Friday, January 25, 2008

Skype fonts too big after KDE4 install?

On Ubuntu Gutsy, if you have installed KDE 4.0, as per this page on Kubuntu.org, you might notice that in Gnome , your Skype font is much too large.

The solution is to

sudo apt-get qt4-qtconfig

then, from the terminal , type

/usr/bin/qtconfig-qt4

You will notice that the QT window has fonts about the same size as the big Skype ones. Change them using the QT Config interface, select File -> Save.

Your Skype fonts will then be back to something more normal in Gnome.

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Ubuntu Gutsy - installing Compiz Snow effect

UPDATE: this post is out of date. Please look elsewhere on installing the Snow plugin

Create a compiz subdirectory in your home folder

mkdir ~/compiz


Install the packages required for compiling compiz plugins
sudo apt-get install compiz-bcop compiz-dev build-essential libxcomposite-dev libpng12-dev libsm-dev libxrandr-dev libxdamage-dev libxinerama-dev libstartup-notification0-dev libgconf2-dev librsvg2-dev libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgnome-desktop-dev x11proto-scrnsaver-dev libxss-dev libxslt1-dev libtool


Download Snow
wget -O ~/compiz/snow.tar.gz 'http://gitweb.opencompositing.org/?p=fusion/plugins/snow;
a=snapshot;h=01d0ff6ec71dae4699bc990e0114569c8ad4e083'


Extract , make , and install

cd ~/compiz/
tar -xvzf snow.tar.gz
cd snow
make
make install


Restart XOrg (logout/login).




Source:13 Compiz plugins for Ubuntu Gutsy