On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 20:49:36 -0500 Michael Fratoni <mfratoni@tuxfan.homeip.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 19 December 2002 10:43 am, Ross Macintyre wrote: > > Hi, I hope someone can help. > > I have set up redhat 8.0 on a few machines with a view to running 8.0 > > in a lab here at Heriot-Watt University. > > I guess the setups haven't been run exactly the same because some > > machines are acting differently from others. (This has never bothered > > me in the past as I check that all the machines have the same > > software later by running 'rpm -qa', comparing the output, and then > > updating or deleting rpms to make the machines the 'same') > > But now I have done this, I find only one machine seems to run a > > konsole from kde correctly. When I fire up a konsole on the machines > > that don't work correctly, there is no font set and the list of fonts > > offered is quite large compared to the machine where it is working. The > > machine on which konsole behaves correctly offers only these 4 fonts > > from Settings/Font/Custom: > > Courier > > Courier 10 Pitch > > Lucidatypewriter > > Luxi Mono > > Monospace > > and Monospace is the default. > > > > Whereas on the machines where the font has to be set explicitly to make > > it work, there is a much wider choice of fonts, but no default set, and > > no Monospace font offered. > > Can someone tell me where this list of fonts is found? > > Is the xfs font server involved here? > > By the way, the machine has the monospace font as default, works when I > > sit at the console, but if I connect to it using exceed from an NT PC, > > then it also appears broken. > > > > I believe I have applied all the RedHat updates that there are. > > > > Searching the net I saw a fix that said I should set > > LANG=C > > export LANG > > at the end of /etc/profile.d/lang.sh, but this didn't help. > > This shouldn't be necessary. > > > It did remind me however of one fix that I did apply, which was to > > comment out the 1st line of /etc/sysconfig/i18n to fix the fonts when I > > run the man command: > > #LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" > > Did you replace that line with something else? no I didn't actually, but now I've read this, I tried LANG="en_GB" as you suggest and this fixes the man problem, so I don't need to comment out the line or use your alias. > LANG="en_GB" should work. The default value of "en_GB.UTF-8" should also > work. Simply create an alias for the man command to work around the UTF-8 > issue. I made mine in /etc/bashrc: > alias man='LANG="C" man' > > I've no idea if either of those will sort out the font issues, but it > should be a good place to start. well since I got no other replies. I guess I'll try anf figure out where the konsole font gets stored in a users setup and try and set that for all users . Thanks Michael, Ross > > - -- > - -Michael > > pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt > Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ > - -- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+Ancwn/07WoAb/SsRAqOQAKCsFV2HMF6k/I7VROabkplGc+UbVgCdEwaE > hTa4ypBORuYqZMww46rlbBw= > =/63r > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Ross Macintyre Heriot-Watt University raz@macs.hw.ac.uk -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
