FWIW my slack 9.1 install placing the variable $KDEDIR in the local.conf didn't work, I have to locate the font file and specify the path (was in /opt/kde) even though $KDEDIR = /opt/kde.
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: kde@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 05:43:19 -0700
>Albert Ren wrote:
>> I installed the slack 9.1 packages off of kde.org and now konsole is
>> complaining about this:
>>
>> "Font `-misc-console-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso10646-1' not
>> found.
>> Check README.linux.console for help."
>>
>> I'm not exactly sure what this is. I've checked out my XF86 font
>> directories, and even followed a suggestion I found through usenet to
>> copy the *.gz files from /opt/kde/share/fonts to the misc font
>> directory, but that doesn't seem to work.
>>
>> Anyone got any bright ideas?
>
>The file name for this font is:
>
>console8x16.pcf.gz
>
>It will be installed in: $KDEDIR/share/fonts
>
>If KDE is not installed with a perfix of: "/usr", then you must add this
>directory to: /etc/fonts/local.conf. Add this as the next to last line of
>the file just before: </fontconfig>:
>
> <dir>$KDEDIR/share/fonts</dir>
>
>OR, you can move the files:
>
> 9x15.pcf.gz
> console8x16.pcf.gz
> console8x8.pcf.gz
>
>to: /usr/share/fonts/ and then make a link:
>
> $KDEDIR/share/fonts -> /usr/share/fonts
>
>and after you do one or the other (NOT both) execute as root:
>
> fc-cache -vf
>
>You might have to restart KDE before it will find the font.
>
>--
>JRT
>
>
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