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Re: KDE2 making life difficult



On Sunday 25 May 2003 03:29 pm, Soren Andersen wrote:
> 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.
>
are you running with AA fonts? KDE 2.2 has limited fots for AA. I suggest that 
if you want AA fonts that you move to KDE 3. much nicer...and you get access 
to cool new apps like K3B!!! :-)



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