No fonts in kde 3.1, I can't read anything! And as for Konsole...

[James Richard Tyrer]

Andrew wrote:
> Thanks to KDE support I have managed to install KDEbase with the 
> additional calls to overcome my meinproc problems with 
> 
> export KDEDIR='/opt/kde-3.1'
> export KDEDIRS='/opt/kde-3.1'
> 
> before compiling. 
> 
> I have added kdenetwork,  kdeadmin and kdemultimedia functionality 
> since and installed and configured X11 fonts with freetype 1.3.1  and 
> ttmkfdir and before that reinstalled freetype 2.1.3 for peace of mind.
> 
> XF86Config is configured to understand truetype fonts.
> 
> Startx is encouraging, KDE-3.1 splash and the icons blink as it 
> configures, but I have no text on anything, the tip of the day the 
> menus, even the tool menus are little dashes.  Things seem to work but 
> there is nothing to read, except for links  to e-mail addresses and 
> graphics.
> 
> The fonts are miniscule, 1 point or less, impossible to read.  How  and 
> where do I boost the default font size for KDE from bash?
> 
> I figured this is the problem playing with the text editor.  Instead of 
> the cursor jumping down the screen on a carriage return, it sneaked 
> down the more times you pressed the carriage return suggesting a 
> miniscule font setting.
> 
> I wondered about how slow the Konsole application is; going 
> full screen on a 1024x768 monitor takes a good 20 seconds to paint in 
> the black background!!  This is because instead of 60 lines and 80 
> characters per line it is drawing a screen for hundreds of lines and 
> thousands of characters.
> 
> How do we boost the font size?

I don't think that that is going to do it.  There is something more 
basic wrong here.

What are you using for Qt and did you build it from source.

Probably, Qt is not correctly linked to Xft, FontConfig and/or 
FreeType2, but that is just my best guess.

--
JRT

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