The vital clue came from googling with keywords 'luxi mono kde': http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde&m=110617132115635&w=2
This says that the Postscript (Type1) versions of the Luxi fonts are the culprits. And indeed, I had such versions in /usr/share/fonts/type1/t1-xfree86-nonfree. Turns out they are from a package t1-xfree86-nonfree which I had installed ages ago. I then did dpkg --purge t1-xfree86-nonfree. This is not enough to show Luxi mono in the KDE menu. For this, Luxi Mono Bold and Luxi Mono Bold Oblique have to be cleaned up, because they each have one character of width 682 and four characters of width 1338 (instead of 1229). One way to do this is to use fontforge on the .ttf's, save as .sfd, edit the .sfd, and generate new ttf's. Now Luxi Mono will be in the KDE font menu. As Christian said, you have to restart KDE for it to work. Re-installing t1-xfree86-nonfree makes the problem return. Please try this. I did a few other things with the fonts (removed some characters with names like 'glyph<number>', and which seem to have no content, at the end) but I do not know if this was necessary. So now the problem is why t1-xfree86-nonfree causes this. The above link says that the basic cause is a bug in fontconfig. But I have no idea what fontconfig actually does. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
