Fonts OK in KDE but not elsewhere
I've just installed the Bitstream Vera family using the KDE Control centre. This seems to have gone fine as far as KDE/Qt apps are concerned, but my Gnome/Gtk1&2 apps have now lost track of most of my installed fonts. ISTR something like this happened before, but I can't remember what I had to do to fix it. Can anyone remind me? TiA John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Knossos: escape the ever-changing labyrinth before the Minotaur catches you!
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:19, John Pettigrew wrote:
I've just installed the Bitstream Vera family using the KDE Control centre. This seems to have gone fine as far as KDE/Qt apps are concerned, but my Gnome/Gtk1&2 apps have now lost track of most of my installed fonts.
ISTR something like this happened before, but I can't remember what I had to do to fix it. Can anyone remind me?
TiA
John
John, Try running SuSEconfig and see if that fixes it, otherwise this worked in an older version of SuSE. To reinitialise all your truetypes please follow these steps. 1) Change to where the fonts are. cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype 2) Determine if there are any files been created for the scaling of the ttf's. ls -l fonts.s* 3) Remove all these files. rm fonts.s* 4) Create a new font scale file. ttmkfdir | sed s/^[0-9]*// > fonts.scale.myfonts 5) Now run SuSEconfig.fonts /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.fonts 6) Run xset to reread the font paths xset fp rehash You should be able to see the fonts with xfontsel -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------
In a previous message, Graham Smith <gqs@iinet.net.au> wrote:
5) Now run SuSEconfig.fonts /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.fonts
This was the single thing I needed to do - I found after a little digging. I'd tried to run SuSEconfig by doing a YOU session, but obviously (despite displaying the fonts module in the on-screen list) this wasn't done properly. However, I now have all my fonts back :-) Shame SuSE doesn't patch the KDE CC to do this, given that their system requires it. Of course, it's an even bigger pity that the KDE CC font installer doesn't do whatever SuSEconfig does - very unfriendly of it :-( John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Valley of the Kings: ransack an ancient Egyptian tomb but beware of mummies!
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