK_USE_XFT=1 (or better xfwm4 doesn't start)
> 2. when I start a program I get thousands of these (in the error log):
> frame.c, line 68: entering frameBottom
> frame.c, line 112: entering frameHeight
> frame.c, line 57: entering frameTop
> frame.c, line 68: entering frameBottom
> frame.c, line 101: entering frameWidth
> frame.c, line 35: entering frameLeft
> frame.c, line 46: entering frameRight
> frame.c, line 101: entering frameWidth
> frame.c, line 35: entering frameLeft
> frame.c, line 46: entering frameRight
> frame.c, line 57: entering frameTop
> frame.c, line 57: entering frameTop
> frame.c, line 57: entering frameTop
> and xfwm4 is eating up my CPU a few seconds.
> 
> The problems started after upgrading my debian box today. I've got a new
> libxft2 - maybe it's a problem with it? But with GDK_USE_XFT=0 it
> shouldn't be used?
> 
> I've also tried to gather some information with gdb (and GDK_USE_XFT=1):
> workspaces.c, line 175: entering workspaceSetCount
> workspaces.c, line 191: Desktop area computed : (0,0,0,0)
> hints.c, line 538: entering init_net_desktop_params
> hints.c, line 515: entering set_net_workarea
> 
> ** (xfwm4:26091): WARNING **: Cannot open font file for font Verdana 10
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x40679af8 in XftCharIndex () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2
> 
> After that my keyboard is dead - just clicking around with the mouse is
> possible.
> 
> Please help,
> Michael
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Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org>
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