[Xcb] xlibs --with-xcb unbroken

[Jamey Sharp]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:27:00AM +0100, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> I still can't run xclock from the xorg tree with an XCB-enabled
> libX11.  xterm works fine.
> 
> Looks like a problem in getting the font list from the server:
> 
> 
> (gdb) bt
> ...
> #9  0xb7e3d41e in XListFontsWithInfo (dpy=0x8054cc0,
> ...

The ListFontsWithInfo request in the X protocol is quite unusual, in a
way that makes it difficult to implement. As a result, neither XCB nor
the XCB-based Xlib currently support it. We have a plan for fixing that,
and a fix in Xlib is pretty clearly necessary, but so few applications
use that request that it hasn't been a high priority for me. In fact, I
can only think of three applications with this problem.

Try fdclock instead. It's prettier and should work just fine. ;-)

BTW, xterm is usually installed SGID and so ignores LD_LIBRARY_PATH. It
sounds like you may actually be installing your newly-built libX11
rather than using LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but I've often been confused by that,
so I thought I'd point it out. When in doubt, of course, `ldd` is your
friend.

--Jamey