Bug 256519 - Font settings reset after a reboot
Summary: Font settings reset after a reboot
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: kde
Classification: I don't know
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 4.5
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list
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Reported: 2010-11-10 15:17 UTC by foofyfoofer
Modified: 2013-01-09 23:29 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description foofyfoofer 2010-11-10 15:17:49 UTC 
Version:           4.5 (using KDE 4.5.3) 
OS:                Linux

Font settings reset after a reboot. It will not keep any custom settings that I choose once the computer is restarted.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open font settings (kcmshell4)
Change to desired settings
Hit apply, font is applied
Hit ok, screen closes.
Restart

Actual Results:  
While loading up the font is back to being small
Font settings are all smaller with the correct face chosen
If I bolded an item, it still says its bold but does not display bold
Settings such as antialiasing stay intact

Expected Results:  
It should have saved my settings and loaded them properly displaying the font sizes that I chose
Comment 1 lcn.mustard 2011-02-27 02:32:08 UTC 
I have the same problem after upgrade to maverick , with kde 4.5.1. In kubuntu lucid, with kde 4.5.3 I didn't had that problem. My system setting dont open windown to login as root to change login screen.
Comment 2 Joerg 2011-11-26 14:38:21 UTC 
I'm having the same problem under Kubuntu 11.10 with KDE 4.7.2.
Every other reboot my font settings are being reset. Sometimes my font settings survive a reboot, sometimes they don't. This is utterly annoying.

File permissions on ~/.fonts.conf are fine, btw.
Comment 3 Gabriel Jacobo 2011-12-30 01:46:28 UTC 
I'm also having this issue in Kubuntu 11.10 with KDE 4.7.2. ~/.fonts and ~/.fonts.conf permissions look fine, but after every reboot I get my font settings reset back to the Ubuntu font.
Comment 4 apache 2012-06-30 12:11:56 UTC 
I have the same issue on Kubuntu 12.04 and KDE 4.8.3. Not every time but occasionally after reboot fonts are reset to defaults.
Comment 5 apache 2012-06-30 12:26:07 UTC 
There is workaround but still the issue is very old and deserves a fix
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?56517-workaround-font-size-keeps-resetting
Comment 6 Dave Rove 2012-08-22 15:49:49 UTC 
In Kubuntu 12.04, I find that the fonts reset fairly regularly, but not every boot. So it's as mentioned by others here.
Comment 7 Prasad Murthy 2012-09-24 16:11:26 UTC 
Kubuntu 12.10 beta 1
Kde 4.9.1

I have checked the mentioned bug by
1. changing the font in the font settings dialog from oxygen to droid sans 
2. Changed the wallpaper 
3. restarted the system
4. Checked the font in the font settings dialog, the droid sans font remains set.

Hence I can confirm that this problem is not in kubuntu 12.10 beta 1 with kde 4.9.1
Comment 8 Christoph Feck 2013-01-09 23:29:10 UTC 
This was a (K)Ubuntu specific bug, which is apparently fixed in 12.10 (see comment #7).