Is there anyway to integrate Dropbox in the Sync (cloud) Menu Indicator?
Office fonts in wine look very different from what they look in Windows or LibreOffice. As can be seen from the attached screenshots, they look blurry in some sizes and aliased in other sizes. You can see the differences not only in the document text but also in the ribbon menu. It happens with a lot of fonts.
I'm testing it with Office 2010 now, but it also happens in Office 2007.
Things I've tried:
- Changing fontsmooth settings with winetricks -> made no difference.
- Copying fonts from a Windows system -> made no difference.
- Using Ubuntu's fonts (by removing the Windows/Fonts from the wineprefix) -> removed the blurriness in some fonts but increased aliasing.
The three screenshots correspond to different "configurations":
- office_wine.png -> Office Word in Wine using Wine's original fonts;
- office_nowinefonts.png -> Office Word in Wine using Ubuntu's fonts;
- office_windows.png -> Office Word in Windows.
PS: please make sure to see the screenshots without scaling them to notice the problem.
EDIT: A screenshot of how Calibri behaves in Wine here.
I'm thinking about replacing the wireless card on my laptop (an atheros ar9285) because it is slow.
What are the best half mini PCI-E 802.11n cards with 300 Mbps max speed and two antennas?
I wan't one that works well with Ubuntu.
On Ubuntu 11.10, when on battery, the screen dims after 10 seconds of inactivity. This is annoying because it is too short. Is there anyway to increase this timeout?
I know I can disable it, but that is not what I want.
I have an Asus K52Jc and in sound configuration there is no independent sound device for the headphones, and so there's no way to have independent volume for speakers and headphones.
Is there a way to have independent devices? Or is this hardware specific?
lshw reports that I have an "Intel 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio".
aplay -l reports:
placa 0: Intel [HDA Intel], dispositivo 0: CONEXANT Analog [CONEXANT Analog]
Subdispositivos: 1/1
Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0
placa 0: Intel [HDA Intel], dispositivo 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdispositivos: 1/1
Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0
If when using an encrypted home (with eCryptFs) my system has a power failure is it more likely to cause data loss than it would if it wasn't encrypted? At what extent?
What about a system freeze?
I have a system with both Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7 and I want to encrypt the whole harddisk or at least some of my partitions.
My partition table is something like this (the ones marked with * are the ones that need to be encrypted):
- Windows boot reserved partition
- *Windows system partition (ntfs)
- *Windows data partition (ntfs)
- Ubuntu root partition (ext4)
- *Ubuntu home partition (ext4)
- Ubuntu swap
As I said I don't need to encrypt the whole disk.
What is the best way to accomplish this? Maybe something (TrueCrypt?) where I enter the password before the system boots so that it decrypts the whole hdd? Or maybe individual encryption using Windows-only encryption (for Windows partitions) and Ubuntu home encryption (well, for Ubuntu home partition)?
By the way, I almost always use Ubuntu, so it would be nice if I could continue to boot Ubuntu by default but have an option to boot Windows too (like in grub).
EDIT: I was thinking of doing this: encrypting ubuntu home with eCryptfs (I think this is used to encrypt home when selected during installation). Encrypting Windows partitions with TrueCrypt. Still having Grub as a bootloader, when I choose ubuntu everything goes as normal (home is decrypted when login in). When I choose windows the TrueCrypt password prompt shows and windows boots.