From 29a65ca6d6ced934c82c03d9b210e55fbb678283 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aleksa Vučković <aleksav013@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 13:32:12 +0200
Subject: Changes

---
 drw.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

(limited to 'drw.c')

diff --git a/drw.c b/drw.c
index a58a2b4..87b98dc 100644
--- a/drw.c
+++ b/drw.c
@@ -133,6 +133,21 @@ 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;
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