* Markus Kohli [04-22-03 09:37]:

*hrumpf*

Looks like I didn't actually include the screenshot. No matter. It's just empty whitespace everywhere...

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Am Dienstag, 22. April 2003 22:58 schrieb Daniel Eckl:

Hmmmmmmmm,

Do you have this problem in konsole, too?

Do you use qt-3.1.2 compiled against Xft2?

That would be my first guess, because tweaking around with qt3, my first and main tip for all people is: Never compile qt3 against Xft2, because Xft2 has critical problems with fixed fonts like "fixed (misc)" and many others. Only TTF fixed width fonts are working as far as I can remember.

E.g. you have compiled against Xft2, if you updated to XFree 4.3.0 and after that rebuilt qt3 e.g. from src.rpm

If s.o. wants a small how-to "how to compile qt3 against Xft1 after installing Xfree 4.3.0", please answer to the list, then I'll post some info 'bout that.

Greets, Daniel

Zitat von Markus Kohli :

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*hrumpf*

Looks like I didn't actually include the screenshot. No matter. It's just empty whitespace everywhere...

Any help greatly appreciated

It is a XFree4.3/qt-3.1.2 (SuSE) issue. My fix was downloading the qt3-3.1.2-0.src.rpm source rpm from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.1.1/SuSE/src and rebuild it with rpm --rebuild --target=i686-suse-linux qt3-3.1.2-0.src.rpm. Install with rpm -Uvh /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i686/qt3-... und execute 'SuSEconfig'. After restarting XFree/KDE everything has been ok again. You once gave me the hint with Xft2/Xft1, but I never tried it. The above worked fine for me. Tim

Guess I'll have to sort this one out on my own.

I've been able to locate the error (more or less). The problem is definitely somewhere in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf Does anybody have the original fonts.conf that came with XFree 4.3 w/o fontconfig installed? I was dumb enough not to save mine before installing fontconfig (eventhough rpm warned me, this file would conflict...) TIA Markus -- spel chek roks!

On Thursday 24 April 2003 08:30, Daniel Eckl wrote:

But I have found 3 versions in my folder /etc/fonts. Perhaps one fits your needs. If this is true, please tell me which one.

Well well well! I simply copied your fonts.conf to my /etc/fonts, and voilà, everything works like a charm! I've put a diff at the end of this mail, just in case anybody wanted to analyze this. For me the problem's solved :-D Thanks a lot! Markus Here we go. The on in /etc/fonts is the fonts.conf from Daniel, the one in my home is mine (what a surprise). kohli@karlchen:~> diff fonts.conf /etc/fonts/fonts.conf 3c3 < <!-- /etc/fonts.conf file to configure system font access --> ---

<!-- /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file to configure system font access --> 6a7,10 DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. IT WILL BE REPLACED WHEN FONTCONFIG IS UPDATED. LOCAL CHANGES BELONG IN 'local.conf'.

14c18 < Note that the normal 'make install' procedure for XFree86 is to ---

Note that the normal 'make install' procedure for fontconfig is to

21c25 < <!-- Font directory list configured on Wed Mar 5 12:45:59 CET 2003 --> ---

<!-- Font directory list configured on Mon Apr 7 02:27:18 CEST 2003 --> 23,24d26 < <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir> < <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype</dir> 25a28 <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1</dir> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW</dir> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype</dir> 139a143,167 Some Asian fonts misadvertise themselves as monospaced when in fact they are dual-spaced (half and full). This makes FreeType very confused as it forces all widths to match. Undo this magic by disabling the width forcing code --> <match target="font"> <test name="family"><string>GulimChe</string></test> <edit name="globaladvance"><bool>false</bool></edit> </match>

<match target="font"> <test name="family"><string>DotumChe</string></test> <edit name="globaladvance"><bool>false</bool></edit> </match>

<match target="font"> <test name="family"><string>BatangChe</string></test> <edit name="globaladvance"><bool>false</bool></edit> </match>

<match target="font"> <test name="family"><string>GungsuhChe</string></test> <edit name="globaladvance"><bool>false</bool></edit> </match>

<!-- 169a198,225 Check user preference to avoid bitmap fonts and replace bitmap face names with equivalent scalable fonts -->

<match target="pattern"> <test name="prefer_outline"> <bool>true</bool> </test> <test name="family"> <string>Helvetica</string> </test> <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same"> <string>Arial</string> </edit> </match>

<match target="pattern"> <test name="prefer_outline"> <bool>true</bool> </test> <test name="family"> <string>Times</string> </test> <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same"> <string>Times New Roman</string> </edit> </match> -- Please do not look into laser with remaining eyeball.