Re: Fonts stuffed after dist-upgrade
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 07:17:02PM +1000, Jeremy Lunn wrote:
> Just did a dist-upgrade on my mum's computer and the KDE fonts have
> totally screwed up. Other X fonts seem okay (GTK and OpenOffice.Org),
> in fact the konsole font is fine as well. But every other font in KDE
> has gone weird. Any ideas about what it could be, which package it
> would be and how to fix it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeremy
>
I wish I knew; I'm having font problems too. But I do have some
ideas.
KDE3, because of its reliance on Qt3, uses a different font naming
convention than KDE2/Qt2. "family [foundry]" is the new style;
"foundry-family" was the old. If you have some files/preferences
using the old style, they may appear to have disappeared when the
styles switch. Or maybe not: I think Qt3 is still supposed to
recognize the old names.
A dist-upgrade may have changed your xserver, even if it is relatively
recent. The configuration scheme changed, and the XF86Config-4 got
rewritten. In my case, some font paths got dropped during the
rewrite.
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