Unusable kde fonts from upgrade from kubuntu jaunty to karmic

[jonathan9]

I just upgraded from kubuntu jaunty to karmic. During the process, I go a message about missing fonts, but didn't have a working Internet connection to let it get what it needed.

Now, when I start kde, the default font appears to be larger than 60 points making the whole desktop completely unusable (so I can't fix anything from within kde.)

During user login, I can select gnome and it has no problem, so I can get in and edit things, etc.

Where can I find a configuration file, etc. that will let me fix the font size that kde uses?

What fonts/resources am I missing that caused this and potentially other problems?

TIA

Joe

[Snowhog]

Re: Unusable kde fonts from upgrade from kubuntu jaunty to karmic

[Solved] Huge fonts in Kubuntu 9.10 make me unable to do anything

[jonathan9]

Re: Unusable kde fonts from upgrade from kubuntu jaunty to karmic

Thanks a lot! That solved most of the problem. Now, after I login to kde, everything is fine.

The only remaining problem is that this did not fix my login screen which works, but is still unreadable because it still has the huge fonts. What I think I need to do is find the same parameter in a system level file and fix it there too. But, I don't know where it might be.

There's a parameter forceFontDPI in my user directory, but I don't know if it is elsewhere in the system.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Joe

[Snowhog]

Re: Unusable kde fonts from upgrade from kubuntu jaunty to karmic

As root, edit /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc and in the [X-*-Greeter] section, look at:

FailFont=Sans Serif,10,-1,5,75,0,0,0,0,0

and

GreetFont=Serif,20,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0

and

StdFont=Sans Serif,10,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0

These are my settings, and all works as it should. Compare your settings to these.

[Zorael]

Re: Unusable kde fonts from upgrade from kubuntu jaunty to karmic

If indeed it's the DPI going haywire (such as caused by your reported screen dimensions not being sane), you can also edit said kdmrc file and add a '-dpi <dpi>' argument to be called when starting the X server, forcing it to use the dpi of choice. 96 seems to be the de facto standard, making it;

ServerArgsLocal=-br -nolisten tcp -dpi 96

Just do a textual search for ServerArgsLocal to find the line. It should be under the [X-:*-Core] section, if memory serves.

[jonathan9]

Re: Unusable kde fonts from upgrade from kubuntu jaunty to karmic

Thanks all.

The thing that finally fixed it was adding the nomodeset option to my kernel line in grub's menu.lst

Joe