I find that EVERY time I try to use knode, it royally screws up KDE. I can
set it up fine, add a news server, etc, and I can download message headers OK
but the moment I try to view a message, KDE is wrecked and only a reboot
seems to get it back. I cannot start ANY KDE apps after this. Konsole, kap,
etc, etc...nothing KDE-related will work. Trying to do so produces error
messages about the DCOP server not finding any useable fonts in
.xsession-errors.
What I see as I start the reboot is a message indicating that a "could not
find default font 'fixed' " and that it couldn't find any usable fonts.
Of course this is bullcrap as all the fonts on my system are usable - it's
just that something about knode wrecks everything, having a problem with the
perfectly fine fonts on my system.
Here is my chkfontpath:
Current directories in font path:
1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled
3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk
7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont
8: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/pcf_drakfont:unscaled
9: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/msttfonts
10: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
11: /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western
12: /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives
ALL of these paths contain valid, working fonts. ALL of them.
I fear messing with knode any more since everything I have tried to get it
configured to, hopefully, avoid this problem fails and I end up rebooting.
What is this default 'fixed' font that knode can't live without? Why is it
that magically, all the other fonts become invisable to KDE after using knode?
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Praedor
