From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12954 invoked by alias); 3 Aug 2010 09:01:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 12862 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Aug 2010 09:01:03 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from dc-8.his.net (HELO smtp304.his.com) (108.56.65.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:00:58 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by smtp304.his.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30AD1244175 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 05:00:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Score: 1.186 Received: from smtp304.his.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp304.his.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ICOjDFhk87vT for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 05:00:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail101.his.com (dc-7.his.net [108.56.65.7]) by smtp304.his.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D09D424413F for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 05:00:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail101.his.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail101.his.com (8.14.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id o7390LJC066616 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 05:00:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dickey@his.com) Received: from localhost (dickey@localhost) by mail101.his.com (8.14.3/8.13.4/Submit) with ESMTP id o7390LGm066611 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 05:00:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dickey@his.com) Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:01:00 -0000 From: Thomas Dickey To: cygwin-xfree Subject: Re: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion In-Reply-To: <4C57DA24.8090205@ece.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <20100803045917.V3933@mail101.his.com> References: <4C57DA24.8090205@ece.cmu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-08/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 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 -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/