konsole font problem.

[David Harel]

OK, Here is what solved the problem.
On XF86 4.3.0 the font directory /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc has a bad font 
file in it named 12x13ja.pcf.gz.
This is solved in version 4.4.0. All I did was take the font file: 
ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.4.0/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc23/Xfnts.tgz

On the way to success, I had to struggle with some problems to which 
this list helped a lot. To begin with, by default on RH9 xfs is used to 
manage fonts. Because of that I did not get clear indication about fonts 
problems when I unintentionally caused them. Eventually I found that xfs 
logs errors  in /var/log/messages (system log). (start looking in the 
init startup script which leads you to the xfs config file 
(/etc/X11/fs/config) in it there is a directive " use-syslog = on"). So 
eventually I could find errors logs such as:
"Apr  8 01:48:20 harellaptop xfs: ignoring font path element 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled (unreadable)"

Also to make sure old fonts versions were not cached I did plenty of 
fc-cache -vf to flush the cache before restarting xfs


David Harel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After installing KDE 3.2.1 I have an ugly looking font when selecting 
> "Medium" font in Konsole. When selecting "Large" font it looks smaller 
> than medium but seems to be as it used to. My machine is RH9 X11 is 
> XF86 4.3.0
>

-- 
Thanks.

David Harel,

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