bug#16128: 24.3.50; SIGSEGV at font.c:2901 : eassert (FRAME_DISPLAY_INFO (font->frame)->n_fonts);

[Jan Djärv]

Hello.

13 dec 2013 kl. 15:15 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:

>> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 17:42:03 +0400
>> From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
>> 
>> Non-GTK X support uses separate frames for tooltips.
> 
> I think GTK is the _only_ build that does _not_ use separate frames
> for tooltips.  (Well, maybe NS does that as well, I simply don't
> know.)

It does.

>  Tooltips started as special-purpose frames, years before the
> GTK build became supported.

While that made sense at the time tooltips was implemented in Emacs, it no 
longer does.  Tooltips should adopt the look and feel of the desktop 
environment, which is why GTK left the tooltip-is-a-frame concept.

        Jan D.