Fonts Disappearing From Kde 4 ???

Yoda3114 · 05-21-2008, 09:05 PM

I'm running kubuntu 8.04 with kde4 on a laptop with 2 GB Ram and 120 GB HDD. I've tried every way possible to install fonts and every time I log out these fonts disappear

I have no idea what is going on and any help from the linux Gurus here is greatly appreciated.

wget · 05-22-2008, 07:40 AM

I'm not great on the subject but the way I did it, I had a load of windows fonts, moved them to /usr/share/fonts/windowsfonts

ran as root mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/windowsfonts

added the path /usr/share/fonts/windowsfonts to my xorg.conf font paths

added the fonts for the all users using kde4 font manager

Yoda3114 · 05-22-2008, 07:12 PM

I did what you said but it caused some errors (I guess xserver related) and I couldn't get kde4's gui to start. Can you post your xorg.conf so I can see what you mean b/c I don't know where to put the path to the fonts.

wget · 05-23-2008, 12:00 AM

This is the only bit of my xorg.conf that contains any font relevant information, of course your paths to things will probably be different

Code:

Section "Files"

# The location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.

#    RgbPath	"/usr/share/X11/rgb"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
# 
# 

    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/OTF/"
    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/windows_fonts/"
# The module search path.  The default path is shown here.

    ModulePath "/usr/lib/X11/modules"

EndSection