Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia

Can you explain how this is related to /opt/X11/share/system_fonts?

#217 (dupe) has some sample code to try and reproduce this.

I think I see one possible issue. We don't wait for font caching to complete before starting up the server. In both places that we cache fonts (system and user),...

@nello What is the invocation you are using? What is the output of `xlsfonts`?

@nello Can you give me your exact invocations?

By invocations, I want to know how you are invoking `xfontselect`. What is the exact command line you are using?

Please confirm if I'm wrong, but it looks like this is an old issue and not a recent regression. I'm seeing this occur with XQuartz 2.7.11 running on macOS 10.13.

I'm able to repdouce it on an Ubuntu machine as well with [Monaco.ttf](https://github.com/XQuartz/XQuartz/files/9024564/Monaco.ttf.gz), so it's not something unique to XQuartz. Unfortunately, I'm having some troubles getting xscope working on darwin...

I also started a thread on xorg-devel to see if anyone there had some thoughts: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2022-July/058848.html

Yeah. it just runs through and rebuilds everyhing. I usually hack in an 'if false ; then ... fi' if I need to skip things. It oculd certainly be better....