Opera 8.51 on MEPIS - fonts make opera unusable - Linux

Does anyone else have this problem?

See screenshot:

http://engineering.jhu.edu/~jeff/opera_problem/

It seems that the UI parts of Opera are choosing a non-readable font to
display. How is Opera deciding to use this useless font is beyond me.

Anyone know how to fix it? Ironically, I can't even fix it by using the
preferences in Opera because everything is written in that illegible font
and I can't even tell what prefs page I am on.

Stats:
MEPIS Linux 3.4-rc1
KDE 3.4
Opera 8.51 static "other" Deb package

If I use a linked opera build, will that help?

Thanks!
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On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:26:12 -0500, JDS wrote:

> Does anyone else have this problem?
>
> See screenshot:
>
> http://engineering.jhu.edu/~jeff/opera_problem/
>
> It seems that the UI parts of Opera are choosing a non-readable font to
> display. How is Opera deciding to use this useless font is beyond me.

I've fixed it. I deleted my ~/.opera directory which was left over from
an old Opera installation. Problem is pretty much gone. I say "pretty
much" because now the UI fonts are mostly fine except the application
menus ("File" Edit" etc.) are teensy-tiny. But legible, yes.

Now, how do I automatically add Opera to my KDE menu? And I do mean
automatically. Why didn't Opera add itself to my KDE menu?

later..

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On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:32:38 -0500, JDS wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:26:12 -0500, JDS wrote:
>
>> Does anyone else have this problem?
>>
>> See screenshot:
>>
>> http://engineering.jhu.edu/~jeff/opera_problem/
>>
>> It seems that the UI parts of Opera are choosing a non-readable font to
>> display. How is Opera deciding to use this useless font is beyond me.
>
> I've fixed it. I deleted my ~/.opera directory which was left over from
> an old Opera installation. Problem is pretty much gone. I say "pretty
> much" because now the UI fonts are mostly fine except the application
> menus ("File" Edit" etc.) are teensy-tiny. But legible, yes.
>
> Now, how do I automatically add Opera to my KDE menu? And I do mean
> automatically. Why didn't Opera add itself to my KDE menu?
>
> later..
>

It does on some versions of Linux. In fact, on some versions it gets added
in several locations ...

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