Re: konsole font
Soren Andersen wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 12:52:41PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote:
>> On Saturday 24 May 2003 01:36, Soren Andersen wrote:
>> > On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 12:17:38AM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote:
>> > > I Installed the KDE 3.1.1 packages from unstable. Now, I have the
>> > > problem that I cannot make konsole use any useable font.
>
>> > Are you running the X font server, xfs?
>
>> No, I don't. And I don't run it on another box either, which is working
>> fine with a self-built KDE (3.1rc6)... I think I could run konsole with
>> Wingdings there...
>
> Well, there goes a hypothesis that it has anything to do with xfs.
>
> I found something via Google'ing that suggested that some piece of KDE
> cannot handle compressed .pcf.gz files, and that to recover proper fonts
> for use in terminals one had to ungzip the .pcf files and re-run
> 'mkfontdir'. I tried that and it didn't make a difference.
>
> As I understand it our bitmapped screen fonts are the ones we want for
> Konsole; and that on modern Linux those fonts are found in the format
> *.pcf (instead of *.bdf or various other formats of the past). And if I
> understood correctly we should be seeing a font named "fixed" in a font
> selector dialogue, but aren't.
>
> Still a mystery.
>
Hi,
I had the same problem. After I uncommented the line
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
in /etc/fonts/local.conf, I had access to "Fixed" for Konsole. I'm not using
a font server, I just have all the directories listed in XF86Config-4, not
sure if that makes a difference.
Gabor
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