Fonts have disappeared

Uncle Ringo · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 6

Since I re-emerged fontconfig, some of my fonts seem to have disappeared. When i log in as root (in kde) no fonts appear at all, not even squares. Logged in as my normal user konqueror only displays little squares for some/all the characters on the screen in certain pages, for example www.kde.org!

This is obviously pretty annoying. I've tried re-emerging xft and freetype but to no avail. Has anyone else experienced this?

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BillyD · Guru Joined: 05 May 2002 Posts: 323 Location: Australia

Try running fc-update
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phunkphorce · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 145

I didn't have fc-update as the poster above suggests but running fc-cache solved a similar problem for me...
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Uncle Ringo · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 6

Cheers for the replies. I'll try them out as soon as I'm home from work.

Rich

Uncle Ringo · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 6

I don't have fc-update (could you tell me what i have to emerge to get it?) and running fc-cache has made no difference.

I used to rely on kportage to quickly find packages to emerge, but i don't have it since fonts are broken in root

I presume there are command line progs that'll tell u what package a certain program/file is? I've checked the manual for emerge but it doesn't look obvious to me that it lets you do this? Can anyone enlighten me?

Uncle Ringo · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 6

It seems that i've lost helvetica, as changing this to arial in konquorer fixes my little squares problem. I guess this is the problem with root having no fonts show up at all, since helvetica is the default for kde. nice one!

So does anyone know what might have happened to helvetica? which package is it part of? And how do I get fc-update? so many questions!!

I'd really apprciate any light thrown on this

Rich

dpowers · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 May 2002 Posts: 119

I have the same problem. The main KDE font is now squares. Sigh...

ffderrickg · n00b Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 25

I had the same problem of little squares after following this thread.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=23575

Do an "emerge search font" and see what builds you have installed.

Try freefonts,sharefonts and freetype.

I had to emerge fontconfig after adding new font builds.

backtracking usually fixes my problems. Mostly operator error. Always make a copy of a file ~.orig before you edit.

Hope this helps.
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Uncle Ringo · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 6

Cheers ffderrickg!

After following your advice my fonts have re-appeared. Excellent

Thanks very much
Rich