On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 23:44, BandiPat wrote:
On Sunday 09 November 2003 11:23 pm, Rohit wrote:
Hi all,
Feeling stupid :-(
I wanted all the good fonts from microsoft windows so started KDE"s font installer and selected all the fonts from win for installation - as root. The installer gave error for two of them [I did not note which two] and the rest seemed to go fine.
But after that I lost my fonts completely. KDE would startup but would report errors with loading fonts [says "NO fonts found"]. Enlightenment etc menus are also invisible. Many windows are unrendered.
After looking at many config files, I have been unable to locate where the problem could be.. Following is my game plan.
1. Remove all the TrueType directories [from my and root's home directories as well as from /usr/X11R6/share/fonts etc etc].
2. Then remove all the packages searchable from yast [containing word font] and reinstalling them after a reboot [paranoid, I know].
But if there is someone with a little more insight than me, would they like to tell more? Best would be someone who has already faced this problem?
-- Rohit ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Rohit, If you installed, as you say, with the KDE control center's font installer and did so as user, then the fonts were installed in your user directory. Either create a new user or search out the fonts in your user directory to delete them.
If you installed as root, then you installed the fonts in your /usr/X11R6/share/fonts/truetype directory and you will have to remove them from there and run your /sbin/SuSEconfig afterwards to correct the problem.
Check the permissions of the font files. I had this problem once and it turned out that all of the font files were owned by root with NO permissions for the users. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)