Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Thomas Dickey
dickey@his.com
Tue Aug 3 09:01:00 GMT 2010
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> At some point an annoyance appeared with my xterm windows: The first time I
> use [ctrl]+mouse click in any window, that xterm becomes unresponsive for
> about 5 seconds with the CPU pegged to 100%. After the five seconds is up,
> whatever shell spawned the xterm receives the following message:
>> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
>
> After that all works normally (until I open the next xterm window).
>
> Is there a way to diagnose what the problem is? I don't know what FontSet
> string the error even refers to, let alone which parts of that string were
> invalid. In any case, it really shouldn't take five seconds of hard CPU
> crunching to detect and report an invalid input string.
This topic came up last year, iirc the issue was this:
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#slow_menus
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Thomas E. Dickey
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