KDE2 making life difficult
In recent messages I've been writing in reply to other threads on
Debian-User I have been repeatedly referring to the trouble I am having
with the KDE app "Konsole". WRT that, the trouble is font trouble
(seemingly, from the number of times it is showing up on Debian-User, a
current Debian 'hot-spot' set of issues). The trouble is that Konsole's
configuration menu calls a font selector that won't show the "fixed"
font (screen bitmapped font that is optimal for use in Xterms like
Konsole). The font selector shows only TT and Type1 fonts (scalable
types), won't show 'fixed".
Other applications can see and use 'fixed' (i.e.: GVIM) and it's
therefore a problem specific to Konsole and maybe to other KDE apps.
I am running Debian "Woody" and KDE 2.2.2. I *really* cannot express how
much I *don't* want to subscribe to a KDE List just to get this fixed,
so I am hoping that somebody here will finally register my cries of
distress and give me the right answer ;-).
So, my vague understanding is that a basis of KDE (and GNOME too for
that matter) is conceptually the notion of "caching" data so that it is
persistant from one session to the next. Maybe, I am thinking, this
"caching" is in some way responsible for my trouble with Konsole fonts.
So, can anybody shed light on how I can "purge" or "refresh" or
otherwise blow away some stupid notion that KDE's font selector has got,
about which fonts are available from X for use in Konsole?
TIA.
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