Help: DrakFont doesn't work!

[Cdc28p]

A few days, my Mandrake 7.1 font server ran into problem, giving me the much-dreaded "couldn't open default font 'fixed'" error message, and I couldn't start X. I decided to comment out Mandrake font server:

# FontPath "unix/:-1"

And I added

FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/pcf_drakfont"

My problem now is that the fonts for non KDE2 applications (in message boxes, menus, etc...) are way too big and ugly. This didn't happen when the Mandrake font server was up.

Any suggestion or help would be greatly appreciated!

[Cdc28p]

Any help? Thanks!!!

[Bernd]

As much as I know the messages boxes and menus should be in KDE style and use its fonts. You can try to change the fonts for your applications using the KDE control center under the section LookNFeel.
Or you try to start the xfs deamon and uncomment the unix/:-1 fontpath line.
Another possibility is to install truetype fonts and to see what happens. How to install it depends on your xfree version, see NHF's for further details how to install it.

Bernd

[This message has been edited by Bernd (edited 10 November 2000).]

[Cdc28p]

I know why my Mandrake font server couldn't run. I didn't have enough space on my / partition!

[ille_pugil42]

That would make a difference. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif I guess sometimes we (me included) look for a complicated issue when its something simple. That's a lesson for all of us.