Tag: ubuntu

Desktop Styling: light and yummy

Posted by Ryan A - October 30, 08

Ubuntu 8

Useless post, but must bump the styles, and of course… the 8.10 release.

So I’ve been using Ubuntu for a while, I threw it on some computers and a notebook somewhere in 2006, but really took advantage in 2007. I never quite did the styles thing until I finally installed the system on the horse I use for development, at home… which I never use…. since I’m hardly home these days. Cool story Hansel.

DM did a nice little write up on it a while back as well, and keyed on the stock visual effects, which are very nice. Here’s my current style mix.

That’s basically it. Oh, and some good old Compiz (though I keep the Visual Affects on ‘Normal’ most of the time).

I take it that most of the otakusphere is hell-bent on M$, with a few OSX Taigas, and probably more *nix users. For M$ users, it’s definitely worth a shot, it’s fast, pretty, candy-ful, mplayer is the jam-u, and actually quite easy to work with once everything is installed.

… though, I may not be the best advocate, since I’ve not used XP in about 2 years, and have used linux on-and-off since Slackware 3 and RedHat 5.

How do you input Japanese?

Posted by Ryan A - September 17, 08

Secrets

How do you? I played out some solutions (in Ubuntu) because it’s quite annoying to not have the feature when looking up words. I do recommend having at least one Ubuntu partition on a computer, just to try it, it’s a very good switch from Windows.

So Apt, Gnome, Debian, Ubuntu mixed make it quite simple to get things working. What I wanted was to be able to type in applications, using roman characters, but hot-key into using Hiragana and Katakana. Though I did want to be able to use a Japanese key-map, I haven’t looked into it since I’ve not used my SGI board since upgrading the home server.

First, and without any modifications, Japanese input is viable by using gvim and selecting the alternate keymap (Edit->Keymap). Nice, but not a full solution.

Here is the guide.

Okay, this is near useless unless the OS is Ubuntu. Now I didn’t follow the entire guide, so my route went from Adding Ubuntu Language Support to Rebuilding Font Cache. Also, I left out ipafont ipamonafont, from the apt-get command.

Basically, that’s it. Control+Space and j-characters are on in nearly every application. The option to login with a full Japanese session is also available, but its a feature I won’t use often.

Still, I don’t know how Windows goes about this topic, but for anyone struggling… go ahead, try Ubuntu.