profanity crashes st when I press alt+right too many times.

[jgarte]

profanity xmpp client crashes st terminal when I press alt+right too many times.

How should I debug this?

[apprehensions]

you look at st's stderr.

alt+right

i assume this resizes the st window.
in that case i am unable to reproduce. works for me.

[jgarte]

@wael444 wae how did you install st and profanity?

you look at st's stderr.

how do I do that?

st -o iofile.txt

[apprehensions]

from another terminal you can launch
st 2>&1 > log
after st crashes there would be a file called log.
Paste its contents here.
You can also do
st -o log
I did not know that.

wae how did you install st and profanity

compiling st from source

xbps-install -S profanity

[jgarte]

@wael444

 λ st -o st-log
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:  5951
  Current serial number in output stream:  6050

or

 λ st 2>&1 > log
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:  5771
  Current serial number in output stream:  5848

[apprehensions]

LibXft cannot render emojis. so it crashes
Your only choice is to patch in font2 and use non color emojis (such as Symbola or bdf Unicode font)

Or install libxft with BGRA patch.

LukeSmithxyz/st#130
Is related.

Please close your issue. This is a libXft bug. Nor is it related to void-packages in any way.

[jgarte]

Thanks for clarifying that.

I ended up installing xst which fixed the issue for me.

doas vpm i xst