| Summary: | KDE with xft2 does not display fonts correctly | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | naanyaar2000 |
| Component: | [OLD] KDE | Assignee: | Gentoo KDE team <kde> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | agm, azarah, dominik.thiel, fghellar, fjleon, fla_hawk1, foser, garbage2007, hunter, paidhi, tobler_pc |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | 1.2 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
naanyaar2000
2003-01-07 23:20:51 UTC
which version of media-libs/fontconfig is merged? this bug should be fixed in 2.1. * media-libs/fontconfig
Latest version available: 2.1
Latest version installed: 2.1
FYI, I have a gentoo 1.2 install that has been rsync'ed and emerged -u --deep
world regularly.
Just curious, what was the nature of the fix?
Thanks.
sorry, i meant freetype, not fontconfig. iirc, freetype can use zipped fonts since 2.1.3. which version do you have? I have freetype 2.1.2-r2. 2.1.3-r2 is marked as "~x86" in the ebuild (rsync'ed today morning). Thanks. Hi, I have the same font problem (Gentoo 1.4rc2, kde-3.0.5a, qt-3.1.0-r1, xft-2.0.1). Emerge freetype 2.1.3-r2 didn't fix the problem for me. Is there anything special to do after emerging the new freetype version? Meanwhile the tip with uncompressing the files in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc did solve this for me. BTW: The command above should be fc-cache, instead of ft-cache. -Markus- Emerge freetype 2.1.3-r2 didn't fix the problem for me either, perhaps we need to emerge qt and/or kdebase again? Duh! I forgot to re-emerge fontconfig, freetype 2.1.3-r2 does indeed solve the problem! I can confirm that the latest freetype fixed this issue for me as well. ok, so anyone still has this problem? seems to be fixed for at least 2 persons :) if it persist, please reemerge fontconfig and freetype. I believe we've agreed the problem is that freetype 2.1.2 can't handle compressed PCF fonts and that this is fixed on 2.1.3. Before this can be closed freetype-2.1.3-r2 needs to be unmasked! Just to report the re-emerging of fontconfig fixed this for me. I just noticed this problem when i unmerged all previous kde versions from my system and kept only 3.1 Emerging the new freetype and fontconfig fixed SOME of my fonts (the fixed ones). That is good. I am not sure if this is part of the same problem, but I can't use any .bdf fonts either - some screenshots are here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=32814&highlight= These fonts used to work perfectly. The situation has changed slightly from that forum posts - now the bdf fonts (specifically Neep), don't show up at all in the "font example" fields in the dialogues to select fonts. They show up in the font lists, but they cannot, apparently, be displayed. They show up fine in Windowmaker. I had hoped that re-emerging fontconfig and the latest freetype would fix that problem; it hasn't. Wouldn't care too much except this is the font I use for *everything*. 20220521: please take a look at bug #10998, maybe you've also encountered this bug? there is also bug #14794, which i haven't looked at yet, but it is also a font-related problem. I found another solution. Since the xft package was dragged in for my by the most recent qt update, I decided to go back to the old qt and unmerge the xft package. That version of qt refused to emerge the first time, complaining in fact that it couldn't find xft. I knew that it had worked fine before without xft so I did: emerge unmerge qt xft emerge -e /usr/portage/x11-libs/qt/qt-3.1.0-r1.ebuild This built fine and I have my fonts back =) I hope that this helps pinpoint the problem to people more familiar with the internals of xft, freetype, and qt. I did verify that I can re-cause the problem by upgrading again. I then refixed my problems as above. I seem to have had the same problem ( look @ #14794 ) I only emerged xfree-4.2.99 which solved the problem too, dunno why:-) Hunter Ware: maybe you needed also the following emerge fontconfig freetype xft emerge qt kdelibs ? anyway, this bug can be closed, or are there any objections? sorry, only read last 3 comments, we still need to mark freetype-2.1.3-r2 stable before this bug is solved. foser: any objections? or who is our font guy? hmm looks fine to me, but you should at least notify azarah if you mark it stable. I don't know how this stuff works exactly but I wonder if you wanna mark the bug solved unless a >=freetype-2.1.3 is unmasked... Azarah: any objections? maybe after the freeze? After emerging xfree-4.3.0 the problem appeared again! Remerging freetype, fontconfig and xft didnt help. Tomorrow i'll try remerging qt and kdelibs (as suggested by hannes above, sorry, only whooping 350mhz;) ) Remerging freetype, fontconfig, xft2, qt and kdelibs didnt solve the problem. What more can I try? I updated to 2.1.3-r2 and re-emerged fontconfig (2.1). This fixed *some* of the fonts, but not all. For example, the following fonts seem to have problems: Clean Fangsong Ti Gothic Mincho Nil Song Ti Hello!
I am have just installed Gentoo (rc2) for the first time. I decided to go and unmask and
install Xfree86 4.3 along with all it's dependencies. Things seemed to work ok for ahwile except
for a few minor font problems but now I am having problems in KDE with irregularlly spaced
fonts and some fonts simply having vanished from the font selection dialogs even though when
I check in KDE Font Installer they are still present. I have reason to believe the above bug is
NOT fixed yet. my version of freetype is :freetype-2.1.3-r2 my version of fontconfig is:
fontconfig-2.1-r1. Unless I read incorrectly these problems were supposed to have been solved
using above versions. This seems to not be the case. Mind you I had no earlier version of X
installed on my system. These version are what were installed along with X when I first
installed XFree86 4.3.
Anybody able to help me on this? It is driving me NUTS!
<RagnaRoC> it seems I have discovered a bug that others have been bit by but as to the fix for it not truly certain...please look at all this.... <RagnaRoC> <DanielS> RagnaRoC: Downgrade your fontconfig to anything less than 2.1.90. <RagnaRoC> [09:29:38] <DanielS> 2.1.90 has some, um, fun issues. :) <RagnaRoC> [09:31:08] <RagnaRoC> Um....i am just using whatever got installed along with Xfree86 4.3...don't knwo a thing about any of that.. <RagnaRoC> [09:31:12] <RagnaRoC> what kinda issues? <RagnaRoC> [09:32:10] <DanielS> It's screwed. <RagnaRoC> <DanielS> Hmmm. <RagnaRoC> [09:32:52] <DanielS> Well, we've seen the same on Debian, and it's all due to fontconfig 2.1.90. <RagnaRoC> DanielS> I don't know how to roll back in Gentoo, but that's what you need to do <RagnaRoC> <DanielS> Trust me, I know what the issue is. :) <RagnaRoC> [09:37:05] <RagnaRoC> so this is all related to the new xfree86 4.3 release? <RagnaRoC> ] <DanielS> 01:47 < DanielS> RagnaRoC: Inconsistent font selection (some X11 core fonts excluded?), monospacing seems to have gone to hell, other random <RagnaRoC> [10:04:56] <DanielS> brokenness. <RagnaRoC> and then kerframil gave me this link........... <RagnaRoC> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13472http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13472 <RagnaRoC> I am still reading through it <RagnaRoC> not sure exactly what to remerge with to truly solve it without breaking other things at same time <RagnaRoC> Thre are a number of different ideas on ways to do this Well folks back again I am....The IRC conversation posted by seemant above was me (RagnaRoC) talking to another in #Xfree86 via the server irc.debian.org about these problems in this thread. For what it is worth I have tried remerging freetype and fontconfig..and maybe one other.prg (Not sure off top my head at the moment) but no luck as of yet. Font handling in KDE/X still quite broken. . :( What version of fontconfig is currently on the portage tree? I saw 2.1-r1 (I think this is masked?) this has not helped me any. I never used KDE so I was a bit annoyed when I emerged and compiled it all on my (slow) Powerbook G3. After reading all of this stuff and on the forums, I tried to emerge fontconfig and some other fonts. The ungzipping worked but that's very messy and makes your fontdirs huge. So I looked at the freetype website and saw that there was a new version, 2.1.4rc2. Made an ebuild out of that, recompiled, nada. After playing around for a while, decided to link /usr/lib/libfreetype* /usr/X11R6/lib and it worked! KDE is a nice improvement for migrating from redmond. Here are my current version numbers (in no particular order): [ebuild R ] media-libs/fontconfig-2.1-r1 [ebuild UD] x11-libs/qt-3.1.0-r3 [3.1.1-r2] [ebuild R ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r1 [ebuild R ] kde-base/kde-3.1 [ebuild UD] media-libs/freetype-2.1.3-r2 [2.1.4-r2] (I guess that qt version works on PPC) Serius bug people I have the latest versions of xft freetype fontconfig and xfree 4.3, and i cant see all these fonts: All the "Fixed" ones Clean Lucidatypewriter All the "terminal" ones Comment #27 worked perfectly! I deleted all libfreetype files from /usr/X11R6/lib and then did the symlink Thanks Bram! Symlinking alone WONT fix it unless you delete the files first. (because it will create bad links) see bug 18666 for other font issues in kde: some fonts look l i k e t h i s *** Bug 14794 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 18670 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I just added a suggestion to bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18666 Try whether it works. Note that in some cases the ebuild for xfree fucked up the file permissions of the font files (at least with me) Please try to remerge qt and see if that fixes the problems Paul's last comment for test request was a few weeks ago. Closing as TEST-REQUEST. see above comment More brokeness. xft is blocked by xorg-x11 (which i use). Default fonts do not show up properly in most Qt apps, unless you grab the app window by its window handle and drag it around on screen. also works is if i set up a large gnome-terminal scrolling lots of text behind the active Qt window. also works is if the Qt app allows me to change its font to something other than the default font, and change the size too. some other fonts appear broken as well, but i cannot list them because they do not show up in the combo boxes/menus. open a new bug, this is a really old one. |
