No Characters in KDE

glober · Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2003 7:26 pm Post subject: No Characters in KDE

So here I was running Kde 3.0.4 with no problems, and I decided to upgrade to 3.1. I did a "emerge kde", and 36 plus hours later the compiling was finished. To note, I did the emerge running under Kde 3.0.4, and I did notice the problem under 3.0.4 even before the compile was finished. The problem being that if i opened a Kde application all characters in the menus and buttons were all squares. I thought that maybe it was normal due to the new 3.1 install. After 3.1 finished emerging I rebooted into 3.1 only to see the same problem, all characters in the menus, submenus, and buttons were squares. I then rebooted into Gnome and found no problems there. I then decided to unmerge Kde 3.0.4 to see if that would fix things. No go. I booted up with 3.1 and had the same problem. I then decided to unmerge Kde 3.1, deleted all kde related folders in the user directories, emerged Kde 3.1 again. After 36 plus hours again, I booted into 3.1, and found the look a little different, I think what they call the ceramik look, but the problem was still there, although a little different in that all the characters were all horizontal lines ( maybe underline characters ) and not square characters. To note again, Gnome has no problem. Running a Kde application from Gnome shows the problem in the Kde application. Running a non-Kde application like Mozilla from Kde shows no problem in Mozilla. Does anybody have a clue why this is happening?

Any help would be appreciated

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markkuk · Guru Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 446

On my machine KDE3.1 worked OK until I emerged XFree86 4.2.99.4, then all text disappeared. The KDM login screen and plain X+twm are still working.

bonito · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 80

Try emerging qt again...I had the same problem when I upgraded xfree86 after already having 3.1rc6 on my machine. I came on here and was told to do that and had no problems thereafter.

glober · Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 2:11 am Post subject:

bonito · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 80

I really dont know how to help you than...I usually have a problem and just fiddle with it and ask around and search and search until I find what works...I mean it could be a lot of different things, old builds of 3.0.4 on your system causing dependancy problems or anything...I am just shooting in the dark here, but I know that the combination works for me %100 so its something where if you have time and patience and have given up on what to do you can just remove all x related components and start fresh...letting the computer sit for 6 nights compiling is always lots of fun

bonito · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 80

I really dont know how to help you than...I usually have a problem and just fiddle with it and ask around and search and search until I find what works...I mean it could be a lot of different things, old builds of 3.0.4 on your system causing dependancy problems or anything...I am just shooting in the dark here, but I know that the combination works for me %100 so its something where if you have time and patience and have given up on what to do you can just remove all x related components and start fresh...letting the computer sit for 6 nights compiling is always lots of fun

Kezza · n00b Joined: 11 Dec 2002 Posts: 49

since we're all shooting in the dark, then I will find my trusty revolver...

1. you may have a strange local setting ($LANG). Try xfontsel to see if all fonts are like this. Setting the Fonts to Default in the Control Centre may be an option.

2. since it is only in KDE, you may try looking at your locale settings (Control Centre / Regional & Accessibility / Country/Region & Language)

It's not much to go on; I hope it helps. Cheers.

bammbamm808 · Guru Joined: 08 Dec 2002 Posts: 548 Location: Hawaii

Does root have all characters displaying in all fonts? That was the case for me. Turns out the permissions on all my fonts had been set so that only root had any rights to them at all. I just fixed the permissions, and those nasty rectangles went away.
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tyreth · Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 2:50 pm Post subject:

Perhaps the answer is to be found in upgrading xfree86?
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14794

glober · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 2:23 am Post subject: