Re: Most fonts unavailable to KDE in KDE 2.1 final

["Ivan E. Moore II" <rkrusty@tdyc.com>]

> I've just upgraded to KDE 2.1 final. I am running woody. System is AMD 
> Athlon, Xfree 4, Nvdida TNT2 graphics card.
> 
> The problem I am experiencing that only a handful of fonts are 
> available to KDE and KDE apps. I have checked that the fonts are 
> available to non KDE apps using xlsfonts and xfontsel. There used to be 
> an app in KDE called kfontcontrol or somthing like that which 
> controlled what fonts were made available but I think thats unecessary 
> with KDE 2?
> 
> I have made a screenshot which illustrates the problem. Note that the 
> number of fonts available to xfontsel is some 10 times greater than 
> that to the KDE font picker. (114 kb PNG)
> 
> http://www.myinternet.com.au/home/ian/screendump.png

your not the only person reporting issues with fonts...tho the other report
was xfs based fonts...

try "xset fp rehash"

I personally seem to have all the fonts showing up in kde that X has...

Ivan

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