Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3378 mails)

["John Blue" <jblue@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> try ALT-F2 
> and type konsole --noxft 
>

Thanks Martijn, that worked OK. I then Saved settings and exited, but 
a restart of Konsole has me back with the squashed letters....

How do I retain the settings?

John 
> Martijn 
> 
> Quoting John Blue <jblue@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: 
> 
> > I'm getting started with SuSE and have struck a small problem. I am 
> > running V.7.3 (Pro distribution) on a dual boot system with NT4. 
> >  
> > When logged in as root the Konsole window opens, confined to a
> > narrow  window on the left of the screen, and the prompt is very
> > difficult to  read with letters squashed together. If I issue a
> > command the  response is also unreadable. Making the window full
> > size does nothing  for the text and adjusting the settings does not
> > appear to work! 
> >  
> > If I login with my normal user login, (John) the Konsole window is 
> > quite OK and text is very readable, and yet the settings appear to
> > be  the same for root as for user. 
> >  
> > I have read the KDE Konsole instructions but I must be missing 
> > something as I can't adjust the settings to resolve this. I daresay
> > a  re-install would resolve it, and I am happy to do so. I think
> > it's a  breeze after windoze installs, although I would rather try
> > and  understand what the problem is. 
> >  
> > Any pointers appreciated. 
> >  
> > John 
> >  
> >  
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