M LICENSE → LICENSE

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ 
 MIT/X Consortium License
 
-© 2006-2017 Anselm R Garbe <anselm@garbe.us>
+© 2006-2019 Anselm R Garbe <anselm@garbe.ca>
 © 2006-2009 Jukka Salmi <jukka at salmi dot ch>
 © 2006-2007 Sander van Dijk <a dot h dot vandijk at gmail dot com>
 © 2007-2011 Peter Hartlich <sgkkr at hartlich dot com>

M config.mk → config.mk

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ 
 # dwm version
-VERSION = 6.1
+VERSION = 6.2
 
 # Customize below to fit your system
 

M drw.c → drw.c

@@ -132,6 +132,19 @@ } else {
 		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;
@@ -200,7 +213,7 @@ size_t i;
 	Clr *ret;
 
 	/* need at least two colors for a scheme */
-	if (!drw || !clrnames || clrcount < 2 || !(ret = ecalloc(clrcount, sizeof(Clr))))
+	if (!drw || !clrnames || clrcount < 2 || !(ret = ecalloc(clrcount, sizeof(XftColor))))
 		return NULL;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < clrcount; i++)
@@ -337,6 +350,7 @@ 
 			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);