On Saturday 06 July 2002 11:08 am, Daniel D Jones wrote: > Is there any way other that Control Center for selecting KDE fonts? > > I have XF86 using TT fonts. KDE seems to automatically default to using > the first font as the default. In my case, this is a symbolic font. > Opening KDE gives a destop where everything is displayed as gibberish. > I'm able to open CC, and change the fonts (which isn't easy when you > can't read any of the menus.) However, even after doing so, not > everything is fixed. On my laptop, the text under desktop icons look > like a series of squared-off, underlined 'U's. The Lt. Skat card game > still uses a non-readable font. And Konsole is entirely hosed. > Regardless of which font I select, spacing between words and letters is > way off, clearing the screen leaves garbage all over it, etc. > > Are these known problems? Are there any known fixes? > > Thanks in advance for any assistance.
I've seen this problem, and found that the KDE3 packages fixed a lot of those problems. As far as getting Konsole working, you need to pick a fixed-width font, such as Andale Mono or Courier New. The variable width fonts get totally screwed up in Konsole. At least that what worked for me... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]