Re: KDE font woes
Chris Horn wrote:
> I have a very puzzling problem. I've been fiddling with fonts and KDE all
> night, but been unable to make them work when I'm using KDE, logged in as
> my user.
>
> When I log in as root and run kcontrol, everything is pretty. Fonts work
> and
> life seems good. When I run kcontrol, or kmail, as my user, though, only
> a very small set of [crappy] fonts appear in any of the KDE font choosing
> menus.
>
> I'm running an unstable updated tonight. I have tried using X's (4.2.1)
> native font handling, or whatever it's called - specifying font paths
> through
> the XF86Config-4 file. That mostly worked, but the fonts looked like crap
> -
> quite jagged. So, I put on xfs-xtt, told X to use that, and now my fonts
> look great in all applications that aren't KDE-based.
>
> What's the deal here? Why do fonts look fine when I'm root, but not a
> user? I don't use the KDE desktop (or any desktop environment, for that
> matter) and
> have no desire to. Will KDE just not play nicely with non-KDE font
> systems?
I have absolutely no problems with KDE fonts, but I'm running the default
Libranet configuration, which grabs only from stable and testing, never
unstable.
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