Every so often the fonts in KDE go awry and display like -

v i e w

ie with what would appear to be a space between each character. Very annoying.

The only way I've managed to get back to normality has been to delete .kde from each of the users directory so that KDE effectively resets itself up for that user.

The last thing(s) I did prior to the problem occuring was to install the following -


-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1892375 2004-06-14 20:48 zsh-4.2.0-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3929126 2004-06-14 20:46 xvim-6.2.532-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6021306 2004-06-14 20:41 xscreensaver-4.16-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1675136 2004-06-14 20:39 xsane-0.93-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1921740 2004-06-14 20:37 xpdf-3.00-i486-2.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2036740 2004-06-14 20:36 xmms-1.2.10-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1017714 2004-06-14 20:35 xlockmore-5.11.1-i486-2.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1505159 2004-06-14 20:34 xfsprogs-2.6.13-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 319837 2004-06-14 20:32 wv2-0.2.2-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 695251 2004-06-14 20:31 vte-0.11.11-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 423325 2004-06-14 20:30 wget-1.9.1-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3777962 2004-06-14 20:29 vim-6.2.532-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1759479 2004-06-14 20:25 util-linux-2.12a-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 84212 2004-06-14 20:24 usbutils-0.11-i486-2.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1859917 2004-06-14 20:23 tk-8.4.6-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 874295 2004-06-14 20:21 texinfo-4.7-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 276849 2004-06-14 20:21 tcsh-6.13.00-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 832955 2004-06-14 20:20 tcpip-0.17-i486-26.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 397368 2004-06-14 20:18 tcpdump-3.8.3-i486-2.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2024519 2004-06-14 20:17 tcl-8.4.6-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 108473 2004-06-14 20:15 syslinux-2.09-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 111205 2004-06-14 20:14 stunnel-4.05-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82036 2004-06-14 20:13 strace-4.5.2-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38313 2004-06-14 20:12 startup-notification-0.6-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 187451 2004-06-14 20:12 smartmontools-5.30-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25186 2004-06-14 20:11 slocate-2.7-i486-3.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 800265 2004-06-14 20:10 shadow-4.0.3-i486-10.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5171899 2004-06-14 20:08 sgml-tools-1.0.9-i486-12.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 261279 2004-06-14 20:06 sendmail-cf-8.12.11-noarch-3.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1259039 2004-06-14 20:05 sendmail-8.12.11-i486-2.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 161428 2004-06-14 20:04 sed-4.0.9-i486-2.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 663609 2004-06-14 18:19 sdl-1.2.7-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 553754 2004-06-14 18:17 scrollkeeper-0.3.14-i486-1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 567842 2004-06-14 18:16 screen-4.0.2-i486-1.tgz

None of the descriptions for these packages would seem to indicate that it would cause this problem. I've raised this thread in Mozilla for a session with the strange font. The font in Mozilla seems OK.

Any suggestions?

AK