Re: switching font backends in .emacs.desktop causes crash

[Robert Pluim]

martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:

>>> This looks like Bug#23386: Segfault when messing with font-backend.
>>
>> It is in fact exactly that. I tried the patch there, it works for
>> me.
>
> Which one did you try?  Noam's or Dmitry's?
>

Dmitry's

>> How come it never went in?
>
> Bceause Eli normally doesn't use X.  And Dmitry left us a month later
> because we offended him after he broke the tooltip code on NS.  Maybe
> we have better luck with Noam.

OK. Iʼm unlikely to be using X much in the near future, and the cause
is pretty obscure, so thereʼs no hurry for it to go in. [1]

Robert

Footnotes:
[1]  And in the glorious GTK only future, there will be only one font
     backend :-)