lots of fonts as root, only a few as user???

[Guest_imported]

Hi all,

I am running Red Hat 7.1 on a Dell 1.4 GHz and its lovelllllyyyyy! All the hardware was detected incl. zip drive, ata100 hdisk cotroller, 64mb graphics, dvd player ...anyway, before I get carried away...

I recently installed KDE2.2 as root. Now, if i log in as a user, I have access to only 6 basic system font sets, which as you can imagine is not very nice. Root still has access to the complete fontset though???

I can't seem to figure out how to make the complete fontset available to a user account. Any help would be most appreciated!
Thanks in advance.

 

[TheRAt]

I am sure that the fonts are controlled by the X Server rather than by KDE. Check out the following doc and see if this is what you need. I have always used these as guides while installing more fonts.

http://www.kde.org/documentation/faq/configure.html#id2764451

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[ifincham]

Hi,

Redhat uses the X Font Server (xfs). This is a daemon that runs on port 7100 and is pointed to by your XF86Config / XF86Config-4 config file (in /etc/X11 ). The config file of xfs itself is /etc/X11/fs/config . If you set up all the fonts under xfs they should be available to any user. See -->

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/ref-guide/s1-x-fonts.html

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Maybe KDE does something outside of xfs - e.g. puts info in a user .xinitrc file.

See also -->

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Font-HOWTO.html#s4

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Hope this helps

 

[Guest_imported]

thanks for all your suggestions guys, i figured out the prob before i could even look at you're suggestions.

i realised that i had the font problem with user accounts i created before installing kde2.2, so i then created new accounts and they were fine.