Well, that's me back to square one! At least I've got a usable system again, that I can actually read the text on, etc etc. Now back to trying to work out how to get the damned windows fonts across the "partition Berlin wall"......<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 October 2011 21:05, John The Fatbloke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnsemailaccount@gmail.com">johnsemailaccount@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<p>I hadn't but when I did, yes it showed the Windows fonts, but it also co-incided with the font rendering becoming unstable i.e. in FireFox, the page headers would show fine, but text within a page wouldn't show at all. Also in the limited hope that the update that went through might be causing the issue, I logged out and back in, but it got worse and just rendered the text below the desktop icons as a series of boxes....</p>
<p>So at the moment, I'm using the former Windows user fallback/cure all and running a reinstall, though this time its the ode version (I can almost hear Steve groaning from here :-D ) oh and its the 32 bit version as well, as that's historically (for me) proven more reliable and less hassle.....</p>
<p>Perhaps after about 8 years of various Linux use, I should know how to sort problems like this, but alas I can't get out of the "dont care how it works, just want it to work" mentality......</p>
<p>Hey Ho!</p><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<p>On 24 Oct 2011 17:15, "Dave Pipe" <<a href="mailto:davidpipe@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">davidpipe@tiscali.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:16:39 +<a href="mailto:0000johnsemailaccount@gmail.com" target="_blank">0000johnsemailaccount@gmail.<u></u>com</a> writ<br>
Subject: [Sussex] What planet are they on ?<br>
To: SLUG mailing list<<a href="mailto:sussex@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">sussex@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><u></u>><br>
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Wotcha List,<br>
<br>
Damn I must be going mad eh ? 2 posts to the list in less than a<br>
month.......<br>
<br>
So here I am, trying to fine tune a few things with this new, all singing,<br>
all dancing version of Ubuntu ie 11.10 (I forget what idiot name they've<br>
given it.....)<br>
<br>
All I'm trying to do, is to install the windows fonts (and yes, I do have a<br>
licence and install on a different partition). So, rather than bother you<br>
good people, I just google it.<br>
<br>
Which is fine as there seem to be some rather nice, helpful instructions,<br>
great! The advice followed and yes, it seems that I've managed to install<br>
the fonts, but when opening an application that might have some listing of<br>
fonts to choose from (like firefox), there's no sign of them.<br>
<br>
Ok, so I hit google again, as there seems to be no way of changing any of<br>
the system fonts etc and google gives me a different place to look, which I<br>
find and try to follow.<br>
<br>
The instructions say about installing a package called something like gnome<br>
tweeks, so that's ok, I can manage something as basic as that. Job done.<br>
<br>
Obviously not, as it doesn't matter whether I just log out and back in or<br>
do a full restart, there's no sign of how to open this facility (nothing in<br>
the menu etc), so Ok, next step is to<br>
<br>
look in the "Ubuntu software centre", and all I can find is "Gnome desktop<br>
environment with added components".<br>
<br>
It's all well and good being able to install all sorts of packages but<br>
absolutely no good if there's no obvious way of running said packages.<br>
<br>
It does seem a bit weird, as I've done this a number of times before, more<br>
often than not, just clicking a few facilities and bingo, fonts installed<br>
and available. Yet with this latest version of Ubuntu, they seem to have<br>
left out or removed some of the things like this, that we "non-techie"<br>
types rely on.<br>
<br>
I mean, what good is it them producing newer versions of things if they<br>
leave out some of those kind of facilities ? Are they still aiming the<br>
*buntu's at people in the hope that they'll change from another OS ? or are<br>
have they given up on increasing market share, and just aiming it at techie<br>
types who can do all of the more basic things blindfolded ?<br>
<br>
"They" seem to make these kind of changes, apparently making things easier,<br>
but seemingly only from their own point of view - which IMO is a complete<br>
waste of time, as non-techie types don't understand or know how to do stuff<br>
from their point of view do they ! Hell, there's not even an option to view<br>
or change fonts in either the "Accessories" or "System tools". How is the<br>
less technically adept person gonna work out how to do stuff.<br>
<br>
Even the bits of advice and guidance that google kicks up seems to be<br>
written from a semi-tech approach. That seems to leave stuff out<br>
as "they'll know how to do that".....<br>
<br>
Right, sorry if that sounds a bit like a rant, well it is, but it's not<br>
supposed to. Just me venting a bit of frustration about something that<br>
should be reasonably straight forward, that "they" have made hard work!<br>
<br>
Keep up your excellent posts, as they do make excellent reading, even if I<br>
don't follow exactly what it is that you may be trying to do. Like "British<br>
Rail", I'll get there, eventually.<br>
<br>
regards<br>
<br>
John D.<br>
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Have you tried opening a terminal & typing:<br>
sudo fc-cache -fv<br>
<br>
Dave P<br>
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