[NTLUG:Discuss] Font Issue in KDE2

[Chris Cox]

Stephen Davidson wrote:
> 
> Greetings.
> 
> I have done something really stupid, and I have no idea what.  Whenever I bring up a terminal window in KDE2, the fonts are all messed up, and I
> cant read it.  Select the text, copy into a Text Editor, and I can read it in the text editor.  Just not in the terminal window.
> 
> Please help?

Try disabling anti-aliased fonts.
You may have to edit your kdeglobals file and manually turn it off... search
for AntiAliasing

> 
> Another problem that just started;
> Whenever I switch from KDE to another Virtual Terminal, KDE shutsdown for no apparent reason, kill my GUI session.  The following is the excerpt
> from my log.  Note: This does not always happen, just frequently when I am running kppp and Netscape....
> 
> Console log for davidson
> Apr 24 10:07:17 davidson kdm[455]: IO Error in XOpenDisplay
> Apr 24 10:07:17 davidson kdm[864]: Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly
> Apr 24 10:07:17 davidson kdm[864]: Display :0 cannot be opened

Sounds like an X11 server bug... but who knows... maybe the antialiasing will
fix
this issue as well.

Regards,
Chris