Re: error--> (error "unknown font type" "Xft")

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de>]

Am Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:43:04 +0200
schrieb Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de>:

> Am Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:52:37 +0900 (JST)
> schrieb Teika Kazura <teika lavabit com>:
> 
> > Hi, Petter. Please try the attached patch.
> > 
> > I confirmed that thrown signal breaks sawfish. So I introduced an
> > optional argument in get-font-typed which suppresses signal. When
> > non-nil, it just returns nil.
> > 
> > Once sawfish starts, then (get-font-typed "foo" "bar") sends an
> > error signal, but all happens is that it prints the error message,
> > as expected.
> > 
> > To Chris:
> > If this patch is ok, I'll write the doc, so please wait to commit to
> > git repo.
> > 
> > Good luck,
> > Teika (Teika kazura)
> 
> O.K. this is fixing that issue. (tested it on my own) Great Teika.
> 
> I'll make the 1.3.5.3 release now, without the doc-part of this patch,
> as this is the final release of 1.3x (...) for 1.5.0, which does not
> have this bug, therefore I'll wait 'till you wrote the doc.
> 
> Thanks a lot for your efforts,
> Chris

Well, I fixed that issue in 1.3.5.3 by fixing up the autotools and
Teikas patch additionally fixed that issue ... so we fixed that issue
twice :) (Petter tested an snapshot tarball for me)

Chris