Per Posted August 5, 2006 Report Share Posted August 5, 2006 I'm running a recently updated cooker and recently the fonts have been moved from /usr/lib/x11/fonts to /usr/share/fonts. I changed the FontPaths in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to point to the new location. I noticed that some fonts were missing as some applications used other fonts than earlier. After a resart of X many applications, such as konsole and kate, were missing much or all of their text. An X restart later after having removed an non-existant directory from the XOrg configuration file X wouldn't even start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoonma Posted August 5, 2006 Report Share Posted August 5, 2006 Hi Per, you wrote: I'm running a recently updated cooker and recently the fonts have been moved from /usr/lib/x11/fonts to /usr/share/fonts. I changed the FontPaths in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to point to the new location. I noticed that some fonts were missing as some applications used other fonts than earlier. [...] Maybe the "chkfontpath" command fits your needs. You can see the options by "chkfontpath --help". Good luck, scoonma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted August 6, 2006 Report Share Posted August 6, 2006 Some hints for solving this are here, although it did not fix the issue with all users. http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoonma Posted August 9, 2006 Report Share Posted August 9, 2006 If you could not manage to fix this in the meantime, the following may help: 1. Find out the "real location" of your (X11) fonts. After the last cooker update, this is /usr/share/fonts on my system. 2. Create one or two symbolic links pointing from the old location(s) to the new one: "ln -s /usr/share/fonts /usr/lib/X11/fonts" "ln -s /usr/share/fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts" If (one of) the latter doesn't help, please check the X11 error message in detail and adjust the softlink target appropriately. Good luck, scoonma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Per Posted August 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 I solved the problem by adding FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc" to the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Now I'm back with my old problem with all applications showing almost no text. KDE applications seems worse in this regard than e.g. Firefox. In Firefox text can be displayed if I select it. It then may disappear again after a few seconds. This trick doesn't work in e.g. Konqueror. One odd thing is that even in Konqueror the top menu has text when I start it, but if I move the mouse there, or use a keyboard shortcut, the text disappears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoonma Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 Hi Per, you can have multiple FontPath entries to your xorg.conf. Just put in all fonts you need. (100dpi, 75dpi, Speedo, ttf, Type1,...) I don't know much about KDE, but if it's using other fonts, you should add them too. HTH, scoonma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Per Posted August 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 The problem seems related to the nVidia driver. When I changed to the 'nv' driver the problem went away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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