I'm having some issues with KDE-3.2 (which I compiled myself), regarding the rendering of Anti-Aliased Fonts. I have a feeling I am overlooking something *really* simple, or something plain weird is happening. Either way, it's something that I cannot explain.
-- Problem description
I downloaded Konstruct, made sure my libraries were up-to-date, and started the build-process. This all went OK. After it was installed, I ran it, and wanted to enable Anti-Aliasing.
After I have enabled it, and start up, say Konsole, from the panel, it comes up, without any anti-aliasing. So I thought I needed to restart X, which I did.
When the KDE comes up, it displays the Splash Screen, in which the progress-text (like Initializing peripherals, etc) *does* appear anti-aliased, but when kdesktop and kicker load, they just show the crappy un-anti-aliased font.
After some tinkering, I also noted that, when I start Konsole manually from a running Konsole, the Konsole application *does* appear with the fonts rendered anti-aliased (except the title bar). This also happens to be the case when running konqueror from the Konsole.
If the KDE has come up, and the session is restored, I see an un-anti-aliased Konsole-window. If I run konqueror from that manually, the browser *does* come up with anti-aliasing. (See http://homebaze.net/img/freakin-weird.png for a screenshot.)
I find this terribly odd, and I can't seem to find anything on the Web describing a similar problem.
What makes this whole situation even weirder, is when I want to run, for instance, Kword from Run command... If I type in just ``kword'', it appears un-anti-aliased and also a lot of fonts are missing from the Select Font thingy.
If, at Run command... I supply the path to the executable (i.e. ``/opt/kde-3.2/bin/kword''), it *does* appear anti-aliased, and also all the fonts appear in the font-selection thing.
[ PS: This is not because of multiple binaries in the path, because there is only one KDE directory on this machine. The previous KDE installation (a 3.2-beta release) was totally removed from disked, as I have ~/.kde and ~/.kderc. Also, I have only 1 QT library on this machine, and all the KDE applications seem to be correctly linked against that, too.]
I have Googled extensively and double checked XF86Config and XftConfig file, etc. but all to no avail; at initial start-up of the KDE it seems to ignore the anti-aliasing setting (except for ksplash; which appears perfectly anti-aliased when starting up.)
I have attached them below this email but I don't think anything is wrong with it, as Anti-Aliasing *does* work in the situation I describe above, so I am kind-a convinced X11 is set up correctly.
Somehow I have a feeling this is either QT or KDE related, I just can't put my finger on what's causing this.
I have checked and compared environment variables, before running the KDE and from the Konsole session to check if that might be the problem, but I can't find it. :( I even tried adding the QT_XFT=1 before running startx, but that doesn't seem to do the trick either...
This problem has been haunting me for a few evenings now, and I'm kinda running out of ideas here.
I was hoping anybody could give me any suggestions where to look at next...
Thanks in advance for any replies.
Best regards, Hugo
*** XF86Config (relevant sections) ***
Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "dga" Load "dri" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" EndSection
Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts" EndSection
*** XftConfig ***
# # Substitute TrueType fonts for Type1 versions # match any family == "Times" edit family += "Times New Roman"; match any family == "Helvetica" edit family += "Verdana"; match any family == "Courier" edit family += "Courier New";
#
# Use monotype.com (andale) face where possible
#
match
any family == "mono"
all slant == roman
all weight < bold
edit
family += "monotype.com";
#
# otherwise, use courier
#
match any family == "mono" edit family += "Courier New";# # Alias between XLFD families and font file family name, prefer local # fonts # match any family == "charter" edit family += "bitstream charter"; match any family == "bitstream charter" edit family =+ "charter"; match any family == "Lucidux Serif" edit family += "LuciduxSerif"; match any family == "LuciduxSerif" edit family =+ "Lucidux Serif";
match any family == "Lucidux Sans" edit family += "LuciduxSans"; match any family == "LuciduxSans" edit family =+ "Lucidux Sans";
match any family == "Lucidux Mono" edit family += "LuciduxMono"; match any family == "LuciduxMono" edit family =+ "Lucidux Mono";
# # TrueType font aliases # match any family == "Comic Sans" edit family += "Comic Sans MS"; match any family == "Comic Sans MS" edit family =+ "Comic Sans"; match any family == "Trebuchet" edit family += "Trebuchet MS"; match any family == "Trebuchet MS" edit family =+ "Trebuchet"; match any family == "Monotype" edit family =+ "Monotype.com"; match any family == "Andale Mono" edit family += "Monotype.com"; match any family == "Monotype.com" edit family =+ "Mincho";
dir "/etc/fonts" dir "/usr/local/share/fonts" dir "/usr/share/fonts" dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts" dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local" dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype" dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
includeif "~/.xftconfig"
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