Bug 474171

I can't reproduce it in Konsole, works for me, text is rendered correctly for all fonts in selection.

I can't reproduce either.

We've seen this in the past on several occassions due to buggy (usually 3rd-party/binary) X drivers (*cough* nvidia *cough*).

What video hw/driver are you using? :)

Rex: I'm seeing this on two different setups. My laptop has this according to lspci: "Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML" and it's using the "intel" X.org driver. My desktop has an nVidia 6600GT and that's using the "nouveau" X.org driver, which in general has worked well for 2D.

I forgot to mention that both of these systems have been upgraded since Fedora Core 6, either with the installation DVD or Preupgrade. Are there any specific configurations that I should remove? I've already once removed the ~/.kde folder, that didn't help. If it seems like a clean reinstall would help, I could try doing that, although it'd be quite some work.

Looking closer at your screenshot, it would appear you have one or both of:
1.  fontconfig support for bitmap fonts enabled (fedora's default is disabled)
2.  still using xfs (x font server).

Either one of these ring a bell?

I'll try enabling bitmap fonts, and see if I can reproduce the problem in the meantime.

that, or you have a rogue/corrupted copy/version of LucidaTypewriter on your system somewhere.

rats, enabled bitmaps, still can't reproduce.

Thanks for looking into this. I tried to find some "font related hacks" I've done to the system.

 - I had an old installation of the proprietary JDK in /opt, it had some fonts, 
   so I removed it completely
 - I had the msttcorefonts unofficial package installed, I removed it
 - I had the freetype-freeworld package installed, I removed it
 - I reinstalled the fontconfig package with yum just to be sure the config files 
   would be overwritten

These helped a bit, now the fonts work in the Konsole main screen, but they don't work in the preview screen, quite weird. If I press "x" in KMail main screen, the fonts go missing just like they do in the Konsole preview screen. The problematic fonts are LucidaTypeWriter, Majumori and MiscFixed.

Btw, I have no idea how to enable or disable bitmap fonts or how they are enabled if they're supposed to be disabled. Maybe I've tinkered with some configs some time and forgotten about it since...

One last ditch thing to try (as root);
fc-cache -f -s
(to force regeneration of all fontconfig caches)

I removed .kde*, .qt/ and .font* from my home directory and ran fc-cache -f -s. Now all the fonts work. I have no idea what caused this, maybe there was some old font setting in one of these files which messed up some fonts...

I'll close as WORKSFORME since I'm not quite sure if I can use NOTABUG, this may or may not have been a bug ;)

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This issue already appears to be the fourth highest voted open issue in Fedora.
This is a beta release of Red Hat Bugzilla  3.4. The data contained within is a
snapshot of the live data so any changes you make will not be reflected.
Excellent site, keep up the good work. I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis
and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick
comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks
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