[Sussex] What planet are they on ?

[Paul Willis]

I have 11.10x64 here. Firefox-edit-preferences-content has a section
marked "fonts and colours" where the default is serif it seems. Click
it and a list of fonts appear.
There's an advanced button too. It hides a little box which says allow
pages to choose their own fonts. I guess unticking it would force my
selection. But I'm not unhappy with the look of my fox.

Are you missing the list of fonts or just not finding the ones you installed?

Trying to make compiz work (against advice) I've broken unity - lost
the menu thing and panel contents like date and shutdown etc. I use a
keystroke to open a terminal and have to open windows from the command
line. Indeed following the lug talk in August I can now run windows
from another machine using ssh.  All good fun

Paul


On 23 October 2011 16:16,  <johnsemailaccount at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wotcha List,
>
> Damn I must be going mad eh ? 2 posts to the list in less than a
> month.......
>
> So here I am, trying to fine tune a few things with this new, all singing,
> all dancing version of Ubuntu i.e. 11.10 (I forget what idiot name they've
> given it.....)
>
> All I'm trying to do, is to install the windows fonts (and yes, I do have a
> licence and install on a different partition). So, rather than bother you
> good people, I just google it.
>
> Which is fine as there seem to be some rather nice, helpful instructions,
> great! The advice followed and yes, it seems that I've managed to install
> the fonts, but when opening an application that might have some listing of
> fonts to choose from (like firefox), there's no sign of them.
>
> Ok, so I hit google again, as there seems to be no way of changing any of
> the system fonts etc and google gives me a different place to look, which I
> find and try to follow.
>
> The instructions say about installing a package called something like gnome
> tweeks, so that's ok, I can manage something as basic as that. Job done.
>
> Obviously not, as it doesn't matter whether I just log out and back in or do
> a full restart, there's no sign of how to open this facility (nothing in the
> menu etc), so Ok, next step is to
>
> look in the "Ubuntu software centre", and all I can find is "Gnome desktop
> environment with added components".
>
> It's all well and good being able to install all sorts of packages but
> absolutely no good if there's no obvious way of running said packages.
>
> It does seem a bit weird, as I've done this a number of times before, more
> often than not, just clicking a few facilities and bingo, fonts installed
> and available. Yet with this latest version of Ubuntu, they seem to have
> left out or removed some of the things like this, that we "non-techie" types
> rely on.
>
> I mean, what good is it them producing newer versions of things if they
> leave out some of those kind of facilities ? Are they still aiming the
> *buntu's at people in the hope that they'll change from another OS ? or are
> have they given up on increasing market share, and just aiming it at techie
> types who can do all of the more basic things blindfolded ?
>
> "They" seem to make these kind of changes, apparently making things easier,
> but seemingly only from their own point of view - which IMO is a complete
> waste of time, as non-techie types don't understand or know how to do stuff
> from their point of view do they ! Hell, there's not even an option to view
> or change fonts in either the "Accessories" or "System tools". How is the
> less technically adept person gonna work out how to do stuff.
>
> Even the bits of advice and guidance that google kicks up seems to be
> written from a semi-tech approach. That seems to leave stuff out as "they'll
> know how to do that".....
>
> Right, sorry if that sounds a bit like a rant, well it is, but it's not
> supposed to. Just me venting a bit of frustration about something that
> should be reasonably straight forward, that "they" have made hard work!
>
> Keep up your excellent posts, as they do make excellent reading, even if I
> don't follow exactly what it is that you may be trying to do. Like "British
> Rail", I'll get there, eventually.
>
> regards
>
> John D.
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