lucumr

I now have that notebook for less than one week in use. Now the enter key that looked wanky for the first few days stopped working completely (i assume they forgot about one of those rubber things) and the space bar and another key makes strange noises when in use a higher temperatures which that notebook reaches automatically. The even warn you to not use it on your lap, that could cause burnings.

But the best part about all that is the service. Or the not service. No idea how you call that. The only chance to fix that problem is going to a certified apple partner. I’m living in Hermagor, I city in the middle of nowhere so the next on is in either 200km or roughly 450km. Or I go to Italy where I get an Italian layout and have to pay some highway toll.

I’m seriously pissed. You pay more than 2000€ for something you have to pay some more money in order to get to a store that will fix your goddamn keyboard which already is crappy (see previous posts).

In my old blog I had one article about font settings in ubuntu edgy. Unfortunately I don’t have an online backup of that page and there was a request for the data there, so I just post it here again as blog post:

There are many ways to improve the font rendering. (That’s because the ubuntu defaults are hideous). Since hoary I use my own font configs based on a configuration from someone I can’t remember.

If you’re looking for a screenshot have a look at the screenshots in the vim article.

xorg.conf
Locate Section “Monitor” and add the following line before !EndSection:

DisplaySize     XXX YYY

You can calculate XXX and YYY using this formula:

DisplaySize = height / 96 * 25.4 width / 96 * 25.4

Here the values I use for various systems:
1024×768 = 270 203
1280×1024 = 338 270
1400×1050 = 370 277

selecting rendering method

dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

Run a root and select “subpixel rendering”.

local.conf
Create a file /etc/fonts/local.conf and paste the following lines:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
 <include ignore_missing="yes">/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/fonts.conf</include>
 <match target="font">
  <test compare="more" name="pixelsize" qual="any">
   <double>12</double>
  </test>
  <edit name="autohint" mode="assign" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
   <const>hintmedium</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="pattern">
  <test qual="any" name="family">
   <string>Bitstream Vera Sans</string>
  </test>
  <edit name="family" mode="assign">
   <string>Arial</string>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="pattern">
  <test qual="any" name="family">
   <string>Helvetica</string>
  </test>
  <edit name="family" mode="assign">
   <string>Arial</string>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="pattern">
  <test qual="any" name="family">
   <string>Palatino</string>
  </test>
  <edit name="family" mode="assign">
   <string>Georgia</string>
  </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

even better settings
You still don’t have what you want? Then try out the patches from this thread on ubuntuforums. But use my local.conf which produces better bold fonts.