font rendered as squares in login screen

varaahan · 2006-06-03 15:49:36

Installed kde and when I try to login thro the kdm login window, all my typings are displayed as small squares only. And I could not login. why?

janwil · 2006-07-01 20:06:25

Hi!

varaahan wrote:

Installed kde and when I try to login thro the kdm login window, all my typings are displayed as small squares only. And I could not login. why?

I am having the same problem with my brand new Gimmick installation. The problem of no letters seems to be connected with the strange behaviour of Fontconfig, namely entering

# fc-list

produces no output whatsoever, although it should list all the fonts available via Fontconfig. Since KDM is using Fontconfig, it is able to find no fonts.

Anyone have any idea how to fix this?

Jan

janwil · 2006-07-01 20:22:51

janwil wrote:

The problem of no letters seems to be connected with the strange behaviour of Fontconfig, namely entering
# fc-list
produces no output whatsoever, although it should list all the fonts available via Fontconfig. Since KDM is using Fontconfig, it is able to find no fonts.
Anyone have any idea how to fix this?

OK; I fixed it in my installation, all that was required was

# fc-cache -f -v

Perhaps one has to issue this command every time a new font is added -- I don't know yet.

Jan

pelle.k · 2006-09-17 01:32:19

I tried your solution. I think that in the end, my problem was not the same, but the result was - that is no fonts in kdm. This is how i got around it; http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … dm+squares

Also, xorg-fonts-100dpi etc doesn't show up in fc-list after fc-cache -fv, i take it that's normal.

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#1 2006-06-03 15:49:36

font rendered as squares in login screen

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Re: font rendered as squares in login screen

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Re: font rendered as squares in login screen

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Re: font rendered as squares in login screen

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