Version: (using KDE KDE 3.1) Installed from: Mandrake RPMs OS: Linux After installing some truetype fonts, KDE no longer has the 100dpi/75dpi fonts available to it. xfontsel still shows them, but KDE control panel does not. This is a problem because I find antialiased fonts are blurry/out of focus/cause eye-strain, and would prefer non-antialiased. But all the truetype fonts are designed for antialiasing, and look dreadful without it. However, the 100dpi fonts are intended for use without antialiasing, and look quite good that way. It's possible that this is a feature; if so, I think it's a bad one. Some people don't like antialiasing! There's more on what I did at http://www.richard.neill.hemscott.net/a22p-mdk9-1.html#fonts In my view: 1) Best: Antialiasing OFF, using 100dpi fonts => quite smooth, very crisp But impossible in KDE 3.1 unless all truetype fonts are removed from the system! 2)Tolerable: Antialiasing ON, set up optimally, using truetype fonts. 3)Worst: Antialiasing OFF, using truetype fonts.
Are you using FontConfig? If so, please run: fc-cache -v |grep 100dpi -- JRT
You asked about Fontconfig - no, I'm not explicity using it (as in running fontconfig-config from the command-line). I just started with a default KDE installation, and used the KDE control centre font tool to add some more MS-Windows TTF fonts. The output of fc-cache -v | grep 100dpi is null, whether I run it as root or not. Here's what I get from fc-cache -v run as root: # fc-cache -v fc-cache: "/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/": caching, 39 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/type1/greek/": skipping, 14 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western/": skipping, 9 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives/": skipping, 30 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/": skipping, 35 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/": caching, 158 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/": skipping, 85 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: succeeded Please let me know if there's anything else you'd like me to try. Regards Richard
KDE 3.1.2 This has the same cause which is the improper editing of the: /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file by KFontInst. -- JRT *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55617 ***