WTF?
$ ls -l /usr/share/doc/libqt3c102-mt/ total 28 -rw-r--r--1 root root14989 Oct 5 11:24 changelog.Debian.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 1752 Aug 20 14:59 changelog.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 5713 Oct 4 19:10 copyright -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Feb 14 2003 qtrc_it_was_me what is the last item doing there? -- Robert J. Budzynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bobo.fuw.edu.pl/~rjb/
fonts in Konsole
Hello, currently using the kde debs from sid. I have the problem that my favorite fixed bitmap fonts are no longer available to Konsole (I happen to prefer the fonts from xfonts-jmk). It used to be possible to have them, up to a couple of upgrades back, by launching konsole with the --noxft option, but this no longer works. Is there a workaround? (currently not subscribed to the list, but I follow it via the web archive) -- Robert J. Budzyski Computer Center, Dept. of Physics, Warsaw University, Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bobo.fuw.edu.pl/~rjb/
Sid KDE 3.1, two problems
Hello, after a recent upgrade Konqueror started to segfault reproducibly, upon loading just about any webpage. Here's (what seems to me) a relevant part of the crash dump (it's always quite similar): #5 0x412664b0 in TT_RunIns () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 #6 0x4126277b in gray_raster_render () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 #7 0x41262989 in gray_raster_render () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 #8 0x412348be in FT_Set_Char_Size () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 #9 0x41221608 in _XftSetFace () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 #10 0x412218d1 in XftLockFace () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 #11 0x41223b81 in XftCharIndex () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 #12 0x41220abc in XftTextExtents16 () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 #13 0x408cf7b3 in QFontMetrics::lineWidth() const () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 Needless to say, Konq is for the moment entirely unusable on my system. The other, minor issue: artsd (system sounds) are working erratically. And no, it's not an issue of excessive load or such. It's rather strange: some of the sounds were played only a couple of times, and never again after that. They are no longer played upon the associated events, nor on pressing the `preview' button in the control center. Other sounds continue to work -- as far as I can see it's pretty random which ones work and which don't. I have observed this sound issue on two different Sid boxes, both of which had artsd and kde system sounds working just fine, up to kde3.0 included, until the 3.0-3.1 upgrade. -- Robert J. Budzynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bobo.fuw.edu.pl/~rjb/
Re: DUH, was: KDE 3.1, sid - TT fonts screwup
Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was a bug in libfreetype which caused it to screw up reading .gz files. Its fixed in the cvs, not sure if its been fixed in debian. fc-cache uses libfreetype to get the characteristics out of each font. I think one of the problems was that it misread the header and sometimes expected a zero terminated string which wasn't necessarily there. Hmm, maybe. With the latest version of fontconfig in sid, I think memory usage of fc-cache maxed at about 250 MB rather than the previous 500 MB. Still pretty bad, but not quite as disastrous to my system. -- Robert J. Budzyski Computer Center, Dept. of Physics, Warsaw University, Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bobo.fuw.edu.pl/~rjb/
DUH, was: KDE 3.1, sid - TT fonts screwup
Well, DUH. The short story is, I got my TT fonts back. I'll put down the longer story for the record, though, because it's a little weird. OK, so I am using the truetype fonts located on my windows partition, making them available to X by having a directory (that is included in the fontpath in XF86Config-4) populated with symlinks to all of /C/windows/*.ttf. The windows partition is of course mounted on /C, until now the mount options were such that everything under that path was unaccessible to ordinary user accounts (the mode of /C was 700). This didn't matter, since the X server runs as root and could use those fonts just fine. Now, it seems that with the last upgrade, something changed in such a way that kde could no longer make use of those fonts. The fix turned out to be changing the mount options for /C, to ensure the font files are readable to my user account. Simple enough -- but why did the old setup work OK until recently, and why did it stop working? Note that I have been using TT fonts with KDE, including antialiasing, since KDE 2, through the 3.0 packages that were once available from kde.org, and now with sid's kde3.1 as soon as it hit the ftp sites. Oh, and btw there's something seriously wrong with fontconfig. Running fc-cache takes several hundred MB of memory, and getting fontconfig to reconfigure successfully required me to shutdown X and setup a temporary swap file, otherwise fc-cache died with an out of memory condition (taking out random processes in the act). This is simply unacceptable: on another box, I saw fc-cache use half a GB at peak, there should at least be a warning about this somewhere. You can't just assume that every debian box has well over half a GB of virtual memory available. -- Robert J. Budzynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bobo.fuw.edu.pl/~rjb/
KDE 3.1, sid - TT fonts screwup
Hello, last night's upgrade on my sid box seems to have destroyed kde's support for truetype fonts somehow. Currently, for any truetype font I have installed, the infamous little squares are displayed instead of any glyphs. Does anyone have a clue WTF is going on? BTW, mozilla on the same box works w/o any anomalies. Of the packages that were upgraded, those that might be relevant were (iirc) libqt3c102, xserver-xfree86, xserver-common, and (maybe) xlibs. I can't find any related-seeming error messages in ~/.xsession-errors... I want my TTfonts back! -- Robert J. Budzynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bobo.fuw.edu.pl/~rjb/
