Re: [Fonts]Fontconfig + patched qt-3.0.5 doesn't allow bitmap fixed font

[Owen Taylor]

Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Yesterday I installed the XFt-2 enabled QT. Now running konsole (the kde 
> terminal application) It started out with very wide characters (from arial) 
> This is caused by the fact that the font selection mechanism refuses to match 
> the -misc-fixed-medium-r-* bitmapped font. I've tried out several 
> configurations but none helped (except aliassing to a monospaced font, not 
> arial).
> 
> I'll attach a log from starting konsole, and my font.conf file.

Basically Konsole is looking for a font that isn't there so it
falls back to the default. The only thing to do about this is
to patch the hardcoded default fonts.

The attached is a patch from the Red Hat 8 KDE packages to do
this. (I'm not sure if it's the final version or not -- it's
just what was sitting in my patches directory.) It uses
'monospace' - the standard fontconfig name for the default
monospace font - instead of 'fixed'

For your own use, you can also just select a different font 
with the font selector in Konsole, of course.


Regards,
                                        Owen


--- kdebase-3.0.3/konsole/konsole/konsole.cpp.fontkonsole	2002-08-11 11:30:03.000000000 +0200
+++ kdebase-3.0.3/konsole/konsole/konsole.cpp	2002-08-11 11:30:03.000000000 +0200
@@ -152,8 +152,6 @@
  "13",  // medium
  "15",  // large
  "20", // huge
- "-misc-console-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-160-iso10646-1", // "Linux"
- "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1",    // "Unicode"
  };
 #define TOPFONT (sizeof(fonts)/sizeof(char*))
 #define DEFAULTFONT TOPFONT
@@ -494,9 +492,6 @@
       << i18n("&Large")
       << i18n("&Huge")
       << ""
-      << i18n("L&inux")
-      << i18n("&Unicode")
-      << ""
       << i18n("&Custom...");
    selectFont->setItems(it);
    selectFont->plug(m_options);
@@ -862,7 +857,7 @@
 
       // Options that should be applied to all sessions /////////////
       // (1) set menu items and Konsole members
-      QFont tmpFont("fixed");
+      QFont tmpFont("Monospace");
       defaultFont = config->readFontEntry("defaultfont", &tmpFont);
       setFont(QMIN(config->readUnsignedNumEntry("font",3),TOPFONT));
 
@@ -1083,7 +1078,7 @@
   }
   else
   {
-    f.setFamily("fixed");
+    f.setFamily("Monospace");
     f.setFixedPitch(true);
     f.setPixelSize(QString(fonts[fontno]).toInt());
   }
--- kdebase-3.0.3/konsole/konsole/konsole_part.cpp.fontkonsole	2002-08-05 16:56:24.000000000 +0200
+++ kdebase-3.0.3/konsole/konsole/konsole_part.cpp	2002-08-11 11:40:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -130,8 +130,6 @@
  "13",  // medium
  "15",  // large
  "20", // huge
- "-misc-console-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-160-iso10646-1", // "Linux"
- "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1",    // "Unicode"
  };
 
 #define TOPFONT (sizeof(fonts)/sizeof(char*))
@@ -331,9 +329,6 @@
      << i18n("&Large")
      << i18n("&Huge")
      << ""
-     << i18n("&Linux")
-     << i18n("&Unicode")
-     << ""
      << i18n("&Custom...");
   selectFont->setItems(it);
   selectFont->plug(m_options);
@@ -449,7 +444,7 @@
   m_histSize = config->readNumEntry("history",DEFAULT_HISTORY_SIZE);
   s_word_seps= config->readEntry("wordseps",":@-./_~");
 
-  QFont tmpFont("fixed");
+  QFont tmpFont("Monospace");
   defaultFont = config->readFontEntry("defaultfont", &tmpFont);
   setFont(QMIN(config->readUnsignedNumEntry("font",3),TOPFONT));
 
@@ -575,7 +570,7 @@
   }
   else
   {
-    f.setFamily("fixed");
+    f.setFamily("Monospace");
     f.setFixedPitch(true);
     f.setPixelSize(QString(fonts[fontno]).toInt());
   }