Re: font problem kde3.1.1 / X11_4.3

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

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On Friday 28 Mar 2003 11:20 pm, Henning Moll wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I updated my system to kde3.1.1 / X11_4.3 using Ralfs packages. Mostly
> everything works perfect, but one exception: The font, used by 'konsole'
> looks like this:
>
>  V e r y  u g l y

What you are seeing is a problem with fontconfig.  If no specific font is 
specified it uses the general "monospaced" font.  Font config looks up one 
and finds (apparently) a Japanese font that has erroneously indicated that it 
is monspaced and has some very wide glyphs (characters).  Since the spacing 
of a monospaced font is determined by the size of the largest glyph you get 
to see the western characters (that are in the font too).


>
> (it is also bold...)
>
> I found some things about defining font aliases from 'mono' to 'fixed' via
> XftConfig, but then i realized, that this was already there.
>
> I also noticed that the 'font installer' in the Control Center does not
> provide any font for a normal user ('No Fonts'). If i switch to
> administrator mode, a dialog pops up saying: "File does not exist and
> folder is not writeable."
>
> After that, the fonts list is populated with many entries, but preview does
> not work for any of them.

You need to look at /etc/fonts/fonts.conf.  Near the front it should have some 
statements like <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir> which should list your 
font directories (it will also find any subdirectories).  If these are not 
right, change them and then run "fc-cache -f -v".

If you want to get away from the ugly fonts you can also specify a font for 
"fixed" by doing something like the following in /etc/fonts/local.conf


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file for local customizations -->
<fontconfig>


<match>
	<test name="family">
		<string>fixed</string>
	</test>
	<edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
		<string>console</string>
	</edit>
</match>

</fontconfig>


This assigns the font "console" to replace the use of fixed.


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Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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