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From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: [Q] Fonts and XFree4
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On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Jonathan Belson wrote:

> Hiya
>
>
> I've just upgraded my XFree86 installation to 4.1.0 via ports.
> Pretty much everything is working apart from a problem with my
> truetype fonts: Mozilla can see them just fine, but KDE can't
> (in other words, they don't appear in the font requesters at
> all).  Applications which use motif (eg. nedit, netscape) have
> little squares instead of characters in the menu and title text.
>
> 'xlsfonts' suggests that X can see the truetype fonts, but it
> seems strange that both KDE/qt and motif are affected by this
> problem.  Has anyone else come across this?

Have you got font anti-aliasing turned on? Most of my fonts are
invisible to KDE when I do this.


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