Konsole Linux Font Not Found

ultraslacker · Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2002 3:56 pm Post subject: Konsole Linux Font Not Found

When I select Linux as font in konsole, the following message appears:

garo · Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2002 7:57 pm Post subject: Same problem here...

I have the same problem, but i didn't install anything except kde3.
Please tell me when you have a solution...

pdouble · Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2002 3:05 pm Post subject:

I found that font in /usr/kde/cvs/share/fonts and /usr/kde/3/share/fonts. I tried adding it to my /etc/X11/XF86Config and /etc/X11/fs/config, but to no avail. The font spec is the same on as in the fonts.dir file, so I'm not sure what's going on. I did restart the X server and the directory showed in the font path.

edave · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2003 Posts: 9

You need to add the fontpath from within KDE. That did the trick for me. Try "kcmshell kcmfontinst" as root and add the fonts contained in the /usr/kde/cvs/share or /usr/kde/3/share/fonts directory as appropriate.

/d

jackp · n00b Joined: 05 Jun 2002 Posts: 12

i ran into the same problem too after emerging qt-3.2.3. I don't know if this is what finally fixed it or not, but you might want to give it a shot. Add

zentec · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 2

From my experimenting, this will work best if you have the fonts installed in /opt/kde as well as having anti-aliasing enabled. Bad news is, KDE doesn't tell you whether or not it's actually doing that.

So I just used Xterm to create a session that uses the Linux font. The command I used is

/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -fn '-misc-console-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-160-iso10646-1' -bc -cr green -fg gray -bg black -rightbar -sl 900

zentec · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 2

I never liked the scrolling with xterm, so upon emerging eterm, I experimented with the settings and found these to be reasonably similar to the konsole we all know and love. Advantage is that this works under gnome.

/usr/bin/eterm -b 0 -f 7 -c green -F '-misc-console-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-160-iso10646-1' -p 0 -l

DArt · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:14 am Post subject:

mpalladi · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 47

Go to Control Centre, System Administration , Font Installer (Administrator mode ), create a new font folder called kde ( whatever you like ), and add the fonts in <dir>/usr/kde/[KDEVERSION]/share/fonts</dir>

saves messing around

devsk · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 6:06 am Post subject:

devsk · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 12:45 am Post subject:

anyone?

nahpets · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 4:31 pm Post subject:

I got the fonts to work properly by doing the following:

devsk · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 5:56 pm Post subject:

There is another twist to the story here. If your Xserver (like in Xvnc) doesn't support RENDER extension, although it is built into Xft, QT 3.2 won't display AA fonts. konsole will never see them. Upgrade to QT3.3 to see AA fonts in KDE if your Xserver doesn't have RENDER extension.

gtk+ was first on this one!!

eccles23 · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 9

**edave** you are an absolute legend!!!!

that worked perfectly for me first time...
I read all the suggestions in this thread and in a couple of others on this same problem, and your solution was the one I tried last (although I guess by definition the first solution that works is going to be the last that you try

but yeah - I kinda ignored it because it sounded too simple... and it just worked beautifully. no KDE restart... nothing.

I just clicked the 'add fonts' button, added the fonts from /usr/kde/3.2/share/fonts and clicked close...

then opened a console and bingo - no problems.

thanks again

crazee_canuck · n00b Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 3

Although edave's solution didn't work for me,adding

adam_z · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:45 pm Post subject:

adesso provo e speriamo.