Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3378 mails)

["John Blue" <jblue@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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

Hi Eddie,

Did that, but can't resolve this on a permanent basis. Will keep 
looking.
John
> 
> 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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