On Thursday 30 January 2003 02:24, Spider wrote: > > I've had the problem too, and it was mighty annoying (( > http://gentoo.org/~spider/KDE.is.broken.jpg )) > > figuring out what the problem was came first, ldd of some kde binaries > show that they link to the freetype that lingers in /usr/X11R6..... > instead of /usr/lib/libfreetype , This breaks the fonts quite badly. > > I spent days rebuilding KDE (til no avail) after I found this out. I > hacked arts, found the first parts of the Makefiel to link it, (qt links > okay, KDE doesnt) ... Nothing helped. > > I rebuilt KDE as binaries on another system, checked with ldd that they > were ok, and imported them here.. > > they broke. > > At this point I removed xft, freetype, fontconfig KDE and qt.. Fed up > and rebuilding (did I forget to add that I was playing with prelink, > some highly dev X11 stuff, some KDE beta thingies and so on??? .. of > course I did, I'm insane, remember? ;-) > > > .... Forgot about it for a day (Gnome worked, Galeon and mozilla did > too... ) > > And then KDE suddenly worked. > > Sorry, but my story might not be that relevant, but.. aye, I think I > know what you mean :/
Also making sure that the fonts are cached well is a good idea (fc-cache). Sometimes a restart of X fixes the problems after that (qt internal caching). Next font permissions must not be fucked up (the user not having read permissions on the actual font files) Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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