Posts Tagged ‘Ubuntu’
Fix Ugly Fonts in Ubuntu
After recently trying out Kubuntu by installing kubuntu-desktop package, after switching back to Ubuntu I found all the fonts to be very ugly and scrawny. Simply playing with the font settings in System > Preferences > Appearence made the desktop and application fonts appear much nicer but fonts in Firefox and Chromium still looked very nasty.
The fix is quite simple, in your home directory delete the folder “~/.fontconfig”. Log out to restart your session and your fonts should now appear smooth and fuller.
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I have just recently migrated my virtual machines from VirtualBox to VMware player, mainly beacuse VMWare player seems to give far better performance and also NAT networking is better though out with easier communication from host to guest.
One of my VM’s is an instance of Ubuntu Server 10.04, which exactly mirrors the software configuration of my production web server, this enables me to develop on my laptop without the need for an internet connection. The Ubuntu Server VM needs to have access to the files that I am working on in order to server these up as a website back to me. VirtualBox has a very easy configuration for shared folders but VMware has been problematic with the Ubuntu Server VM not seeing or mounting the shared folders. However, I have found the solution to this problem.
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There are many programs around for converting or transcoding videos, but I find GUI tools can sometimes be a lot of clicking to get the job done. The command line is ideal for this task as in one line we can transcode and resize/resample any video we want. The real power, however, is when we add this to a script to start automating the work for us. In this example I have used the Mencoder tool which is part of Mplayer program but there are others such as ffmpeg and transcode (Linux only). I also believe Avidemux can be used on the command line as well.
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Having just recently been given a new laptop for work (Sony Vaio E Series 15.5″), I have found that the touch pad doesn’t work with Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick).
The solution is simple, you just need to edit the file /etc/default/grub. Change the following line
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="i8042.nopnp"After the edit, open up a terminal and run
$sudo update-grub
Then reboot and find your touch pad working. There is however, a problem, which is that it is recognised as a mouse so you can not use features such as turning of the touch pad when you are typing, which I find really annoying.
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I have just recently splashed out on a Dell Studio 17 which comes with ATI HD3650 graphics. I would have been happier if they still did this laptop with Intel graphics which, in my experience, work hassle free out of the box.
I took my hard drive out of my old laptop which had Intel GMA graphics and put it in my shiny new Studio 17. Everything seemed to be fine until I tried playing a video in Totem or VLC. The video was very dark and reddish. I tried installing the proprietry crap fglrx which seems to suck at multi head if the external monitor has a higher resolution than the laptop screen. With this fglrx driver enabled the video completely disappeared and left just a blank black window in Totem.
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