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Can´t change K-menu font after crash
After a system freeze I had to switch off my machine (Slackware 10, KDE 3.2.3). If I change the fonts for KDE, everything works but the font of the K-menu of my regular user don´t change. Renaming the .kde folder temporarily and restarting x works.
I dont´ want to loose all my settings but I can´t find the right config file. I must be somewhere in .kde/share. But which one is it?
Isnt it just in Control Center | Look and Feel | Fonts? There is a place to specify font for your menu.
Alternatively (and how I found it, though some might consider this convoluted), I ran this command:
[code:1] cd ~/.kde; grep -ri font | grep -i menu [/code:1]
and found that the setting is probably stored in share/applnk-mdk/System/Configuration/KDE/LookNFeel/fonts.desktop
fonts.desktop ist just a link to kcmfontinst.
Changing fonts via KDE control center works. Only the menu font won´t change. That´s the problem. No matter which font I choose, it keeps Arial italic. It must be a config file inside of ./kde/share of my actual user. With a new user the problem doesn´t occur. But I don´t want to loose my custom setting by deleting the .kde folder and restart X (which works, too).
But I would expect the control center to be changing files in your .kde/share directory. That's how it would store your personal changes. Hmm..
Here's an idea: You said that if you change any of the other fonts, your changes take effect, right? You could make such a change and then use the command-line command "find" to find files within the .kde directory newer than a given file (and you would "touch" a temporary file with the date/time desired) so that you could see what was changed. If the menu font and other font have any proximity, then that might turn up your file.
(I'm assuming you're command-line-savvy. Sorry if you're not -- I don't know a way to do an equivalent operation within just the GUI)
Also, note that my share/applnk-mdk/System/Configuration/KDE/LookNFeel/fonts.desktop isn't a symbolic link. That might be part of your problem. I would move that symbolic link out of the way and try logging in and seeing if that does it (it being "allowing you to change your menu font within control center).
Thanks epte!
That was a very good idea. I changed the fonts again and searched for files that changed in the last minute (since I´m lazy I used the konqueror search instead of the find command ;-)). It was the kickerrc. I just replaced it with another user´s one and the problem was solved.
Monday, April 29th 2024, 8:39am
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