On Friday 18 October 2002 16:48, Owen Taylor wrote: > Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yesterday I installed the XFt-2 enabled QT. Now running konsole (the kde > > terminal application) It started out with very wide characters (from > > arial) This is caused by the fact that the font selection mechanism > > refuses to match the -misc-fixed-medium-r-* bitmapped font. I've tried > > out several configurations but none helped (except aliassing to a > > monospaced font, not arial). > > > > I'll attach a log from starting konsole, and my font.conf file. > > Basically Konsole is looking for a font that isn't there so it > falls back to the default. The only thing to do about this is > to patch the hardcoded default fonts. > > The attached is a patch from the Red Hat 8 KDE packages to do > this. (I'm not sure if it's the final version or not -- it's > just what was sitting in my patches directory.) It uses > 'monospace' - the standard fontconfig name for the default > monospace font - instead of 'fixed' > > For your own use, you can also just select a different font > with the font selector in Konsole, of course.
I allready found the problem. The problem is the fact that the fixed font is not found. This is because all my pcf fonts are gzipped by default. For some reason fontconfig doesn't recognize them in this case. I will check whether I can come up with some patch for this. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Junior Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
