Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3378 mails)

[Eddie Howson <eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John

I don't know but I'm having a guess here.  Have you logged in as root and 
checked your font setting in the control center?

Eddie

On Tuesday 16 April 2002 12:57 pm, John Blue wrote:
> > 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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