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Hi all,

I am using SuSE 8.1 with KDE 3.1 (and Qt 3.1.1), and just upgraded from XFree 4.2 to 4.3.
Everything seems to be working and im overall very satisfied with the latest XF release. However, there are certain fonts which give strange or even no visuals. For example, when i select certain fonts in kword/kedit/konsole(/...) they are invisible, or viewed as very long thin lines.
Fonts with problems include:

Charter
Clean
Clearlyu
Courier [Adobe]
Courier [Bitstream]
...
Helvetica [Adobe]
....
and much more...

Note that these fonts are all from the XFree 4.3 packages. XFree 4.2 fonts gave the same problems. I removed them and installed XF4.3 fonts again but no differences but less fonts.

I tried to do all the things SuSE said in their readme of this upgrade, but none seem to help. This includes: removal of old cache & doing font-config -f, using SaX2.
I also did some checking on ~/.qt/qtrc, used KDEfontmanager, and almost DoS'ed google on this.
Please note that i get no errors on any font/qt/xfree programs, except for the fact of the misdisplayed fonts in Qt.

I discovered that all GTK programs do display all fonts correct, only Qt programs dont and give the problems discribed above. Therefore i think the problems lies with XF&Qt.
I am using Qt 3.1.1 (SuSE), KDE3.1 (Official), and XFree 4.3.0 (SuSE). Any problems known with the combination of this software? Couldnt find anything on any of the corresponding websites.

My guess is a incompatibily between XFree 4.3's Xft module and Qt, i hope someone can help me or knows someting about this issue.

Thanks in advance,

Scythe

Hi all,

I actually found the solution for the font problems with Qt/KDE some ppl may already have experienced, after upgrading to Xfree86 4.3.0.

Like i thought yesterday, it really is something between Qt and XF4.3. More specificly, between Qt and Xft.

The clue is as following:

1: Follow every step from SuSE's (XF4.3) README, and be sure XF4.3 works fine beside the font problem described above.

2: Download xshared-4.2.0-187.i586.rpm from SuSE's ftp (or mirror).

3: Extract libXft.so.1.1 from the RPM (using Midnight Commander or rpm-get) and put the file at a safe place.

4: Backup all /usr/X11/lib/libXft* to a secure place, in case something horrible happens.

5: Copy and overwrite the XF4.3 Xft libs with the one from suse's 4.2 like this (after cd'ing to the dir where the extracted libXft.so.1.1 is):
su -c "cp libXft.so.1.1 /usr/X11/lib/libXft.so.2.1"
su -c "cp libXft.so.1.1 /usr/X11/lib/libXft.so.1.1"

5: When doing this in KDE, KDE will crash. This is no problem. Just restart the XServer, and start KDE, whether it will crash or not.

6: Have fun, and enjoy XFree86 4.3 ( with an old Xft library


Of course this method isnt ideal, but i guess this is the best thing until Qt or KDE has a resolution of it's own.

Greetings,

Scythe.