… gosh, I always forget what I do to my font configs on my machines.
KDE: Enable Antialiasing/Subpixel hinting RGB/Style Medium
Fontconfig system wide: Replace Helvetica with something readable in .fonts.conf
Link 10-autohint.conf and 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
To be never forgotten again for my fonts to look gorgeous.
Since I gave in and switched from Sidux to the new Kubuntu 8.04 - simply because Sidux just was too bleeding edge for my work rig, too many kernel switches and the new 2.6.25 totally borking my Cisco VPN Client - I had to install Lotus Notes 8.01 … Again. And it was horror again. So just for future reference I should write down what made it work.
Stuff you need to install/do on a stock Kubuntu:
# sudo apt-get install libstdc++5 libgnomecanvas2-0 \ libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-0 \ libgnomevfs2-0 libgnome2-0 libgnomeui-0 # cp <notesinstalldatadirectory>/deploy/install.xml /root # sudo mkdir -p /etc/lotus/notes # sudo touch /etc/lotus/notes/notesrc
Launch Installer, install away. Should work. At least did the job for me.
about:config
layout.css.dpi
set to either 72 or 96
Beyond me how that could slip through Q&A.
And why o why is there still no decent Antialiasing enabled by default?
System Settings/Appearance/Fonts, enable Antialiasing, Subpixel-Hinting RGB, Hinting Style slight.
Yes, I wanted to quit World of Warcraft. Yes, I tried. But somehow I keep coming back. What got my interest back (or so I say to myself) is the release of Codeweaver’s Crossover Games. Granted, i played WoW on Linux with vanilla Wine in the past. It worked, but it had it’s hiccups. Sound was suboptimal at best, it stuttered and forgot to play sounds. Graphics were ok, but still a bit behind the Windows version. Enter Crossover Games…
… my Sidux has bash-completion enabled for all apt-commands.
apt-get install amarok<tab> simply rocks instead of using apt-cache search everytime.
Note to self: Intel’s HDA chip on my P35 motherboard sucks and doesn’t support hardware mixing. Debian’s libasound2 sucks too since the plug:dmix is broken for w/e reason.
Solution: Reactived my trusty old Creative Audigy2. Sweet piece of hardware and does hardware mixing.
Thanks to some helpful comment at osnews.com I tried changing my KDE fonts to the excellent Bitstream Vera Sans Fonts with medium Subpixel Hinting enabled and boy… Did that make a difference. Crispy, excellent looking fonts that you can actually read a mile away now. Makes me wonder why no distribution I ever tried has those settings as default.
