On Tuesday 31 October 2000 02:59, Khawar Zia wrote:
|  hey,
|  Thanks dude. That fixed my problem.
|  --Khawar Zia

Dear Mandrake Packagers,
(Xfree86, DrakFont, TTF-,Type1-Font packager)

May I consider putting in your distribution font list for XFS server as 
listed below?
I believe it affects much more people then complained now.
Many people just wonder "why default fonts are so bad"

|
|  > On Monday 30 October 2000 01:40, Khawar Zia wrote:
|  > |  I currently have LM72 final. The fonts for all the things somehow
|  > | have changed to 48 or something. THey are so big that they go of off
|  > | the screen. Also as soon as i click on "K" the menu tries to launch
|  > | but
|
|  crashes
|
|  > | and gives me a crash reporting dialog. KDE is totally useless right
|  > | now.
|  >
|  > What fonts do you have installed?
|  > I reinstalled KDE2 from sources,and all Win98-based TrueType fonts
|  > disappearted. Well, not from disk, but from KDE2/XWindows
|  >
|  > Go to
|  > file:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs
|  > open "config" file
|  >
|  > you will see probably something like this:
|  > -----------------------------
|  > catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
|  > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
|  > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
|  > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
|  > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
|  > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk:unscaled
|  > -----------------------------
|  >
|  > Correct one:
|  > -----------------------------
|  > catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont,
|  > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
|  > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
|  > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
|  > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
|  > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
|  > /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western,
|  > /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1,
|  > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk
|  > -----------------------------
|  > Of course, you will have fonts from Win98 in
|  > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont
|  > only if you run DrakFont before
|  >
|  > Hope this helps.
|  >
|  > As about bug report I suggest you send it to Bugs Submit
|  > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, so developers will take care about it.
|  > IMHO. K menu should not crash even with wrong size of default font .
-- 

Vadim Plessky
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