; * etc/DEBUG: Add information about debugging libXft problems.

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Eli Zaretskii 2018-06-08 18:22:50 +03:00
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@ -651,6 +651,14 @@ emacs -nw --eval '(setq x-command-line-resources "emacs.synchronous: true")'
should give more reliable results.
For X protocol errors related to displaying unusual characters or to
font-related customizations, try invoking Emacs like this:
XFT_DEBUG=16 emacs -xrm "emacs.synchronous: true"
This should produce information from the libXft library which could
give useful hints regarding font-related problems in that library.
Some bugs related to the X protocol disappear when Emacs runs in a
synchronous mode. To track down those bugs, we suggest the following
procedure: