Re: keyboard layout and xfs-xtt/KDE font problem (partially solved)
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 14:27, Kurt, Caspar wrote: > ~/.kde/share/config/kxkbrc. though Layout was set to 'us' it did not work > right. setting it to en_US did work so i guess something (probably me by > killing X with ctrl-alt-bs in despair) messed up xlibs. i reinstalled xlibs That should be impossible. Frank -- ## Dept. of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, Germany ## ## http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~fm3 ## pgpbuw2s6MgfK.pgp Description: signature
Re: keyboard layout and xfs-xtt/KDE font problem (partially solved)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 24 June 2003 10:40, Lucas Moulin wrote: > > i tried renaming ~/.kde to ~/.kde.renamed before loging into kde which > > fixed the problem but obviously made kde forget about my beloved > > configuration. what's the point? where in ~/.kde/ do i have to change > > things to get my us layout back? > > Actually I'm using the default layout so I guess I don't have any > special config in my KDE config files, but I think you should try to use > grep to parse the files in ~/.kde/share/config with keywords like > 'mapping', 'layout' or 'key'. That should give you some results. If not, > you'll lose 15 mn to reconfigure your KDE environment, it's no big deal > if you keep the important files apart (like Kmail config for example). fist of all thank you very much. i found out that the layout configuration was in ~/.kde/share/config/kxkbrc. though Layout was set to 'us' it did not work right. setting it to en_US did work so i guess something (probably me by killing X with ctrl-alt-bs in despair) messed up xlibs. i reinstalled xlibs and now Layout=us works as before which is great. what a relief! > Why do you want to use xfs-tt ? Since XFree86 v4.x, it's really not > necessary. Plus, you got fontconfig and KDE, which deal well with any > type of font. Try setting font paths in your workstation's XF86Config > instead of using the server. I can send you my file if you like > (everything works, TT fonts, regular ones, Euro character, japanese > fonts, etc.). I can even tell you what font packages I've installed, but > I guess you already double-checked this. at the office we want to switch our machines from evil M$-Win2k to sweet Debian gnu/linux and kde and one of the problems we have with win2k are the fonts. often we have to (re)install and/or adjust fonts and things really get messy when we edit documents on different machines because no machine has the same font set. so i though having a font server making one font set available for all machines would be nice and troublefree. meanwhile i guess it's easier to install those font packages on every machine. (i think i gotta get rid of my perfectionism someday but until then) can you (or anyone else) point me to a howto about truetype/antialiasing fonts with xfree86? i really want to know how this works. with kind regards, caspar kurt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE++ZUrVBsp47JyuaMRAt8FAJwKv2VLQXgkziiW5pMJAZ+EZCpepgCeJC8g zuIu1ulQ1s8qwINRgj+gYfg= =GoZG -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: keyboard layout and xfs-xtt/KDE font problem
On lun, jun 23 15:02 "Kurt, Caspar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : [...] > i tried renaming ~/.kde to ~/.kde.renamed before loging into kde which fixed > the problem but obviously made kde forget about my beloved configuration. > what's the point? where in ~/.kde/ do i have to change things to get my us > layout back? Actually I'm using the default layout so I guess I don't have any special config in my KDE config files, but I think you should try to use grep to parse the files in ~/.kde/share/config with keywords like 'mapping', 'layout' or 'key'. That should give you some results. If not, you'll lose 15 mn to reconfigure your KDE environment, it's no big deal if you keep the important files apart (like Kmail config for example). > on the second problem i've been working for 3 weeks now: > i have one linux workstation and one linux server both running debian sid. on > the workstation i have XFree86 and KDE 3.2.1. on the server i run xfs-xtt. > i've removed all FontPath lines in XF86Config-4 leaving only 'FontPath > "tcp/guineapig:7110"' where guineapig is the hostname of the server. i guess > xfs-xtt is working because X won't start if i comment out this FontPath line. > still i have no fixed fonts in KDE and also other fonts don't seem to be > working as they should. i tried all the tricks and hints i could find (i.e. > running fc-cache, reinstalling font packages on the server, comparing config > files from a working installation at home...) but i could not solve my > problem. how can i get fonts working with KDE and xfs-xtt? Why do you want to use xfs-tt ? Since XFree86 v4.x, it's really not necessary. Plus, you got fontconfig and KDE, which deal well with any type of font. Try setting font paths in your workstation's XF86Config instead of using the server. I can send you my file if you like (everything works, TT fonts, regular ones, Euro character, japanese fonts, etc.). I can even tell you what font packages I've installed, but I guess you already double-checked this. > i'm sure (well at least i hope) someone could help me with this, please. this > stuff really drives me nuts. konsole is just not usable without readable > fonts and for each 10 keys i tipe i've got 5 to correct because of this > different keyboard layout. somebody please help me solve these problems. I'd be glad to help you, as I know fonts under X can be a real pain. > i can't even tell if someone can understand all this angry babbling of mine. Don't worry, I think I did :) Regards, -- Lucas Moulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "There's no point in democracy when ignorance is celebrated" NOFX - Idiots Are Taking Over pgpguXS2nABRP.pgp Description: PGP signature
