Re: xfonts-konsole issues
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On Monday 28 Apr 2003 3:07 pm, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> while trying to figure out why the heck I sometimes have a problem with
> konsole on some machines and not on other machines I found out the
> following issue: xfonts-* packages have a call for
>
> update-fonts-dir update-fonts-alias
>
> in their postinst/postrm
Since QT uses fontconfig for locating fonts should not fc-cache be called?
>
> so those probably need to be added to the xfonts-konsole package too in
> their respective postinst/postrm. Further, xfonts-konsole packages:
>
>
> /usr/share/fonts/9x15.pcf.gz
> /usr/share/fonts/console8x16.pcf.gz
> /usr/share/fonts/console8x8.pcf.gz
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/console8x8.pcf.gz
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/console8x16.pcf.gz
>
> which means that 9x15.pcf.gz is missing in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/.
>
> Also the question is why they get installed in /usr/share/fonts instead of
> /usr/share/fonts/misc.
When I was trying to find out why konsole never used these fonts, I discovered
that fontconfig matched a japanese font in preference to these anyway. This
was to do with them both having the "family name" of "fixed" (the other font
is in xfonts-base which has to be installed with an xserver). I suspect
there is a random choice based upon which order directories are searched.
I ended up adding some lines into the /etc/fonts/local.conf to specify that I
wanted the console to be the default fixed font.
[This is only related to the font that konsole picks in the "normal" case. In
fact there is a potential konsole bug here in that it should ask for
"monospace" font rather than "fixed" so I am not proposing that you do
anything with the /etc/fonts/* files.]
- --
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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