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Moebius
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 Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 6:09 pm Post subject: Konqueror uses weird fonts on some Websites |
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Hello everyone!
The last Xfree- and KDE-update (Xfree 4.3.0 revision r2, KDE 3.1.4) caused som troubles.
Most of them could be solved easily (THANKS TO ALL GENTOO-FORUM_USERS). But one problem rests unsolved...
I really had a hard look at all the Gentoo-Forum stuff, but I couldn't find any solution. My Konqueror uses weird fonts on some Websites. Just have a look at that Snapshot....
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tawtao
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| Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 3:59 am Post subject: |
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It seems like konqueror using "fixed" fonts on this webpage. I think, when konqueror require some specific font to xfs (X fonts server) but xfs does not recognize it, it return "fixed" font by default.
Well ... you might need to check up your xfs configuration. First check the font directory list in the file
/etc/X11/fs/config
Add all font directory you may have there and restart xfs.
Now you might need to check file /etc/fonts/local.conf
Add all font directory you may have there, and run
to see weather the font caches have been created.
Then go back and check the website again. This time, you should have all the fonts you need  ... I hope.
Oh ... if you may ask, the fonts usually located in this two directory,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
/usr/share/fonts
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Moebius
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 1:17 pm Post subject: I have tried it out. |
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Thank you for your tips. Your description of the problem seemed to hit it. So I have tried it out, but it didn't work unfortunately.
But I have learned a bit about fonts and how they are handled (I discovered, that I had installed several fonts twice...), so I removed the twice installed fonts...
And now even Mozilla wouldn't start (Error in the Java-Plugin-Library, some unresolved stuff)...
In the KDE-Control-center it says, that I refresh my font list with xset fp rehash.
Should I change that? |
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tawtao
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| Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2003 3:40 am Post subject: Re: I have tried it out. |
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| Moebius wrote: | Thank you for your tips. Your description of the problem seemed to hit it. So I have tried it out, but it didn't work unfortunately.
But I have learned a bit about fonts and how they are handled (I discovered, that I had installed several fonts twice...), so I removed the twice installed fonts...
And now even Mozilla wouldn't start (Error in the Java-Plugin-Library, some unresolved stuff)...
In the KDE-Control-center it says, that I refresh my font list with xset fp rehash.
Should I change that? |
I though I hit it too  ... but very unfortunate ... I cut/paste this from man page of xset,
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xset fp rehash
The rehash argument resets the font path to its current value,
causing the server to reread the font databases in the current
font path. This is generally only used when adding new fonts
to a font directory (after running mkfontdir to recreate the
font database).
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I think it should be safe to do it because what it does is "casuing the server to reread the font database", which is equivalent to restart xfs or restart X.
One more thing, have you check your fonts data base? Each directory that contain fonts suppose to have at least the "fonts.dir" file. This "fonts.dir" map your font discription to font file name. This can be created by command "mkfontdir". I also notice that there are more of "fonts.*" files, such as, fonts.cache-1, fonts.list, fonts.scale. I have know idea how I get these file. They created when I install the fonts? I guess, fonts.cache-1 is created with command, fc-cache -fv. Other fonts.* files, I have know idea.
By the way, there are at least three ways of config fonts for X windows!
One is using "xfs", X-font server. It configuration is in /etc/X11/fs/config. The second one is using FontPath in /etc/X11/XF86Config. Here is example,
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Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:-1"
FontPath "/path/to/your/fonts"
FontPath "/path/to/your/fonts"
FontPath "/path/to/your/fonts"
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The first font path tell X to find fonts from xfs, which I think should eliminate needed of other FontPath bellow the first line. But unfortunate, If I delete other FontPath lines, my openoffice can not find all fonts. I just put it there.
The third way is using fontconfig. This package is used to configuring and customizing font access. The configuration of the fontconfig package is in
/etc/fonts
The command "fc-cache" is a part of this package. I don't know much about this package at all. Basically, I add this two line to my
/etc/fonts/local.conf
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<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
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And run "fc-cache -fv" ...
I hope I did not repeat any information you already know. If I do, please accept my apology.
Have fun with configurating X fonts. |
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Moebius
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| Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 4:24 pm Post subject: Re: I have tried it out. |
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| tawtao wrote: |
I hope I did not repeat any information you already know. If I do, please accept my apology.
Have fun with configurating X fonts. |
No, you didn't. Thanks a lot for your detailed information. In the moment I am happy, that I managed to "repair" Mozilla (it was just a permission-problem) and I am quite busy....
So, I will try it later, but I will tell you if I was succesful or not. |
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