On February 19, 2005 06:10 am, tom wrote: > is this normal? it seems that I had to recompile freetype and fontconfig > for kde to work.
It's been a known occurance for a while. I'm not sure if this got fixed in the book yet. Basically what happens, if I understand correctly and somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, you install fontconfig before Xorg (or XFree86). So the X fonts are not available yet to fontconfig. When a fontconfig app like QT and KDE apps try to use fonts things don't quite work out. I believe that was the problem. The following will fix it too without reinstalling fontconfig. It's a matter of configuring fontconfig after the X installation: Add to /etc/fonts/local.conf: <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF</dir> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1</dir> and run /usr/bin/fc-cache to update fontconfig's cache. KDE should work properly now. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
