[Bug 817290] Re: Fontforge crashes when control is pressed

[Adam Smith]

I had the same issue in Ubuntu 11.10. FontForge version 20110225 works; the older version 20100429 in the Ubuntu repository doesn’t. Aleksandr's workaround worked for me.
1. Remove old FontForge.
2. Make sure that git and pythod-dev are installed.
3. Open a terminal window:

$ git clone git://fontforge.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/fontforge/fontforge
$ cd fontforge
$ ./configure
$ sudo make install

The executable was at ~/fontforge/fontforge/fontforge

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Title:
  Fontforge crashes when control is pressed

Status in “fontforge” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  When editing a glyph ("à") FontForge crashes when I press the control
  key (can crash right after start or after the key is pressed a couple
  times for verious commands. Terminal reports a "Segmentation fault"
  with no further details. Happened under Unity and again under classic
  Gnome with no compositing. Happens consistently with a file edited
  with the previous Ubuntu version.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: fontforge 0.0.20100501-5ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Jul 27 22:17:59 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: fontforge
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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