Description of problem: How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -e xorg-x11-fonts-misc 2. yum install xterm 3. start xterm Actual results: Error starting xterm, control-mouse1 stalls xterm for a while, can't change fontsize Expected results: No errors, can change fontsize Additional info: Please add xorg-x11-fonts-misc as a requirement of the xterm rpm.
Can you please try xterm-242-1.fc10 from updates-testing? There were some changes related to fonts. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-1867 I'd prefer to not require any specific font package, because xterm should be usable without any font packages installed and users may want to use different fonts.
I've just tried xterm-242-1 and the startup error message is gone but ctrl-clicking still freezes xterm and I can't change the fontsize. I still have the following error message: Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Using a different font wouldn't be a problem for me but that doesn't seem to work either. I suppose I can only use fonts from the xorg-x11-fonts-misc package...
I've found something, xterm -fa mono seems to switch to a nice font. But ctrl-clicking still stalls xterm for a while (which isn't a real issue for me).
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Now that RPM has "Recommends", we could make use of that here. On a stock Fedora Workstation install, adding xterm and running it results in a functioning xterm but the warning "xterm: cannot load font '-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1'" Adding Recommends "xorg-x11-fonts-misc" would resolve this.
Good idea, thanks.