I think the applications were set to use TrueType fonts, and for some reason KDE isn't seeing them. When I reset the fonts in the applications I noticed some fonts didn't show (in applications with a preview pane of the text, the preview was blank; in those that had drop down lists showing font names in the style of the font their were blank lines on the list). I think those fonts were the TrueType ones, since I didn't see any of them. I saw Roman (Adobe) but not Time New Roman, for example, and there were no entries under Microsoft-*.
Anybody know what I have to tell KDE3 so it will see the fonts? KDE2, running simultaneously under the same XFree, does have access to them, so I think thinigs are OK at the X level. On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:44:40PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I am running a Debian/testing system with KDE2, and have built KDE 3 > from cvs, installing it to its own directory. This is a vanilla KDE > build, not one making Debian packages. > > I did this a few months ago and KDE3 basically worked. Then one day, it > stopped working. I assumed this was because I had updated some > library underneath via apt-get. KDE2 continues to be fine. > > I just rebuilt KDE3 from source, and am seeing one problem from before: > Konqueror doesn't display fonts at all. That is, where glyphs for > characters should appear on the screen, there is nothing. So the KDE > help is totally blank, except for the graphic at the top of the page. > Other pages show me horizontal lines where text should be. > > Konqueror shows the text OK when it does a directory listing. I see > fonts fine in shells; I even see them in KWord. > > Conceivably the help problem has a different source than the more > general text viewing problem. > > Can anyone suggest where to start looking for the cause of this > problem? A solution would be even nicer! > > Thanks. > >