remove workaround for a crash with color emojis on some systems, now fixed in libXft 2.3.5

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxft/-/blob/libXft-2.3.5/NEWS

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/drw.c b/drw.c
index ced7d37..a58a2b4 100644
--- a/drw.c
+++ b/drw.c
@@ -133,19 +133,6 @@ xfont_create(Drw *drw, const char *fontname, FcPattern *fontpattern)
                 die("no font specified.");
         }
 
-        /* Do not allow using color fonts. This is a workaround for a BadLength
-         * error from Xft with color glyphs. Modelled on the Xterm workaround. See
-         * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1498269
-         * https://lists.suckless.org/dev/1701/30932.html
-         * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=916349
-         * and lots more all over the internet.
-         */
-        FcBool iscol;
-        if(FcPatternGetBool(xfont->pattern, FC_COLOR, 0, &iscol) == FcResultMatch && iscol) {
-                XftFontClose(drw->dpy, xfont);
-                return NULL;
-        }
-
         font = ecalloc(1, sizeof(Fnt));
         font->xfont = xfont;
         font->pattern = pattern;
@@ -368,7 +355,6 @@ drw_text(Drw *drw, int x, int y, unsigned int w, unsigned int h, unsigned int lp
                         fcpattern = FcPatternDuplicate(drw->fonts->pattern);
                         FcPatternAddCharSet(fcpattern, FC_CHARSET, fccharset);
                         FcPatternAddBool(fcpattern, FC_SCALABLE, FcTrue);
-                        FcPatternAddBool(fcpattern, FC_COLOR, FcFalse);
 
                         FcConfigSubstitute(NULL, fcpattern, FcMatchPattern);
                         FcDefaultSubstitute(fcpattern);