Re: upgrading trashed my font display
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:01 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:22:48 -0800, Casey T. Deccio wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 17:37 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 01:04:13 +0000, Adam Hardy wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Yes it looks like this but I am only just now affected by it and the bug
> > > > report
> > > > says it has been fixed in kdebase/4:3.5.4-1, 4:3.5.0-1, and yet I'm running
> > > >
> > > > kdebase 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-1
> > > >
> > > > I tried the $HOME/.qt/qtrc solution, but my settings are already set to
> > > > what the fix is (enableXft=true, useXft=true)
> > > >
> > > > I also tried switching the anti-aliasing off and back on in KDE Control
> > > > Centre, but the fonts are so damaged, I could only find the "use
> > > > anti-aliased fonts" to change, but not the "hinting style full".
> > >
> > > You can also go back to a terminal (e.g. CTRL + ALT + F1) and edit your
> > > ~/.fonts.conf directly. Here is what mine looks like:
> > >
> >
> > FYI, I'm experiencing the same symptoms, and neither of these solutions
> > (~/.qt/qtrc and ~/.fonts.conf) have seemed to fix things. FWIW, my font
> > problems exist not only in KDE, but also in GDM, and in some apps within
> > Gnome (namely, Evolution) too.
>
> Did you also check the "xrdb -query" output?
>
$ xrdb -query | grep Xft
Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.hinting: 1
Xft.hintstyle: hintfull
Xft.rgba: none
> You could also try different settings when you run
>
> dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config
>
> (The problem might be in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf or /etc/fonts/conf.d/*)
>
It changes the font, but doesn't seem to do anything for my missing
text.
Regards,
Casey
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