On Thursday 30 December 2004 22:15, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> David Corbin wrote:
> > On Thursday 30 December 2004 16:15, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>
> The change in the KCM should propagate through KDE applications that are
> open (it takes like 10 seconds or so). Other applications might need to
> be restarted.
>
> So, I don't know what to tell you. I presume that you were having the
> problem in KMail since you mentioned it. I tried "Nimbus Sans L" and it
> works in the KMail menus on my KDE-3.3.2 installation.
>
> People do report such problems from time to time. Do you have the wrong
> font in the MenuBar as well as the menus.
Yes. Menu, MenuBar, Dialogs, the "View Source Window". And it's not *just*
KMail. It appears to be all the KDE apps (I've tried 3 or 4 four different
ones).
I have, however set several KMail specific font settings and those work fine.
>
> Qt uses FontConfig and it is necessary that it find your fonts. You can
> rebuild the caches and check this by opening a Konsole:
>
> su -
> <enter your password>
> fc-cache -fv
>
> This may take a while. It will list all of the font directories it is
> using and how many fonts if finds in each.
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1": caching, 29 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts": caching, 0 fonts, 22 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/CID": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/TTF": caching, 22 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/ukr": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/misc": caching, 52 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/util": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/default": caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript": caching, 43 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi": caching, 308 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/Type1": caching, 29 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/local": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/lfp-fix": caching, 154 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/encodings": caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/terminus": caching, 18 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts": caching, 21 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/freefont": caching, 78 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/unifont": caching, 2 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi": caching, 308 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts": caching, 30 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/lfpfonts-var": caching, 65 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts": caching, 37 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/local/share/fonts": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi": caching, 308 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi": caching, 308 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/root/.fonts": skipping, no such directory
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts": caching, 0 fonts, 13 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF": caching, 22 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ukr": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc": caching, 52 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi": caching, 308 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1": caching, 29 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings": caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi": caching, 308 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: succeeded
>
> And/or
>
> You can run this to make sure it is finding the font:
>
> fc-list | grep "Nimbus Sans L"
Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Italic
Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold
Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular
Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Condensed
Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Italic
Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Condensed Italic
Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Condensed
Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Condensed Italic
>
> If you have installed a distro, you could check the distro's help list
> to see if it is a distro related bug.
>
It's Gentoo. And I will ask there.
> It is possible that you also needed to upgrade FreeType2.
Would that be this?
* media-libs/freetype
Latest version available: 2.1.5-r1
Latest version installed: 2.1.5-r1
Size of downloaded files: 830 kB
Homepage: http://www.freetype.org/
Description: A high-quality and portable font engine
License: || ( FTL GPL-2 )
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