AAAARGGGG!!! FONTS DO NOT WORK!!!

[PuterFreaK]

OK Apparently nobody can access my previous post anymore because ubb is stupid so I will restate it.

The first time I went into KDE everything worked perfectly. However, the second time and on I started to experience huge problems with fonts.
The default font for almost every KDE application was some unreadable cursive font. On top of that, most of the other fonts look completely distorted either with letters on top of each other or waaay too far apart.
Fonts in gnome programs (such as gaim and even mozilla) are HUGE.
ANY IDEAS? Im about to go insane.
Ive tried 3 versions of KDE with the same problem. I am running RedHat 7.2 but had the same problem on 7.1.

[Gaccm]

i had the exact same thing. Heres what i did, i looked around for some truetype fonts and installed them and added another font path in XF86Config. I also, went and deleted all the font paths that pointed to ugly fonts (all of my fonts turned into bitstream, bleh). As a last ditch effort, you can try editting the conf files. look in ~/.kde/share/config the 2 files dealing with fonts are konquerorrc and kde..... something, like kdebase.

P.S. What distro do you have? i am using debian.

[thor420]

Check out this link:
how others did it (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=12&t=000285)

It helped me out tremendously. ;)

[PuterFreaK]

Originally posted by PuterFreaK:
<STRONG>OK Apparently nobody can access my previous post anymore because ubb is stupid so I will restate it.

The first time I went into KDE everything worked perfectly. However, the second time and on I started to experience huge problems with fonts.
The default font for almost every KDE application was some unreadable cursive font. On top of that, most of the other fonts look completely distorted either with letters on top of each other or waaay too far apart.
Fonts in gnome programs (such as gaim and even mozilla) are HUGE.
ANY IDEAS? Im about to go insane.
Ive tried 3 versions of KDE with the same problem. I am running RedHat 7.2 but had the same problem on 7.1.
</STRONG>

[PuterFreaK]

OK I got my windows fonts working but only as root? When I load X as another user they dont show up.

Also, the menus in gnome applications are still HUGE.

Any ideas? I hope this is the last problem.

Thanks for all your help!

[PuterFreaK]

Originally posted by PuterFreaK:
<STRONG>OK I got my windows fonts working but only as root? When I load X as another user they dont show up.

I fixed the gnome fonts problem by loading the gnome control center and chaning the settings.

Any ideas? I hope this is the last problem.

Thanks for all your help!</STRONG>

[PuterFreaK]

OK I fixed the gnome fonts problem by loading the gnome control center and chaning the settings but any ideas about kde?

[bdg1983]

Have you tried the KDE Control Center? That's where I configure the fonts.

Also check the font order in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Experimenting with the order of the fonts may help.

This is how mine are set and I have no complaints at all about how my fonts look. Better than any version of Windows I've used.

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
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/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
# FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ghostscript"
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