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#1 2010-07-31 07:39:26
- hawk
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Zombie ~/.fonts.conf
For some reason, no matter how many times I delete it, a new .fonts.conf keeps appearing in my home directory. I'm using KDE 4 at the moment, any ideas what may be recreating this, or how to go about figuring that out? The file disables subpixel rendering for some resaon, and overrides my hinting settings in /etc/fonts/local.conf.
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#2 2010-07-31 12:35:26
- DonVla
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Re: Zombie ~/.fonts.conf
KDE's systemsettings overwrites it.
Everytime you go on the fonts tab, it rewrites its settings to your local .fonts.conf.
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#3 2010-08-01 02:30:04
- hawk
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Re: Zombie ~/.fonts.conf
You're right, it's every time I got to System Settings -> Appearance.
That's really, really stupid. Is there any way to prevent this, other than just deleting every time I change a setting?
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#4 2010-08-01 03:19:02
- flamelab
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Re: Zombie ~/.fonts.conf
Well, you can make it unwritable by the user (with chmod or chown or attrib) but then the font settings through SystemSettings wouldn't be applied then.
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#5 2010-08-01 04:06:10
- hawk
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Re: Zombie ~/.fonts.conf
Tried that... set permissions to 640, and it still overwrote it.
Then I chown'd it to root:root with permissions again set to 640, and it still replaced it! ...How is that even possible?
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#6 2010-08-01 05:09:37
- rusty99
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Re: Zombie ~/.fonts.conf
640 = -rw-r----- so it's still got write permission, try 400 or 440
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#7 2010-08-01 05:50:25
- hawk
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Re: Zombie ~/.fonts.conf
Ugh, you're right. Brainfart. Doesn't seem to make a difference though.
440, owned by me, the file gets overwritten.
440, owned by root, system settings crashes.
444, owned by root, the file gets replaced with one owned by me.
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#8 2010-08-01 05:55:30
- Diaz
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Re: Zombie ~/.fonts.conf
It's bad that kde behaves this way. Maybe fill a bug upstream? I don't think this behaviour should be acceptable.
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#9 2010-08-01 06:04:25
- hawk
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Re: Zombie ~/.fonts.conf
Looks like there already is one...
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245664
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#10 2010-08-01 06:22:02
- hawk
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Re: Zombie ~/.fonts.conf
Okay, I've added my 0.02 to the bug, guess all I can do for now is just keep on deleting it every time I open up system settings-> appearance.
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#11 2010-08-01 06:45:41
- dmz
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Re: Zombie ~/.fonts.conf
Okay, I've added my 0.02 to the bug, guess all I can do for now is just keep on deleting it every time I open up system settings-> appearance.
I cant let you do that - http://github.com/trapd00r/rmshit
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#12 2010-08-01 07:06:24
- hawk
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Re: Zombie ~/.fonts.conf
hawk wrote:Okay, I've added my 0.02 to the bug, guess all I can do for now is just keep on deleting it every time I open up system settings-> appearance.
I cant let you do that - http://github.com/trapd00r/rmshit
Mate, you're a bloody legend!
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