Hello all,

Have any of you seen anything like this:



I think this has something to do with running qt4 apps in my kde 3.5 session--it always seems to happen when I open KeePassX or smplayer. After closing either of those apps, the fonts gradually clear up as I refresh window contents, etc etc. The fonts in Firefox's menu bar will corrupt, but the fonts in a web page will not. I've reinstalled the font (ttf-dejavu) and several libraries, just in case. Are there any other libraries or config options I need to check out? Thanks!

If you are still affected by this, you could try removing ~/.fonts.conf, ~/.config/Trolltech.conf. also try removing ~/.fontconfig.

If you are not, then could you please add [SOLVED] to the beginning of the thread subject? Thanks in advance.

bcooksley wrote:If you are still affected by this, you could try removing ~/.fonts.conf, ~/.config/Trolltech.conf. also try removing ~/.fontconfig.

If you are not, then could you please add [SOLVED] to the beginning of the thread subject? Thanks in advance.

bcooksley,

Thanks, this seems to have worked!

onesandzeros wrote:

bcooksley wrote:If you are still affected by this, you could try removing ~/.fonts.conf, ~/.config/Trolltech.conf. also try removing ~/.fontconfig.

If you are not, then could you please add [SOLVED] to the beginning of the thread subject? Thanks in advance.

bcooksley,

Thanks, this seems to have worked!

Deleting those files does not solve the problem for me. I still have garbled fonts in konsole (Misc Console, Misc Fixed, Misc Fixed Wide), and most important, in wine. I say most important because in console I can work around using Lucida Console, while in wine, I don't have a clue.

The same issue has been reported in those links:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/suse-l ... ssues.html

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/suse-l ... 1-1-a.html

http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-List ... 02166.html

The last link provides two screenshots of the problem:

http://users.telenet.be/tos4ever/downloads/wine1.jpg

http://users.telenet.be/tos4ever/downloads/wine2.png

I am currently lost.

mroberto: You may need to logout and log back in for removing those files to have any effect. Try removing anything font related in your $HOME. ( ~/.font* )

bcooksley wrote:mroberto: You may need to logout and log back in for removing those files to have any effect. Try removing anything font related in your $HOME. ( ~/.font* )

I did this already. In fact, in paranoia mode I did all the deletes in a linux console and only after that I did login. And still get the font rendering problem.

mroberto: Is a new user affected?

Yes, it does affect new users.

I should mention I am using KDE 3.5. KDE 4 is not affected by this bug here.

mroberto: Your system wide configuration may need to be updated, or KDE 3 and KDE 4 are using different font rendering settings ( Anti-Aliasing, Sub pixel rendering, etc. )

You will need to ask your distribution how to rebuild the Font database.

bcooksley wrote:mroberto: Your system wide configuration may need to be updated, or KDE 3 and KDE 4 are using different font rendering settings ( Anti-Aliasing, Sub pixel rendering, etc. )

You will need to ask your distribution how to rebuild the Font database.

I am using OpenSUSE 11.1. It seems very strange that only a few of the fonts are affected by this garbage. Do you know how to do that for OpenSUSE?

One fact: it worked when I did the upgrade at first from OpenSUSE 10.2 to 11.1. Then later I did a software upgrade using Yast and this problem started to happen.

The list of garbled fonts in my system, as seen from the Konsole font selection window, is:

Adobe Courier
B&H Lucida Typewriter
Bitstream Terminal
DEC Terminal
ETL Fixed
Efont Fixed
Ets Caption
Ets Teletext
Ets Teletext Wide
Led Fixed
Misc Console
Misc Fixed
Misc Fixed Wide
Schumacher Clean
Sony Fixed

I don't know if this list gives a clue, maybe they have something in common.

Best regards!

If this problem started when you performed a update through YaST ( assuming it was an official update ) then you should ask on their forums if anyone else has this problem.They will probably be able to tell you how to regenerate the font configuration as well.

I do not know how to regenerate the font configuration.

bcooksley wrote:If this problem started when you performed a update through YaST ( assuming it was an official update ) then you should ask on their forums if anyone else has this problem.They will probably be able to tell you how to regenerate the font configuration as well.

I do not know how to regenerate the font configuration.

Ok, thank you, I will do that. If I find the solution, I will post it here.

Well, I have finally figured it out. It is a problem with the nVidia driver:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122178

Here I have

# /sbin/lspci | grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a4)

The solution was:
# rpm -e x11-video-nvidia nvidia-gfx-kmp-default



Looking forward to the next nVidia driver...

It is funny, because KDE4 does not suffer from that.

Probably because the YaST control center is still based upon Qt3....