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Re: Problems with "fixed width" fonts



On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:03 pm, Marc Schoechlin wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I'm using kde-3.0.5/kde-3.2 from unstable and I have big trouble with
> fonts.
>
> The "fixed width"-fonts are looking ugly blurred, and are closly to be
> unreadable.
>
> If I try to change to another "fixed width" font in the kontrolcenter
> I only have one font named "fixed" in my font-selection.
>
> A friend has almost 10 possibilities to select - what could
> be wrong with my setup ?
>
> I'm not sure if this is a XFree or a KDE-problem.

It is a fontconfig problem - fontconfig defaults changed to not using 
bitmapped fonts.  Edit /etc/fonts/local.conf and uncomment the section to 
allow bitmapped fonts.

Josh Metzler



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