On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 00:38:03 +0000, Adam Hardy wrote:
> Florian Kulzer on 28/11/06 16:37, wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 01:04:13 +0000, Adam Hardy wrote:
> >>Florian Kulzer on 27/11/06 16:50, wrote:
> >>>On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 01:46:25 +0000, Adam Hardy wrote:
> >>>>This is the same in KDE, Gnome and Enlightenment. Can someone tell me
> >>>>where to start?
> >>>Does it look like the screenshot in this bugreport?
> >>>
> >>>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=377147
> >>
> >>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 $HOME/.qt/qtrc solution, but my settings are already set to
> >>what the fix is (enableXft=true, useXft=true)
> >>
> >>I also tried switching the anti-aliasing off and back on in KDE Control
> >>Centre, but the fonts are so damaged, I could only find the "use
> >>anti-aliased fonts" to change, but not the "hinting style full".
> >
> >You can also go back to a terminal (e.g. CTRL + ALT + F1) and edit your
> >~/.fonts.conf directly. Here is what mine looks like:
> >[snip]
> >You should shut down X and log out (or log out from [xgk]dm) before you
> >change the file and then log in (and/or start X) again. If the fonts are
> >still mangled then you should check if the Xft settings were committed to
> >the
> >X resource database:
> >
> >$ xrdb -query | grep Xft Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.hintstyle:
> >hintfull Xft.rgba: none
>
> Hi Florian, thanks for the input.
>
> I have no <dir> tag as you do. That .fonts dir doesn't exist on my machine.
> Otherwise the settings are the same as yours.
That seems OK to me.
> When I run xrdb -query, in x it gives no output, just returns to the cmd
> line. Outside x, it says "cant open display ''"
That is unusual, I think. "xrdb -query" returns more than 400 lines of
output when I run it here. (It is only supposed to work from within X.)
You could try
echo "Xft.antialias: 1" | xrdb -merge
echo "Xft.hinting: 1" | xrdb -merge
echo "Xft.hintstyle: hintfull" | xrdb -merge
echo "Xft.rgba: none" | xrdb -merge
and check if the settings are accepted.
(If you meant to say that "xrdb -query | grep Xft" returns no output
then the Xft settings are not there.)
> So this bug is still alive and kicking then? It's so bizarre. KDE is really
> up the creek. I'm getting to know enlightenment though :)
It is difficult to say if this is still the old bug. If I recall
correctly, the old bug went away if fonts.conf, qtrc and the xrdb output
where all OK. So it might be a new issue or something that is specific
to your particular configuration.
--
Regards,
Florian