[expert] LM 8.0 - KDE, fonts anti-aliasing
Hello, I had a lot of problem recently after importing windows font without doing a strong verification... ok, a stupid mistake here :) Basically I couldn't launch KDE as a normal user with anti-aliasing turned on (was still ok for root with anti-aliasing though). To sort of cure the pbm I went to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ and deleted all the fonts then I re-imported all the windows fonts using the strong verification option. I can now launch KDE as a normal user with anti-aliasing but during the KDE startup kwrited crashes all the time. Any idea why it crashes? Also how can I check which windows fonts were causing trouble? Cheers, Fred
Re: [expert] LM 8.0 - KDE, fonts anti-aliasing
Use DrakFont to uninstall any font you add. In mandrake 8, DrakFont has a problem with windows fonts. You must use MandrakeUpdate to update it. Then reimport windows fonts with strong verification. Maybe it helps. Salu2, Oscar. Frederic Soulier wrote: Hello, I had a lot of problem recently after importing windows font without doing a strong verification... ok, a stupid mistake here :) Basically I couldn't launch KDE as a normal user with anti-aliasing turned on (was still ok for root with anti-aliasing though). To sort of cure the pbm I went to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ and deleted all the fonts then I re-imported all the windows fonts using the strong verification option. I can now launch KDE as a normal user with anti-aliasing but during the KDE startup kwrited crashes all the time. Any idea why it crashes? Also how can I check which windows fonts were causing trouble? Cheers, Fred
Re: [expert] LM 8.0 - KDE, fonts anti-aliasing
This is how I do it...force of habit: Open a konsole or xterm, go to superuser, run drakfont. From that point, it is pretty self-explanatory with the nice GUI. You will select the fonts you want, if not all of them. You can go with normal or strong verification - the strong verification is safer/better but I have done normal too. It will install the fonts and they will henceforth be available to you. On Wednesday 13 June 2001 08:54, you wrote: How did you guys import windows fonts. Can you tell me the procedure? --- Oscar Santacreu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use DrakFont to uninstall any font you add. In mandrake 8, DrakFont has a problem with windows fonts. You must use MandrakeUpdate to update it. Then reimport windows fonts with strong verification. Maybe it helps. Salu2, Oscar. Frederic Soulier wrote: Hello, I had a lot of problem recently after importing windows font without doing a strong verification... ok, a stupid mistake here :) Basically I couldn't launch KDE as a normal user with anti-aliasing turned on (was still ok for root with anti-aliasing though). To sort of cure the pbm I went to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ and deleted all the fonts then I re-imported all the windows fonts using the strong verification option. I can now launch KDE as a normal user with anti-aliasing but during the KDE startup kwrited crashes all the time. Any idea why it crashes? Also how can I check which windows fonts were causing trouble? Cheers, Fred = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] LM 8.0 - KDE, Fonts Anti-aliasing pbm
On Saturday 09 June 2001 11:02, you wrote: Hi, A very odd thing happened yesterday. (2) For the time being I am running all my users with the anti-aliasing flag set to false, but if I go to the KDE Control Center/LooknFeel/ Fonts where I have: fixed widthLucida Console 8 iso8859-1 and I try to change the fixed width fond by clicking on choose then I can kiss my KDE session goodbye, it seems like xfs gets killed by doing that... because once back to the console, ps -ax | grep xfs does not show any xfs running and I have to do: service xfs start then going back to KDE works. IMHO that xfs reely sucks, xfs dies very often when i open the font chooser. (3) Can the imported fonts from Windows cause that? I had a similar problem when i upgraded from kde 2.1.1 to kde2.2alpha2, i solved it by removing all the imported windows fonts, then i imported only the tahoma and the verdana fonts from win2k (tahoma is a really nice font). Kde now works fine. -- Francisco Castanheiro EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: go.to/cdtracker The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
[expert] LM 8.0 - KDE, Fonts Anti-aliasing pbm
Hi, A very odd thing happened yesterday. I had a perfectly working KDE desktop (with anti-aliasing and fonts imported from windows) for both root and users. I then decided to update some packages (using cooker) to get xcdroast working as mentionned at: http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php?sid=941lang=enmode=threadorder=0thold=0 I went to a cooker web site and downloaded: mandrake_desk-8.0-10mdk mkisofs-1.13-7mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-1.10-1mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-cdda2wav-1.10-1mdk.i586.rpm and installed them manually doing: rpm -Uvh [package file name] I could not find: xcdroast-0.98-8mdk.i586.rpm and decided to do it later. Then I cannot remember exactly why but I logged out of KDE and logged back in again and the disaster struck... KDesktop, khotkeys, kicker, kwrited, klipper, kwin crashed (signal 11) I tried several times but no luck. I tried to launch KDE as root and no problem. After investigation, I found out that if I set the anti-aliasing flag to false in /home/myuser/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals then I can launch KDE again as myuser (note: the flag is still on for root and it works fine... go figure). I then created a new user and as soon as the anti-aliasing flag was turned on I could not launch KDE anymore... (1) What can trigger such nasty behaviour? Could that be the upgrade to mandrake_desk-8.0-10mdk from cooker? (2) For the time being I am running all my users with the anti-aliasing flag set to false, but if I go to the KDE Control Center/LooknFeel/ Fonts where I have: fixed widthLucida Console 8 iso8859-1 and I try to change the fixed width fond by clicking on choose then I can kiss my KDE session goodbye, it seems like xfs gets killed by doing that... because once back to the console, ps -ax | grep xfs does not show any xfs running and I have to do: service xfs start then going back to KDE works. (3) Can the imported fonts from Windows cause that? note: launching other WMs like Gnome, Enlightenment, etc.. works fine. Cheers, Fred
