Hi, I've finally got rid of my font problems, which seemed to arise from badly written configuration files. Noticing that one of my apps worked fine (kedit), I wandered through my ~/.kde/share/config/keditrc, and found the catch. In that file, the font was defined as:
lucidatypewriter,12,5,0,50,0 while in all other files, the same font were described as: lucidatypewriter,12,5,15,50,0 Notice the `15' instead of the `0'? Yes, it was the source of all my problems: seems a font defined with that `15' setting cannot be displayed right. Replacing it in the other files (especially kdeglobals) made all my applications behave the good way instantaneously. Still, as this is not the standard X way to define a font, I don't know what that 15 meant. Is it a foundry setting, a width setting, an encoding setting? More important: does the fonts get defined this way only in Debian? If that is the case, the Debian packages should take care of defining them correctly; otherwise, It would require to file a bug report to the upstream maintainers (well, OK, it could be a problem specific to my installation, but I just did an `apt-get install task-kde' so this is very unlikely). Anyway I'm more than happy at the moment. Thanks for the help, too! JB/WSA/JC -- > Il [e2fsck] a bien démarré, mais il m'a rendu la main aussitot en me > disant "houlala, c'est pas beau à voir votre truc, je préfèrerai que > vous teniez vous même la tronçonneuse" (traduction libre) NC in Guide du linuxien pervers : "Bien configurer sa tronçonneuse."
