KDE Problem

[vlatkovr3]

When i use GNOME (on RH 7.1) everything is ok, but in KDE the font used for everything (menu, icons) is terribly small and it looks awful. How can i fix this?

[The Anti-Void]

Play around with the kde control center's font option and seek if you can make the fonts look decent. What I suggest is to do is set all the fonts (except for fixed with) to 12 point arial.

You probably don't have arial installed so you'll have to download the webfonts package from www.rpmfind.net (http://www.rpmfind.net) After installing that add the line '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts,' to the catalogue section of your /etc/X11/fs/config file. Then restart X and you sould have arial along with some other truetype fonts.

[bdg1983]

I personally find helvetica to be the best. On a 19" monitor running at 1600x1200, helvetica at 12point seems to be quite good in Konqueror.

Also experimenting with the font order in XF86Config-4 also helps. Mine is as so...

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ghostscript"
EndSection

Mine seems to do better with the 100, 75 and misc unscaled at the beginning.

If you figured out how to start KDE, could you please let others know in your other thread titled GNOME & KDE (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=023623).

[ 07 October 2001: Message edited by: mdwatts the 3rd ]