standard fonts gone in kde

[Gaccm]

After my first few times successfully getting into kde, it seems my fonts are all screwy. When I first installed I had helvetica and times fonts. Now, when i go to control center->look&feel->fonts those options are gone, instead everything has been replaced with bitstream charter. This has made Konsole go completely nuts and is so ugly it's unusable (I tried messing with konsole's font controls but that only changed individual letter size which is useless when there is a centimeter of space between each letter). What's most annoying is that I pretty much have a fresh install (just got it done today) and yet this is happening.

p.s. I'm running a fresh install of Debian testing. And KDe v2.2.2

[hop-frog]

You might try getting rid of the kdeglobals file and have KDE generate a new one. kdeglobals contains the global font information for KDE 3.x (I'm not sure if it does for 2.x).

. $ cd ~/.kde/share/config/
. $ mv kdeglobals kdeglobals2
. $ cp kdeglobals2 kdeglobals3

If you don't see any errors, restart KDE. Your custom setup will be messed up only temporarily, so don't panic. ;) This should have caused KDE to create a new kdeglobals file in the same directory that it was before. First see if the fonts are how you like them. If they aren't, move kdeglobals2 back to kdeglobals report back. If the fonts are now favorable, proceed:

Open up the new kdeglobals file and the backed up kdeglobals2 file. Scroll down to where you see [General]. Replace the lines that have fonts listed in kdeglobals2 with the lines that are shown in the kdeglobals file. By doing this you are pasting the old fonts into your kdeglobal file. Save kdeglobals2 as kdeglobals (this will overwrite). Restart KDE. If like everything after this, you can delete kdeglobals3.