---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [expert] fonts doofy after using drakfont Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 19:30:47 -0600 From: Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Joham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hmpf. OK, I finally got kmail setup the way I wanted/needed, also with the appropriate email addresses in my address book. Where and what file within the .kde directory structure is this configuration stuff stored? I would like to save this before dumping .kde so I don't have to go through the whole process yet again. On Thursday 24 May 2001 16:04, David Joham wrote: > I've seen something similar before with Mandrake 7.2. Try this > > 1) Make a backup copy of your .kde directory > 2) Delete your .kde directory > 3) Restart KDE > > You should then have all of the defaults set correctly and you can set your > choices as you wish. Note that all of your other settings that you have set > for KDE will also be lost. > > This seems like a stupid hack, but it did work. > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Praedor Tempus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 1:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [expert] fonts doofy after using drakfont > > > I just upgraded my laptop system to Mandrake 8.0 from 7.2. All was well > until I used drakfont to install all the windoze fonts. Since doing that, > all my kde fonts are italic. > > I try to alter this from the fonts entry in kcontrol but these entries all > still show the "correct" helvetica font, normal (NOT italic) settings. If > I > > try to reset all this by manually selecting helvetica again I find that I > cannot find helvetica. It has suddenly vanished from my system, so it > seems. > All I have to choose from are windoze fonts. > > How do I get helvetica back? How do I get rid of this damnable italics > (part > of the same problem)? -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. ------------------------------------------------------- -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.