Re: X11 - WindowMaker characters issues after update

[Yorick Hardy <yorickhardy%gmail.com@localhost>]

Dear Riccardo,

On 2019-11-03, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I upgraded NetBSD current and then upgraded all pkgsrc packages with
> pkg_rolling-replace.
> After two attempts of prr, everything upgraded except rust (which continutes
> to hang/fail).
> 
> X11 works, but I use WindowMaker and it is unusable now (and WPrefs
> neither). All displayed characters are replaced with rectangles with small
> numbers (like when special characters cannot be displayed): everything,
> menus, window titles, etc. Unreadable.
> 
> Interestingly, other X11 apps work: both xterm, xedit work. Also SeaMonkey
> and gVim.
> 
> Below I paste ld of wmaker:
> 
> /usr/pkg/bin/wmaker:
>         -lWINGs.3 => /usr/pkg/lib/libWINGs.so.3
>         -lWUtil.5 => /usr/pkg/lib/libWUtil.so.5
>         -lkvm.6 => /usr/lib/libkvm.so.6
>         -lc.12 => /usr/lib/libc.so.12
>         -lintl.1 => /usr/lib/libintl.so.1
>         -lwraster.6 => /usr/pkg/lib/libwraster.so.6
>         -lXpm.5 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXpm.so.5
>         -lXext.7 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXext.so.7
>         -lX11.7 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libX11.so.7
>         -lxcb.2 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libxcb.so.2
>         -lXau.7 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXau.so.7
>         -lXdmcp.7 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXdmcp.so.7
>         -lpng16.16 => /usr/pkg/lib/libpng16.so.16
>         -lz.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1
>         -lm.0 => /usr/lib/libm.so.0
>         -lgif.7 => /usr/pkg/lib/libgif.so.7
>         -ltiff.5 => /usr/pkg/lib/libtiff.so.5
>         -llzma.2 => /usr/lib/liblzma.so.2
>         -lpthread.1 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1
>         -ljbig.2 => /usr/pkg/lib/libjbig.so.2
>         -ljpeg.9 => /usr/pkg/lib/libjpeg.so.9
>         -lwebp.7 => /usr/pkg/lib/libwebp.so.7
>         -lXmu.7 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXmu.so.7
>         -lXt.7 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXt.so.7
>         -lSM.7 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libSM.so.7
>         -lICE.7 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libICE.so.7
>         -lpangoxft-1.0.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0
>         -lpango-1.0.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
>         -lglib-2.0.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
>         -lpcre.1 => /usr/pkg/lib/libpcre.so.1
>         -lgobject-2.0.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
>         -lffi.6 => /usr/pkg/lib/libffi.so.6
>         -lfribidi.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libfribidi.so.0
>         -lharfbuzz.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0
>         -lfreetype.19 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libfreetype.so.19
>         -lbz2.1 => /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1
>         -lgraphite2.3 => /usr/pkg/lib/libgraphite2.so.3
>         -lstdc++.9 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.9
>         -lgcc_s.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
>         -lpangoft2-1.0.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0
>         -lfontconfig.2 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libfontconfig.so.2
>         -lexpat.2 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.2
>         -lXrender.2 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXrender.so.2
>         -lXft.3 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXft.so.3
>         -lXrandr.3 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXrandr.so.3
>         -lXinerama.2 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXinerama.so.2

This might be more pango fallout:

 https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2019/05/25/pango-future-directions/

 "Using Harfbuzz for font loading means that we will lose support
 for bitmap and type1 fonts. We think this is an acceptable trade-off,
 but others might disagree. Note that Harfbuzz does support loading
 bitmap-only OpenType fonts."

Kind regards,

-- 
Kind regards,

Yorick Hardy