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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: kde-HEAD fonts question
From:       Arash Zeini <kde () farsikde ! com>
Date:       2002-01-21 11:08:39
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On Monday 21 January 2002 11:54 am, Thomas Diehl wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 20. Januar 2002 14:39 schrieb Arash Zeini:
> > > Or are you hitting the (known) bug that all applications loaded through
> > > kdeinit don't have Xft support at the moment? If you don't care about
> > > performance you can add a line to the startkde script below
> > > 'LD_BIND_NOW kdeinit ...' that starts kdeinit again without the
> > > LD_BIND_NOW option. This does kill performance though, so it's a
> > > tradeoff of eye candy vs. speed.
> >
> > Is this the reason why on Red Hat 7.2 nothing TTF works? When I compile
> > KDE 3 on 7.2 (even KDE 2 that comes with the distribution CDs) anything
> > related to TTFs and Unicode (UTF-8) is messed up. With 7.1 I was able to
> > view web pages in Farsi after installing TTFs, now even this is gone.
>
> FWIW: I see the "all applications loaded through kdeinit don't have Xft
> support" problem on SuSE 7.3 as well. But after starting kdeinit a second
> time (like described above) and setting Konqueror to use Arial Unicode I
> can view www.farsikde.com just fine ...

>From startkde: 

# We set LD_BIND_NOW to increase the efficiency of kdeinit.
# kdeinit unsets this variable before loading applications.
LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit +kcminit +knotify

So you add to the above section this additional line:
kdeinit +kcminit +knotify

Is this correct?

Greetings,
Arash

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