Re: unicode fonts, and firefox hogging focus

On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 13:42:16 +0000
nia <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> hey, as some of you might have noticed i've been doing some
> work to integrate CTWM into NetBSD as the default window manager
> over the past few weeks
> 

I think that's super cool!

> the version shipped with netbsd is 3.8.2
> 
> i've been trying the latest release but ran into a problem
> with Firefox.

I've not encountered this particular problem, but I have experienced other strange goings on with Firefox in older CTWM versions (E.G. 3.8.2). All of them were remedied when I switched to 4.0.3.

> another problem i have is with enabling unicode fonts. i have
> several fonts like this: 
> -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso10646-1

I can use xos4-terminus in my ctwm which is built from fairly recent source, but should be fine in standard 4.0.3, too.

Full disclosure:
$ ctwm --version
ctwm 4.0.3-post
 (git:9d5cbbb9eb8d4d99772a0fc92dcdb4843d043e60)

I'm not privy to neither package maintenance nor other particularities of NetBSD (I'm on Linux) and my only association with CTWM is as a humble user, so take this for what it is, but my suggestion would be to upgrade the package to 4.0.3.

Best regards

-- 
Carl Svensson