On Tuesday 04 March 2003 12:24 pm, Curtis Rey wrote:
Ok, you guys will love this! I start kde. NO FONTS - as before - no surpise. So, i have icons. I can see the little wrench on the taskbar. I open it see the icon "TT" - open it. I recognize the "Adjust All Fonts" button - open.
So, now I go and highlight the little ~1mm big sections for the various fonts - and mind you I can't see the fonts at the moment. press apply - nothing, go to next, apply, nothing, and on and on..... until I press apply and BOOM = Fonts! not I go into the fonts installer and install every frelling font. I'm doing it as I type - hope this doesn't present new problems and works as it should. Frankly, I'm not all that confident.
Cheers, Curtis.
Hi Curtis, I felt hopeful when I read Joe Sullivans tip earlier so I tried again, got rid of all the font.cache files, including the ones in /usr/share/fonts/all my msfont dirs... ran SuSEconfig, it acually finished Tried logging in to kde, no fonts as expected (actially non-kde fonts were working fine) Logging into gnome or fluxbox work nicely as long as I stay away from kde apps. went to the control center found fonts and started looking. Nothing there for at least 16 screen widths! x finally crashed when the kcontrolcenter got wide enough. Tried adjusting some .config files in my ~home dir, no help downgraded (again) to xf86tools0.1-416 4.3 works fine here (except for the lack of 3d on my radeon 7500, as long as I don't upgrade xf86tools beyond 0.1-416 (the previous version). Also the new sax files gave me no confidence (and crappy results) so I downgraded these as well. The only other time I have had so much trouble w/ an upgrade was w/ gnome 1.4 upgrades for suse 7.2. Indignant Griper Mode ON This upgrade of Xfree86 should have NEVER made it to the SuSE ftp servers. It does a terrible disservice to an otherwise excellent distribution, and can do nothing but make SuSE look bad. There is no way I could expect a linux newbie to deal with the problems this upgrade presented. Had m$ released an upgrade as horrendous as this Fred Miller would have been all over it. In fairness to SuSE they do make it clear in the read me that this is an "Unsupported Upgrade" and give appropriate warning. Indignant Griper Mode OFF Hope your upgrade sticks, as for me, I'll keep trying as new suggestions appear, but I've kind of lost hope. See Ya -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!