Archive for May, 2009

Nice MS Fonts (Tahoma, Calibri, etc.) for Ubuntu

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I use several Windows based apps in Ubuntu under Wine and several times I have noticed that the text in some of the apps just don’t look right. Well, I found a good setup that makes all the fonts look like they are supposed to and also gives somewhat of a sharper look to Ubuntu as well. The guide can be found at http://www.stchman.com/ms_fonts.html


Removing applets from Gnome Panel / Resetting Gnome Panel

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So, I was adding applets to my panel and there was one that was messed up. I looked in the gconf-editor and noticed a ton of the applets that I was adding but they were not showing on the panel so I couldn’t delete them. Well, if you want to delete panel applets that you can’t see then open up gconf-editor and navigate to apps/panel/applets and find the name of the key that is the applet you added. It will most likely be named applet_#, look at the bonobo_iid to find out what the applet is.

gconf-editor

gconf-editor

Once you have the name then run the command:

gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel/applets/your_applet_name

If you want to destroy all your panel applets and start over then do:

gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel
gnome-panel --replace