Bug 89926

Summary: konsole doesn't remember font chosen, even when saving as default
Product: [Applications] konsole Reporter: Eric L. <ewl+kde>
Component: generalAssignee: Konsole Bugs <konsole-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 1.3.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Eric L. 2004-09-21 09:08:17 UTC 
Version:           1.3.2 (using KDE 3.2.3,  (testing/unstable))
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian 20040422)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.4.27-5deb1

Hi,

I choose a font in Settings->Font->Custom... (LucidaTypewriter but it doesn't seem to matter which one). Font is correctly modified.
Nevertheless if I go back to the same menu, not "Custom..." is selected, but "Unicode". That's rather cosmetic but perhaps link to the actual problem.
Then I select Settings->Save as Default and quit konsole.
When I restart konsole, my font selection has disappeared and I get the standard font (without all Unicode characters BTW). I couldn't find any way to save my font selection as default, hence I assume it's a bug.

~/.kde/share/config/konsolerc presents the two following lines (among others):

defaultfont=LucidaTypewriter,10,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
font=8

So, it looks like it's saved but ignored (I tried to set 'font' to 9 and 3, without effect). Starting konsole from another konsole, I couldn't find anything spurious in stdin/stderr.

Thanks, Eric

PS: I've found some similar bug reports, but they were all old 2.x reports and closed, so I created mine. Hope this is OK.
Comment 1 Kurt Hindenburg 2004-12-24 23:37:34 UTC 
Can you try a recent version of KDE?  3.4/CVS seems to work O.K. for me (ie picking LucidaTypewriter works).
% grep Font /home/kvh/.kdehome-cvs/share/config/konsolerc -i
defaultfont=LucidaTypewriter,14,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
font=8

Fonts->Custom is checked.
Comment 2 Eric L. 2005-01-03 15:58:45 UTC 
Hi,

sorry for not updating, I installed Debian freshly (on another computer) and the problem doesn't appear there, though it remains on the first computer. Hence I assume that something is screwed up; I'm happy for any hint but else you can close the bug.

Thanks and sorry for the noise,
Eric
Comment 3 bob p 2005-10-18 21:34:39 UTC 
Currently a problem with my upgrade from a perfectly functional KDE 3.3 to KDE 3.4.1 and Konsole 1.5.1.  The console font selection/save facility worked great in KDE 3.3 but is totally nonfunctional in KDE 3.4.

As a sidenote, the fonts appear to be limited in number in KDE 3.4.1.