How to get Luxi Mono in KDE konsole (FC5)

[Roberto Ragusa]

Konrad Karl wrote:
> 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.

It happens to me too.

> 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.

Exactly. The best info I was able to find is this:
  http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde&m=110617132115635&w=2

> 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.

Apparently deleting the type1 font solves the problem, because the TTF
is seen as monospaced.
I haven't tried yet.

> 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.

Probably something changed in QT.

> Really annoying....
> 
> Any hints ane ideas highly welcome.

Avoiding the Type1 could be a solution.

I had a look into the type1 files

  /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/l047016t.afm

and

  /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/l047036t.afm

and I saw that some letters have widths=653 instead
of 600.

Maybe this is the reason that invalidates the "monospace"
attribute.

Best regards.
-- 
   Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it