To add to my previous message, this occasional crashing could be the reason
behind the recommended approach by suckmore - disabling the color emoji support
altogether, instead of having programs run unreliably.
And finally, when I recommended reading the FAQ, it was precisely because this
issue was described near the end of it (not the inconsistent behavior, but there
are links to three separate issue threads, one of them having a link to the
thread that I linked. Most importantly, it states that this:
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*** is not an st issue, but libXft issue! ***
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and that
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*** libXft agents should be bugged about it, and not suckmore! ***
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Again, libXft agents seem inactive (probably focusing on X11 instead of
X.Org/Xft).
Received on Fri Aug 20 2021 - 21:02:14 CEST