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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Fonts in CVS
From:       Allen Winter <winterz () verizon ! net>
Date:       2003-11-07 15:09:47
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On Thursday 06 November 2003 08:43 pm, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
> On Thursday 06 November 2003 4:47 pm, Allen Winter wrote:
> > Hello Everyone:
> >
> > I just started running the CVS version (built myself)  and the first
> > thing I noticed is that all my fonts are gone and the fonts being used
> > are rather small and ugly.  Should I have started with a clean .kde
> > subdir or something?  This is on RH9.
> >
> > I must be doing something wrong... any ideas?
>
> Perhaps QT didn't find Xft2.  Run qt-copy's configure with the -verbose
> option.  You should see something like this:
>
> Xft auto-detection... ()
>   Found libXft2.so in /usr/lib
>   Found X11/Xft/Xft.h in /usr/X11R6/include
>   Found X11/Xft/Xft.h in /usr/include
>   Found Xft version 2.0
>   Found freetype2/freetype/freetype.h in /usr/include
>   Found fontconfig/fontconfig.h in /usr/X11R6/include
> Xft enabled.
>
> On RedHat 8, I had to create a symbolic link (can't remember where) to get
> qt-copy to see Xft properly.
>
> I'm looking forward to moving back to Debian, and being able to apt-get cvs
> debs.  :)
>
Thanks for the response Mark.
I haven't checked the Xft issue yet, but I have found that by removing all the
kde cache stuff in /tmp, and starting with a fresh ~/.kde, I at least get the
pretty default fonts.  I guess I'll start from scratch... which is probably
the best thing to do anyhow.
 
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