From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 19:48:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C877337B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:48:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21FAE43F75 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:48:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h5K2m5D10871; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:48:05 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: "Rev. Joe Doyle Ardent" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:48:05 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030620023305.GB52638@nebcorp.com> In-Reply-To: <20030620023305.GB52638@nebcorp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306191948.05453.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: Font problem with KDE rendering

text X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 02:48:10 -0000 On Thursday 19 June 2003 07:33 pm, Rev. Joe Doyle Ardent wrote: > Hello, I've recently begun experiencing a very strange > phenomenon. My browser, Konqueror based on KDE 3.1.2, does not render > text that is enclosed in

tags; instead, it presents a series of > small boxes. Copying the "boxes" to the clipboard and pasting them to > an xterm reveals the letters they are replacing. This only happens with >

-tagged text. > I've not changed any of my font settings in Konqueror. This > problem persisted across a quick upgrade from KDE 3.1.1a to 3.1.2, but > did not appear until two days ago, when I likely upgraded one of the > X-related packages (flurry of upgrades preceeded). Here are my X > packages: > > XFree86-FontServer-4.3.0_1 > XFree86-Server-4.3.0_8 > XFree86-clients-4.3.0_2 > XFree86-documents-4.3.0 > XFree86-font100dpi-4.3.0 > XFree86-font75dpi-4.3.0 > XFree86-fontCyrillic-4.3.0 > XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps-4.3.0 > XFree86-fontEncodings-4.3.0 > XFree86-fontScalable-4.3.0 > XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_5 > Xft-2.1.2 > > I hope that someone has some insight into this very bizarre, > subtle problem. Thank you, and have a good day. > There was a problem with an old version of XFree86-Server deleting the fonts during the deinstall that XFree86-libraries had just installed. Try reinstalling XFree86-libraries. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html