I can't figure this.
My fonts as user look great: the default Bitstream vera sans.
In root they are all ugly and shredded looking and I have the same fonts set as for user.
I tried running the fontsconfig thing in pkgtool,
This happened when I was palying around in KDE control center: default options don't get me back.
a lot of horsin around has got it better, but is there an easy way to straighten this.
Thanks

are the fonts anti-aliased?

Anti-aliasing doesn't have much effect.
An example is when I am in user mode and go to KDE control center, then log on as admin user: ugly fonts appear for root, but the settings are the same for both. weird.
How do you configure fonts in Slackware? Iv'e run the pkgtool also. Could this be an XF86config job?

Thanks

This sounds like a problem not with Slackware, but with KDE and paths, or possibly XFree86. How does it act under different wm's? Or is it like this under the text consoles outside of X? From what I'm understanding, it has to do within KDE. I could be totally off here, but what I'm thinking is that the proper path works for your user, but since it doesn't for root, maybe they're pointing to $/path/to/something instead of /usr/X11R6/blah or whatnot. How many different accounts do you have for the users group? If only 1, try making another one, and see how that one acts. If it acts like the other user, then maybe it's a setting for root's xf86config file, if it has a custom one. If it acts like the root behavior, I'd guess that you have a bad link.

Thanks a bunch.
I was suspecious of my XF86Config file. I replaced it and my fonts work now fine.
I think my problem came with swaret current packages or 3rd party repository.
I am more careful now.