WARNING: This is a simplistic fix to a deeper problem that I _really_ don't
want to solve as I HATE dealing with font issues. Having said this, it
should put you guys on the right track.
The problem with fonts seems to be that in QT 2.3 you need to have a
XftConfig file to define your font mappings for QT --> X11.
To fix todays cooker to make it somewhat usable, do the following:
* Go to http://keithp.com/~keithp/fonts/ and get truetype.tar.gz and
XftConfig
* untar the truetype.tar.gz into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype
* put the XftConfig file into /etc/X11
* edit it to make sure it's pointing to the new fonts (has a dir set to
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype)
* restart X
Problem with this is that you lose all your drakfonts (windows fonts you've
added through DrakFont) and the mapping seem pretty bad for some things
(konsole), BUT it does give you a working framework to make things much
better and hopefully enumerate what the basic problem seems to be.
PLEASE someone who can deal with fonts take a look at this. Just doing this
much with fonts has caused me to start drinking heavily and banging my head
on the wall =)
-Rob
