Font problem

I use suse 11.0 with kde 4.1.3 I don’t know how it happened but all
fonts in suse have become small, some appear italic and unreadable and
ugly. Changing font options from personal settings does not have any
effect. Also when everything was normal and default fonts were present,
still my firefox fonts were ugly that time. I really love windows fonts.
Can anyone help me here? This has started to get really annoying.:frowning:


akya

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Sorry to hear that after all this time KDE4.x still manages to daily
invent original new ways of screwing up our computers… I hope someone
who actually uses it can help you out…


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Exactly, when I solve one problem that I have, 2 more come up… still I
will not give up. Hope someone here can help me out.


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It appears that when I tried to install windows fonts (Just created a
folder in usr/share/fonts/ then copied fonts there.)and when I selected
them through personal settings, my default san serif appears to be
broken.(It remains italic in both italic and general settings). From
where I can download or restore suse 11 default san serif?


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bump bump :(:frowning:


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I am did not use KDE… so this is not an primary answer at your
question…

I have some experiments vs fonts… I was need custom font in my
work… so I found that most likely (for me) place to have local fonts
is

~./fonts

The best application to customise fonts is - fontmatrix…

I am sure KDE have some settings… in some local directory as .kde

$HOME/.kde

I am not making so… but maybe this can fix… you should log in other
WM or in terminal…

init 3 #should help

>cd $HOME
mv .kde .kde.old

init 5

#if something goes wrong move your kde dir back vs

>mv .kde.old .kde

hope this will be helpfull


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moving .kde did not help.:frowning: Thanks for your reply though


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Does any one know how to restore? Please fonts appear weird and hard to
read. I guess I have to reinstall :(:frowning:


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Maybe you can try to reinstall these packages:
fonts
xorg-x11-fonts
liberation-fonts

Just do
$sudo zypper install -f fonts xorg-x11-fonts liberation-fonts
in a console


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Follow procedures here for optimising fonts.

‘Optimal Use of MS TrueType Core Fonts for a KDE Desktop on SuSE -
openSUSE’ (http://en.opensuse.org/Optimal_Use_of_Fonts_on_SuSE)


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I changed most of the font settings to verdana and tahoma. Now icon text
start menu text appears ok. The main problem is that the default
applications with root permissions such as konqueror in super user mode,
Yast, menubar text in amarok etc. always uses default sans serif which
is broken in my suse. (It always appears italic no matter what the
setting is)
Is there any way to remove my current sans serif and then install
default sans serif of suse again? :’(:’(


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akya;1904539 Wrote:
> I changed most of the font settings to verdana and tahoma. Now icon text
> start menu text appears ok. The main problem is that the default
> applications with root permissions such as konqueror in super user mode,
> Yast, menubar text in amarok etc. always uses default sans serif which
> is broken in my suse. (It always appears italic no matter what the
> setting is)
> Is there any way to remove my current sans serif and then install
> default sans serif of suse again? :’(:’(

Log into your root account and set the font styles to the same as your
user account.

Also did you follow the procedure for setting of GTK2 app’s running in
KDE?


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I logged into root account and changed font settings to match my current
settings. It solved my konqueror in sudo mode font problem :slight_smile:
Then I did as exactly told in that article. Installed that
control-center etc. and changed my fonts for gnome apps to the current
set I am using. Still menu bar in kaffeine, amarok is still in that
broken sans serif. Also all icon text in yast is also broken…:frowning:
Thanks for your reply though. What I can do now??:expressionless:


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Here is my font.conf located in /etc/fonts

> <?xml version=“1.0”?>
> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM “fonts.dtd”>
> <!-- /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file to configure system font access →
> <fontconfig>
>
> <!–
> DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE.
> IT WILL BE REPLACED WHEN FONTCONFIG IS UPDATED.
> LOCAL CHANGES BELONG IN ‘local.conf’.
>
> The intent of this standard configuration file is to be adequate for
> most environments. If you have a reasonably normal environment and
> have found problems with this configuration, they are probably
> things that others will also want fixed. Please submit any
> problems to the fontconfig bugzilla system located at fontconfig.org
>
> Note that the normal ‘make install’ procedure for fontconfig is to
> replace any existing fonts.conf file with the new version. Place
> any local customizations in local.conf which this file references.
>
> Keith Packard
> →
>
> <!-- Font directory list →
>
> <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir> <dir>/opt/kde3/share/fonts</dir>
> <dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir>
> <dir>~/.fonts</dir>
>
> <!-- Font cache directory list →
>
> <cachedir>/var/cache/fontconfig</cachedir>
> <cachedir>~/.fontconfig</cachedir>
>
> <!–
> Accept deprecated ‘mono’ alias, replacing it with ‘monospace’
> →
> <match target=“pattern”>
> <test qual=“any” name=“family”>
> <string>mono</string>
> </test>
> <edit name=“family” mode=“assign”>
> <string>monospace</string>
> </edit>
> </match>
>
> <!–
> Accept alternate ‘sans serif’ spelling, replacing it with
> ‘sans-serif’
> →
> <match target=“pattern”>
> <test qual=“any” name=“family”>
> <string>sans serif</string>
> </test>
> <edit name=“family” mode=“assign”>
> <string>sans-serif</string>
> </edit>
> </match>
>
> <!–
> Accept deprecated ‘sans’ alias, replacing it with ‘sans-serif’
> →
> <match target=“pattern”>
> <test qual=“any” name=“family”>
> <string>sans</string>
> </test>
> <edit name=“family” mode=“assign”>
> <string>sans-serif</string>
> </edit>
> </match>
>
> <!–
> Load local system customization file
> →
> <include ignore_missing=“yes”>conf.d</include>
>
> <config>
> <!–
> These are the default Unicode chars that are expected to be blank
> in fonts. All other blank chars are assumed to be broken and
> won’t appear in the resulting charsets
> →
> <blank>
> <int>0x0020</int> <!-- SPACE →
> <int>0x00A0</int> <!-- NO-BREAK SPACE →
> <int>0x00AD</int> <!-- SOFT HYPHEN →
> <int>0x034F</int> <!-- COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER →
> <int>0x0600</int> <!-- ARABIC NUMBER SIGN →
> <int>0x0601</int> <!-- ARABIC SIGN SANAH →
> <int>0x0602</int> <!-- ARABIC FOOTNOTE MARKER →
> <int>0x0603</int> <!-- ARABIC SIGN SAFHA →
> <int>0x06DD</int> <!-- ARABIC END OF AYAH →
> <int>0x070F</int> <!-- SYRIAC ABBREVIATION MARK →
> <int>0x115F</int> <!-- HANGUL CHOSEONG FILLER →
> <int>0x1160</int> <!-- HANGUL JUNGSEONG FILLER →
> <int>0x1680</int> <!-- OGHAM SPACE MARK →
> <int>0x17B4</int> <!-- KHMER VOWEL INHERENT AQ →
> <int>0x17B5</int> <!-- KHMER VOWEL INHERENT AA →
> <int>0x180E</int> <!-- MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR →
> <int>0x2000</int> <!-- EN QUAD →
> <int>0x2001</int> <!-- EM QUAD →
> <int>0x2002</int> <!-- EN SPACE →
> <int>0x2003</int> <!-- EM SPACE →
> <int>0x2004</int> <!-- THREE-PER-EM SPACE →
> <int>0x2005</int> <!-- FOUR-PER-EM SPACE →
> <int>0x2006</int> <!-- SIX-PER-EM SPACE →
> <int>0x2007</int> <!-- FIGURE SPACE →
> <int>0x2008</int> <!-- PUNCTUATION SPACE →
> <int>0x2009</int> <!-- THIN SPACE →
> <int>0x200A</int> <!-- HAIR SPACE →
> <int>0x200B</int> <!-- ZERO WIDTH SPACE →
> <int>0x200C</int> <!-- ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER →
> <int>0x200D</int> <!-- ZERO WIDTH JOINER →
> <int>0x200E</int> <!-- LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK →
> <int>0x200F</int> <!-- RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK →
> <int>0x2028</int> <!-- LINE SEPARATOR →
> <int>0x2029</int> <!-- PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR →
> <int>0x202A</int> <!-- LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING →
> <int>0x202B</int> <!-- RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING →
> <int>0x202C</int> <!-- POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING →
> <int>0x202D</int> <!-- LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE →
> <int>0x202E</int> <!-- RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE →
> <int>0x202F</int> <!-- NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE →
> <int>0x205F</int> <!-- MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE →
> <int>0x2060</int> <!-- WORD JOINER →
> <int>0x2061</int> <!-- FUNCTION APPLICATION →
> <int>0x2062</int> <!-- INVISIBLE TIMES →
> <int>0x2063</int> <!-- INVISIBLE SEPARATOR →
> <int>0x206A</int> <!-- INHIBIT SYMMETRIC SWAPPING →
> <int>0x206B</int> <!-- ACTIVATE SYMMETRIC SWAPPING →
> <int>0x206C</int> <!-- INHIBIT ARABIC FORM SHAPING →
> <int>0x206D</int> <!-- ACTIVATE ARABIC FORM SHAPING →
> <int>0x206E</int> <!-- NATIONAL DIGIT SHAPES →
> <int>0x206F</int> <!-- NOMINAL DIGIT SHAPES →
> <int>0x3000</int> <!-- IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE →
> <int>0x3164</int> <!-- HANGUL FILLER →
> <int>0xFEFF</int> <!-- ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE →
> <int>0xFFA0</int> <!-- HALFWIDTH HANGUL FILLER →
> <int>0xFFF9</int> <!-- INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION ANCHOR →
> <int>0xFFFA</int> <!-- INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION SEPARATOR →
> <int>0xFFFB</int> <!-- INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION TERMINATOR →
> </blank>
> <!–
> Rescan configuration every 30 seconds when FcFontSetList is called
> →
> <rescan>
> <int>30</int>
> </rescan>
> </config>
>
> </fontconfig>

Is there anything wrong in here??


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Here is my fonts.dtd

Code:

<!-- This is the Document Type Definition for font configuration files →
<!ELEMENT fontconfig (dir |
cache |
cachedir |
include |
config |
selectfont |
match |
alias)* >

<!–
Add a directory that provides fonts

<!ELEMENT dir (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST dir xml:space (default|preserve) ‘preserve’>

<!–
Define the per-user file that holds cache font information.

If the filename begins with ‘~’, it is replaced with the users
home directory path.

<!ELEMENT cache (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST cache xml:space (default|preserve) ‘preserve’>

<!–
Add a directory that is searched for font cache files.
These hold per-directory cache data and are searched in
order for each directory. When writing cache files, the first
directory which allows the cache file to be created is used.

A leading ‘~’ in a directory name is replaced with the users
home directory path.

<!ELEMENT cachedir (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST cachedir xml:space (default|preserve) ‘preserve’>

<!–
Reference another configuration file; note that this
is another complete font configuration file and not
just a file included by the XML parser.

Set ‘ignore_missing’ to ‘yes’ if errors are to be ignored.

If the filename begins with ‘~’, it is replaced with the users
home directory path.

<!ELEMENT include (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST include
ignore_missing (no|yes) “no”
xml:space (default|preserve) “preserve”>

<!–
Global library configuration data

<!ELEMENT config (blank|rescan)*>

<!–
Specify the set of Unicode encoding values which
represent glyphs that are allowed to contain no
data. With this list, fontconfig can examine
fonts for broken glyphs and eliminate them from
the set of valid Unicode chars. This idea
was borrowed from Mozilla

<!ELEMENT blank (int)*>

<!–
Aliases are just a special case for multiple match elements

They are syntactically equivalent to:

<match>
<test name=“family”>
<string value=[family]/>
</test>
<edit name=“family” mode=“prepend”>
<string value=[prefer]/>

</edit>
<edit name=“family” mode=“append”>
<string value=[accept]/>

</edit>
<edit name=“family” mode=“append_last”>
<string value=[default]/>

</edit>
</match>

<!–
Periodically rescan the font configuration and
directories to synch internal state with filesystem

<!ELEMENT rescan (int)>

<!–
Edit list of available fonts at startup/reload time

<!ELEMENT selectfont (rejectfont | acceptfont)* >

<!ELEMENT rejectfont (glob | pattern)*>

<!ELEMENT acceptfont (glob | pattern)*>

<!ELEMENT glob (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT pattern (patelt)*>

<!ENTITY % constant ‘int|double|string|matrix|bool|charset|const’>

<!ELEMENT patelt (%constant;)*>
<!ATTLIST patelt
name CDATA #REQUIRED>

<!ELEMENT alias (family*, prefer?, accept?, default?)>
<!ELEMENT prefer (family)>
<!ELEMENT accept (family)
>
<!ELEMENT default (family)*>
<!ELEMENT family (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST family xml:space (default|preserve) ‘preserve’>

<!ENTITY % expr ‘int|double|string|matrix|bool|charset
|name|const
|or|and|eq|not_eq|less|less_eq|more|more_eq|contains|not_contains
|plus|minus|times|divide|not|if|floor|ceil|round|trunc’>

<!–
Match and edit patterns.

If ‘target’ is ‘pattern’, execute the match before selecting a font.
if ‘target’ is ‘font’, execute the match on the result of a font
selection.

<!ELEMENT match (test*, edit*)>
<!ATTLIST match
target (pattern|font|scan) “pattern”>

<!–
Match a field in a pattern

if ‘qual’ is ‘any’, then the match succeeds if any value in the field matches.
if ‘qual’ is ‘all’, then the match succeeds only if all values match.
if ‘qual’ is ‘first’, then the match succeeds only if the first value matches.
if ‘qual’ is ‘not_first’, then the match succeeds only if any value other than
the first matches.
For match elements with target=font, if test ‘target’ is ‘pattern’,
then the test is applied to the pattern used in matching rather than
to the resulting font.

Match elements with target=scan are applied as fonts are scanned.
They edit the pattern generated from the scanned font and affect
what the fontconfig database contains.

<!ELEMENT test (%expr;)*>
<!ATTLIST test
qual (any|all|first|not_first) “any”
name CDATA #REQUIRED
target (pattern|font|default) “default”
compare (eq|not_eq|less|less_eq|more|more_eq|contains|not_contains) “eq”>

<!–
Edit a field in a pattern

The enclosed values are used together to edit the list of values
associated with ‘name’.

If ‘name’ matches one of those used in a test element for this match element:
if ‘mode’ is ‘assign’, replace the matched value.
if ‘mode’ is ‘assign_replace’, replace all of the values
if ‘mode’ is ‘prepend’, insert before the matched value
if ‘mode’ is ‘append’, insert after the matched value
if ‘mode’ is ‘prepend_first’, insert before all of the values
if ‘mode’ is ‘append_last’, insert after all of the values
If ‘name’ doesn’t match any of those used in a test element:
if ‘mode’ is ‘assign’ or 'assign_replace, replace all of the values
if ‘mode’ is ‘prepend’ or ‘prepend_first’, insert before all of the values
if ‘mode’ is ‘append’ or ‘append_last’, insert after all of the values

<!ELEMENT edit (%expr;)*>
<!ATTLIST edit
name CDATA #REQUIRED
mode (assign|assign_replace|prepend|append|prepend_first|append_last) “assign”
binding (weak|strong|same) “weak”>

<!–
Elements of expressions follow

<!ELEMENT int (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST int xml:space (default|preserve) ‘preserve’>
<!ELEMENT double (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST double xml:space (default|preserve) ‘preserve’>
<!ELEMENT string (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST string xml:space (default|preserve) ‘preserve’>
<!ELEMENT matrix (double,double,double,double)>
<!ELEMENT bool (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT charset (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST charset xml:space (default|preserve) ‘preserve’>
<!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST name xml:space (default|preserve) ‘preserve’>
<!ELEMENT const (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST const xml:space (default|preserve) ‘preserve’>
<!ELEMENT or (%expr;)>
<!ELEMENT and (%expr;)
>
<!ELEMENT eq ((%expr;), (%expr;))>
<!ELEMENT not_eq ((%expr;), (%expr;))>
<!ELEMENT less ((%expr;), (%expr;))>
<!ELEMENT less_eq ((%expr;), (%expr;))>
<!ELEMENT more ((%expr;), (%expr;))>
<!ELEMENT more_eq ((%expr;), (%expr;))>
<!ELEMENT contains ((%expr;), (%expr;))>
<!ELEMENT not_contains ((%expr;), (%expr;))>
<!ELEMENT plus (%expr;)>
<!ELEMENT minus (%expr;)
>
<!ELEMENT times (%expr;)>
<!ELEMENT divide (%expr;)
>
<!ELEMENT not (%expr;)>
<!ELEMENT if ((%expr;), (%expr;), (%expr;))>
<!ELEMENT floor (%expr;)>
<!ELEMENT ceil (%expr;)>
<!ELEMENT round (%expr;)>
<!ELEMENT trunc (%expr;)>

Is there anything wrong in here??


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Hi
You probably just need to run fonts-config and fc-cache. Have a look at
the man pages, fonts-config needs to be runs with sudo.


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Sorry, can you please give me in detail what I should do and how? I am a
beginner.


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Hi
Many commands have man(ual) pages so you can see what it does etc. In
this case to view the man pages;


man fonts-config
and
man fc-cache

I suggest running the config and rebuild the cache is if you add
fonts this is a good idea :slight_smile: As fonts-config is part of the SuSEconfig
run when you install rpms it needs to run as root user, you could use
either commands, just the fonts one will do just that.


/usr/sbin/fonts-config
or
sudo /sbin/SuSEconfig

The fc-cache program will work for your user.


fc-cache


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akya;1905058 Wrote:
> Sorry, can you please give me in detail what I should do and how? I am a
> beginner.

Go to KDE Control Center->“Appearance & Themes”->“GTK Styles and
Fonts”, and change fonts here.

Alternatively,

Set the fonts in your application.

In Amarok click on Settings > Configure Amarok > Appearance . Check the
use custom fonts check box and select an alternative font.


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I have done that already. It does not change menubar text appearance.


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