Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:44:03 -0400 From: "J. Seth Henry" <jshamlet@comcast.net> To: jesse@wingnet.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X TrueType font spacing Message-ID: <200306111444.03862.jshamlet@comcast.net>
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It isn't just an X problem, it's also a KDE problem. I ran into this recently, after installing some IBM netstations on my network. When I attempted to use anything other than the fixed fonts in Konsole, I would get this strange spacing and video corruption. On my system console, they work fine. I believe it may have something to do with the extensions that KDE uses. When I load K apps on an X terminal, I get several warnings about GLX not being supported. It is interesting that you ran into this problem ostensibly windowing ON a freeBSD host, though. I didn't have any problems when I loaded KDE on console - only when using remote X terminals that didn't support all of the extensions KDE uses. My console runs Xfree86 4.3.0, and I'm running KDE 3.1 BTW - it occurs for all truetype fonts - not just the Microsoft TTF files. Believe me, I've tried several. The BIGGER problem (at least for Konsole) is that there doesn't appear to be any support for ANSI line characters, such that sysinstall and other ncurses apps look terrible. I usually bring up a traditional Xterm if I need to use a curses app. Regards, Seth Henry
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