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Error initializing xcb after Arch xorgproto 2018.1-1 update #9
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Hmm, I am also on arch, but it is still working for me. Can you manually compile with debug flag and see whether the output gives any additional information? |
Thanks for the quick reply! That's what I got:
A font issue? |
Indeed sounds like a font issue. According to the manpage of The font is defined in config.h. Can you check with
If it is not available, please try a different font. |
Helpful indeed. Thank you very much. I don't know what happened to the other font, though still this is resolved. Panicked a bit there as I really have gotten used to using easyfocus 😄 |
Great that it works again :) |
How can I install the proper font on Arch? What font package would this be in? |
That is a good question. It seemed like a good default at that time because it was available on all machines I tested. Maybe we need a different one? Otherwise, you can still configure a different font in |
I'm not familiar with programming applications for xorg but it seems to me that there should be a way to dynamically determine an available system font. If it were me I wouldn't consider this issue closed until you have a solution that works out of the box more robustly. However recompiling with a different font in config.h is not a big deal for me. Thank you |
@AdamSLevy There you go :) |
Brilliant! Thank you so much! |
You can now set the font via argument, for example:
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Upon updating the system including xorgproto 2018.1-1 which replaces [bigreqsproto, compositeproto, damageproto, dmxproto, dri2proto, dri3proto, fixesproto, fontsproto, glproto, inputproto, kbproto, presentproto, printproto, randrproto, recordproto, renderproto, resourceproto, scrnsaverproto, videoproto, xcmiscproto, xextproto, xf86dgaproto, xf86driproto, xf86miscproto, xf86vidmodeproto, xineramaproto, xproto], easyfocus no longer functions.
The package detail can be found here: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/xorgproto/
The error received is:
Any ideas on how to resolve this?
Thanks
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