dwm-6.3

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drw.c b/drw.c
index f8bc814..4cdbcbe 100644
--- a/drw.c
+++ b/drw.c
@@ -133,6 +133,19 @@ xfont_create(Drw *drw, const char *fontname, FcPattern *fontpattern)
 		die("no font specified.");
 	}
 
+	/* Do not allow using color fonts. This is a workaround for a BadLength
+	 * error from Xft with color glyphs. Modelled on the Xterm workaround. See
+	 * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1498269
+	 * https://lists.suckless.org/dev/1701/30932.html
+	 * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=916349
+	 * and lots more all over the internet.
+	 */
+	FcBool iscol;
+	if(FcPatternGetBool(xfont->pattern, FC_COLOR, 0, &iscol) == FcResultMatch && iscol) {
+		XftFontClose(drw->dpy, xfont);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
 	font = ecalloc(1, sizeof(Fnt));
 	font->xfont = xfont;
 	font->pattern = pattern;
@@ -195,7 +208,7 @@ drw_clr_create(Drw *drw, Clr *dest, const char *clrname)
 /* Wrapper to create color schemes. The caller has to call free(3) on the
  * returned color scheme when done using it. */
 Clr *
-drw_scm_create(Drw *drw, char *clrnames[], size_t clrcount)
+drw_scm_create(Drw *drw, const char *clrnames[], size_t clrcount)
 {
 	size_t i;
 	Clr *ret;