> On my actual and virtual systems I have a second KDEDIR directory. For
> many years I have used this location primarily to patch sloppy *.desktop
> files that the KDE devs were always too lazy to fix. I also used that
> second location to solve other KDE issues. Using that second directory
> allowed me to not worry about changes to various KDE configuration files
> every time I updated KDE.
>
> Of course, I then set KDEDIRLOCAL and KDEDIRS in my startup scripts.
>
> To eliminate one possible variable in our recent troubleshooting, I unset
> those two variables in my virtual machine running Trinity. When I did that
> I saw an error message I have not seen in several years because of my
> local repairs:
>
> xset:  bad font path element (#79), possible causes are:
>     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>     Directory missing fonts.dir
>     Incorrect font server address or syntax
>
> The error message is generated when startkde checks the font directories,
> specifically the override directories.
>
> For many years this error message puzzled and annoyed many KDE users. Just
> search the web and see that history.
>
> My location solution is not a global fix. My local solution is to copy
> some font files to $KDEDIRLOCAL/share/fonts/override and create a
> respective fonts.dir file.
>
> I would like to see this stupid error message fixed in Trinity --- once
> and for all. :)
>

Should now be fixed in revision 1176204.

Tim