KDM fonts

[dbbolton]

I am using kdm 4:4.3.4-3 from squeeze. The fonts are just horrendous. I enabled anti-aliasing in the kdmrc, and rebooted. They still looked like anti-aliasing was off.

What gives?

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 egrep -in 'alias|font' /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc
345:# Whether the fonts used in the greeter should be antialiased.
347:AntiAliasing=true
348:# The font for the greeter headline.
350:GreetFont=Serif,20,5,0,50,0
351:# The normal font used in the greeter.
353:StdFont=Sans Serif,10,5,0,50,0
354:# The font used for the "Login Failed" message.
356:FailFont=Sans Serif,10,5,0,75,0

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EDIT: Here is the solution

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cp -i /home/USER/.fonts.conf /etc/fonts/local.conf 

[craigevil]

Try creating a file called .font.conf in your ~/home

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</fontconfig>

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="autohint" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
   <const>none</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
   <bool>false</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
   <const>hintnone</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

You can also run dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config then run dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

[dbbolton]

Try creating a file called .font.conf in your ~/home

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</fontconfig>

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="autohint" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
   <const>none</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
   <bool>false</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
   <const>hintnone</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

You can also run dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config then run dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

Why would kdm read a font config from a user's home directory? I have one anyway:

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<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
   <const>none</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
   <const>hintfull</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

I will try reconfiguring fontconfig.

[Raffles10]

Have you run systemsettings as root and configured your fonts for your root user ? I don't know if this would actually affect kdm but it's worth a try.

[dbbolton]

I tried running systemsettings as root and turning on anti-aliasing. After restarting KDM, the fonts look the same as they did beforehand.

[dbbolton]

- dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig did not work
- removing my kdmrc and replacing it with one from a system with antialiased fonts in KDM did not work
- changing the theme did not work
- running the graphical "login window" tool did not work

[dbbolton]

It turns out that I had to copy my ~/.fonts.conf to /etc/fonts/local.conf.

[Raffles10]

Glad you've got it sussed, now I've done the same.