beesea Posted January 8, 2003 Report Share Posted January 8, 2003 i logged into kde for the first time in several months and noticed that all of a sudden its not recognizing my windows true type fonts (i copied them over to linux). i don't have this problem with fluxbox or gnome. the fonts even show up in xfontsel and in drakfont. i also tried reinstalling the fonts, but to no success. anyone know how i can get kde to recognize these particular fonts? is there some kde font path i need to set? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 8, 2003 Report Share Posted January 8, 2003 What happens if you select the Use AA Fonts in Control Center>Look and Feel>Fonts? Or is it already? Shouldn't matter, but maybe it'll help???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beesea Posted January 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2003 i tried that, but it doesn't help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 8, 2003 Report Share Posted January 8, 2003 I know there's a qt3xft.sh and .csh (or something) in /etc/profile.d (ML9.0). I don't know much about kde...sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beesea Posted January 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2003 i looked in there already, but qtxft3.sh only controls antialiasing and kde3.sh sets a bash alias. nothing about where to look for fonts I don't know much about kde...sorry. yeah, me neither :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 9, 2003 Report Share Posted January 9, 2003 Either edit /home/your_name/.kde/share/fonts/fonts.dir or view the permisions on it>copy (as root) /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf/fonts.dir (if where yours are)>edit permisions>restart X, and see if that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beesea Posted January 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2003 tried that but it didn't work. i did however get it working. i was playing around with the order of directories in /etc/X11/fs/config and i also moved the fonts from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf to fonts/winfonts. somehow doing one of those two things, or both, got kde recognizing my fonts again. i'm not sure why, but it works again. anyways, thanks for your help bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 9, 2003 Report Share Posted January 9, 2003 Hey, have you tried>KDE Control Center>System>Font Installer? Kmail was putting a bunch of "=20" in my wifes sent emails and after running it as root (for global), it seems to be fixed. [EDIT]Cool!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beesea Posted February 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 it happened again! i have no idea what causes this, but its really annoying. anyway, i tried doing what i did last time and everything else suggested last time this happened but nothing works. now i'm left with an opera (uses qt) that doesn't have windows fonts available to it. can anyone help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobGuy© Posted February 9, 2003 Report Share Posted February 9, 2003 i logged into kde for the first time in several months and noticed that all of a sudden its not recognizing my windows true type fonts (i copied them over to linux). I'm not a expert at this, but I think that kde wants you to use the font installer in the MCC instead of just 'copying them over'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beesea Posted February 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2003 i have to install fonts manually because the font installer in mcc doesn't ever install fonts correctly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beesea Posted February 10, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2003 i got my kde recognizing my fonts again. i reset the font cache using the fc-cache command, although i'm not sure that what actually did it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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