-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 3:43 am, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 03:31:45PM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I am running kde under debian unstable and something weird has suddenly > > happened to the fonts in konsole. > > Heh, I wrote all the below before even seeing this actual question! > Which font are you trying to use? the xfonts-konsole one? It doesn't > seem to be in sid ATM, so I guess it's one of Karolina's or Ralf's > packages.
I thought it was xfonts-konsole from Ralf's packages, but thats not the problem. [snip -- interesting, but I sussed most of that now] What I have now discovered is that when konsole has not ever had a font selected and saved before, it asks qt for a list of fonts from the "fixed" family and chooses the closest one to pt size 13. (Using qt to select it with the hint QFonts::Typewriter] Installing FontConfig means that the /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file is processed which adds a whole load of True Type fonts into the available fixed family, and obviously means that qt selects a different one. Unfortunately there seems to be something wrong with the sizing algorithmn - I am not sure of source of this yet, because this means that konsole gets a really ugly font. If I remove fontconfig - then qt now selects the "console" font that came from xfonts-konsole, but because of a metric problem it displays each character at double the width it ought to, making it completely unusable. You can see a png image of this effect at http://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=688&action=view where its been reported as a bug (No 52538). - -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+GFaNuFHxcV2FFoIRAkLfAJ9uB5D8HAuO4tAkcid9h3EcNPJ1ZQCeKBlO UCQGmTSCclNUvnkPzWobMcU= =Xari -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
