Bug 36679

Summary:	Konsole problem with VGA Font
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	ashari
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.0.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description ashari 2002-01-01 03:00:45 UTC

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Package:           konsole
Version:           1.0.2 (using KDE 2.2.2 )
Severity:          normal
Installed from:    SuSE
Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.4.16-4GB
OS/Compiler notes: 

The web page at:
http://home.earthlink.net/~us5zahns/enl/ansifont.html
lists some VGA fonts that are used for "custom" Bash prompts.
I downloaded the standard "vga" font followed the instructions listed at the site and was able to get a nice looking VGA font going very quickly... but only in xterm and gnome-terminal. Konsole displays the text:
#konsole --font vga
QFont::setRawMode(): Invalid XLFD: "vga"
and defaults back to fixed.

If you want my .dircolors and .bashrc just let me know.. hopefully this is an easy fix.

Thanks
Steven


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Comment 1 Stephan Binner 2002-01-13 13:33:11 UTC

"--font" parameter is not respected by Konsole. Does it
work if you select the font with "Settings/Font/Custom..."?

Comment 2 ashari 2002-01-13 17:08:55 UTC

On Sun 2002-01-13 at 08:33 Stephan Binner wrote:
> "--font" parameter is not respected by Konsole. Does it
> work if you select the font with "Settings/Font/Custom..."?
> 

I only see the "misc-fixed" font in the "custom fonts" dialog.. is there
something that I'm not doing right? I have checked this dialog with
anti-aliased fonts turned on and off.

Thanks for any help
Steven

Comment 3 Stephan Binner 2002-01-15 20:04:24 UTC

I tried to install the font labelled "Kates" with the current development 
version of KDE/Konsole and succeeded. Note: This is no straight HOWTO :-)

 > QFont::setRawMode(): Invalid XLFD: "vga" 

Installed/ran xmbdfed File/Import/Server Font selected "Kates" Edit/Font
Name/Make XLFD Name replaced "Kates" description in fonts.dir with result
string. After KDE start it's selectable in Settings/Font/Custom as "Nexus".

Obviously there must be a way to save XLFD into pcf file. Didn't search it.