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XFree 4.3 + Font problems

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Monday, March 3rd 2003, 11:55pm

XFree 4.3 + Font problems

Hi all,

I am using SuSE 8.1 and just upgraded to XFree86 4.3, using SuSE RPMS ( doing exactly what the suse readme says). Everything works great, and i'm overall very satisfied.
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. Tried the KDE fontinstaller, tried to do some fonts-config -f, while playing with some XF86Config options like adding or removing the " :unscaled" after a fontpath.
Does anyone have the same problem? Here is a list of the fonts that are giving me trouble (some typo's but you'll get the picture):

Charter
Clean
Clearlyu
Courier [Adobe]
Courier [Bitstream]
Courier [Cronyx[
Fixed [Cronyx[
Fixed pEfont]
Fixed [Etl]
Fixed [Jis]
Fixed [misc]
Fixed [Sony]
Helvetica [Adobe]
Helv.. [Cronyx]
Lucida
Lucidabright
Lucidatypewriter+
New Century Schoolbook
Terminal [Bitstream]
Terminal [Dec]
Times [Adobe]
Times [Cronyx]
Urw Grotesk t
Utopia

I hope someone can help me or at least give me a direction where to look.

Thanks in advance,

Scythe

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Tuesday, March 4th 2003, 5:55am

Found this.....

in the SuSE XFree86 ReadMe file (hope it helps):

4) Known Problems
-----------------

- Some people complain that the keys "<", ">" and "|" no longer work
after the update. Please verify that "pc105" (and not "pc104") is
specified in the config file "/etc/X11/XF86Config" if you own a
pc105 keyboard (german keyboards and maybe also others).

- Fonts look ugly. Use 'fonts-config -f' to recreate font cache files
for Xft/Xft2. See also manual page for fonts-config. fonts-config
is included in new xf86tools package.

- fonts-config resp. fc-cache hangs. Please use the following
workaround for now to fix it:

rm -f /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.cache-1.gz
rm -f /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/fonts.cache-1.gz
rm -f /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/fonts.cache-1.gz
rm -f /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/fonts.cache-1.gz
rm -f /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/fonts.cache-1.gz

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Tuesday, March 4th 2003, 1:55pm

Tnx for the advise.
However, this doesnt seem to be the problem. Another discovery i made was that all GTK programs _do_ display all fonts correct, only Qt programs _dont_ and give the problems discribed above.
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. I will also post this a new thread, since i think this is getting offtopic.

Thanks in advance,

Scythe