How to get Luxi Mono in KDE konsole (FC5)

Than Ngo than at redhat.com
Wed Jul 12 14:17:17 UTC 2006


Am Mittwoch, 12. Juli 2006 15:46 schrieb Konrad Karl:
> Hi list,
>
> after a fresh FC5 install (mostly everything) and applying all
> updates I seem to be unable to use Luxi Mono in the KDE
> konsole - it is simply not being offered as a choice.
>
> Googling around did not show anything substantial, the only
> meaningful info I got was something about qt believing that
> one of the four files of the Luxi Mono font family (normal,bold, etc) was
> not considered as fixed width.
>
> In the KDE control center font installation
> all the Luxi fonts are listed as postscript type 1, however
> they are installed as TTF as well:
>
> xorg-x11-fonts-truetype-7.0-3  /usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/luximb.ttf etc.
> and
> xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.0-3     /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/l047013t.pfa etc.
>
> OTOH gnome terminal is able to use this font just fine but gnome terminal
> has other shortcomings (no different color schemes per tab etc.)
>
> However:
>
> at home I am using a machine which has been updated from FC4 (and FC3)
> and did not yet receive the latest FC5 KDE updates.
> On this machine Luxi Mono shows up on the konsole font
> selection dialog just fine.
>
> Really annoying....
>
> Any hints ane ideas highly welcome.
>
> Greetings,
> Konrad

Monospace font is alias for Luxi mono, so you can select this font from 
fontdialog.


Than




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