Re: Konsole & AA fonts

[<tnvander@chello.nl>]

> > > I noticed that AA fonts have been disabled in the latest
>  uploads of
> > > KDE2.1, for reason that Konsole has problems with them.
> >
> > I did that because upstream stated that it did not handle AA 
> properly.  But
> > since either way it's not handled properly I'll take that patch 
> out and
> > re-enable it.
> 
> Fwiw, I have a fair selection of fixed-width fonts, both type1 
> and truetype, 
> all of which antialiased KDE can see, but konsole refuses to use 
> any of them. 
>  When you recently disabled AA in konsole was the first time this 
> week that 
> konsole has been usable for me (without having to first run an 
> xterm and set 
> QT_XFT=0).
> 
> Ben.

Well it was totally unuseable for me until I tweaked the XftConfig file. I also installed an extra font, monotype.ttf. I'm not sure if my XftConfig will make things work now without that font; since I don't have an AA-enabled konsole anymore I can't experiment with it :-) 

The problem is not specifically with konsole though, the Font settings panel in the kontrol center has the same problem with it's fixed-width font as konsole.
So I think it's something in the way in which KDE or QT ask for their fixed width fonts that make them not see all those Couriers and others.

Anyways, this is my XftConfig file, cobbled together from bits, not that I really understand what it exactly means :-) I'm curious if any of those settings will cure the problems with konsole without having the monotype.ttf font present. But to try it, I'd have to interrupt this e-mail and log out <grin>

Remove fontdirs that don't apply to your setup. Much luck with it!

--Tim

#$XFree86$

dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont"
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont"
dir "/opt/Office51/fonts/type1/"
dir "/usr/share/abisuite/fonts/"
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/tt_win"

#alias 'fixed' for 'mono'

match any family == "fixed"		edit family =+ "mono";

#Some own experiments with aliasing font families...
match any family == "mono"		edit family =+ "fixed";
match any family == "Courier New"	edit family =+ "fixed";
match any family == "Courier New"	edit family =+ "mono";

match any family == "fixed"		edit family =+ "Courier New";
match any family == "mono"		edit family =+ "Courier New";
match any family == "fixed"		edit family =+ "LuciduxMono";

# Copied from XftConfig found on Keith Packard's website:
#
# Substitute TrueType fonts for Type1 versions
#
match any family == "Times"		edit family += "Times New Roman";
match any family == "Helvetica"		edit family += "Verdana";
match any family == "Courier"		edit family += "Courier New";

#
# Use TrueType fonts for defaults
#
match any family == "serif" 		edit family += "Times New Roman";
match any family == "sans" 		edit family += "Verdana";

#
# Use monotype.com (andale) face where possible
#
match
	any family == "mono"
	all slant == roman
	all weight < bold
edit
	family += "monotype.com";
#
# otherwise, use courier
#
match any family == "mono"		edit family += "Courier New";

# End of copied stuff

#Check users config file

includeif	"~/.xftconfig"


#Use Lucidux fonts for default faces

match any family == "serif"		edit family += "LuciduxSerif";
match any family == "sans"		edit family += "LuciduxSans";
match any family == "mono"		edit family += "LuciduxMono";


#Alias between XLFD families and font file family name, prefer local
#fonts

match any family == "charter"		edit family += "bitstream charter";
match any family == "bitstream charter" edit family =+ "charter";

match any family == "Lucidux Serif"	edit family += "LuciduxSerif";
match any family == "LuciduxSerif"	edit family =+ "Lucidux Serif";

match any family == "Lucidux Sans"	edit family += "LuciduxSans";
match any family == "LuciduxSans"	edit family =+ "Lucidux Sans";

match any family == "Lucidux Mono"	edit family += "LuciduxMono";
match any family == "LuciduxMono"	edit family =+ "Lucidux Mono";