On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 22:52, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: > parv wrote: > > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Jesse D. Guardiani > > thusly... > > > >> EVERY TIME, the WXP fonts will display fine in MOST KDE > >> applications, but occassionally (like in Konqueror) the horizontal > >> spacing will be all messed up. > >> > >> Basically, every line of text will look like this: > >> > >> T H I S I S A G O O D E X A M P L E > >> > >> Does anyone know what causes that? And how to fix it?!? > > > > Looks like something somewhere is defining "charwidth" (mention in > > fvwm(1) regarding use of TTF in relation to xft). > > I'm not running fvwm or xft. Straight X server (4.3.0) and KDE (3.1.x). > > Surely someone has had this problem before after installing Windows > TrueType fonts! It happens to me EVERY TIME, and it happens whether > the OS is FreeBSD or linux. > > Perhaps I should subscribe to a XFree86 mailling list and ask there. >
This looks like the effect I get if I (wrongly) use a proportional font in an application that is designed to use a fixed width font -- the effect is not restricted to TTF. For example opening an xterm in an helvetica font: beta:203> xterm -fn '-*-helvetica-*-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' Malcolm Kay _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
