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Since I've upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) Emacs 23 now has beautiful antialiased fonts, but I like the old bitmaped X11 "fixed" font. I do use a .Xresources file to setup emacs default font. This is my emacs section at .Xresources !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! emacs, xemacs !emacs*Background: DarkSlateGray emacs*Background: Black !!!emacs*Foreground: Wheat emacs*Foreground: White emacs*pointerColor: Red emacs*cursorColor: Red emacs*bitmapIcon: on emacs*font: fixed !!!emacs*font: 9x15bold !!emacs*geometry: 100x40+20+20 But for my surprise using this setup emacs launches with a ugly huge serif font. I tried to launch emacs with -fn fixed but the ugly font did still there. So I checked at my /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias, which is the file where fixed font is declared. And it was there: fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 And which had called my attention, was that 6x13 font alias had the same properties as the fixed:...

I have an ATI Raden dual head at my desktop here at my job. I like to use WindowMaker as my window manager of choice, but since I had upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, WindowMaker is showing some issues regarding the dual monitor setup. WindowMaker follows the login screen (GDM) monitor setup and when I launch a gnome-session, things get messed up. The first solution which came to my mind is to make gdm aware of the two monitors. "Googling" around I've found two usefull links: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultiseatOneCard http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1611704 Following the first section of the first link ("Extended desktop through both monitors") I've wrote my new xorg.conf file: Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor0" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" Option "RightOf" "monitor0" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "card0...

Another repost. This pos, form acassis is special for my quest to Voice Picking with freesoftware. More resources on SVox can be found at Open Hand Set Alliance www.openhandsetalliance.com . acassis : " Finally SVox PicoTTS (from Android) is available on Ubuntu 10.10. To install it execute: $ sudo apt-get install libttspico-utils To test execute it: $ pico2wave -w /tmp/test.wav 'Hello World' $ aplay /tmp/test.wav

Another ungly hack ;-) Just type on your linux console: ls -1 *.bmp | cut -d "." -f 1 | while read line ; do convert $line.bmp $line.jpg ; done And voilá!

Note to learn how to use wxWidgets: http://zetcode.com/tutorials/wxwidgetstutorial/thetetrisgame/ http://www.vconrado.com/wx/ http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Makefile On windows (and on wine ;-) we can use wxDev-C++ On Ubuntu, install the libwxgtk2.8-dev deb.