Re: [tlug] linux laptop hibernate question

[sjs <sjs@example.com>]

Lyle H Saxon wrote:
> On 7/13/07, sjs <sjs@example.com> wrote:
>
> I have one box that I selected Japanese as the main language and then
> changed to English after the install that works great for Japanese -
> but I'm stuck with Japanese menus in large parts of the total package.
> I would prefer to install English as the primary language and have
> Japanese support under that, but I haven't been able to.  I know -
> there has been one thread after another about the steps required to
> get that working, so I'm not even bothering to ask how here, I'm just
> commenting that it doesn't seem to be a simple "add second language"
> step during the initial install.
This was install was the easiest I have had so far for setting up the 
language.  The desktop is gnome.  I went to the system pulldown 
deselected everything and selected only english and japanese.  It pulled 
in a bunch of files off of the net.  I configured SCIM to use Japanese.  
There was a note to restart SCIM but no note on how to do that.  I could 
have ps'ed for the task and killed and restarted I suppose, but I had to 
leave anyway, so I just shut down and rebooted. 

I   was at my Japanese instructor's house when rebooting and planned on 
starting XP 'cause I knew that worked and didn't know what to expect 
with the new system, but was distracted, so it booted Linux before I 
noticed.  I decided to just try Linux and see what happened.  SCIM  
worked like a charm.

We had a similar discussion a couple of years back with (I think) SuSE 
8.2 or something like that.  Getting Japanese input working the first 
time was really a task.  This time was trivial.
> > The fonts on XP looked better than on Linux under Gnome.  I don't know
> > if there is something I have to add or not.
>
> I wonder if it's the video driver?  I have an old P-III 450MHz machine
> that displays things very clearly, with sharp detail, but on newer
> boxes, the details (quite visible with some fonts, especially small
> ones) are not as good.  Thus I'm writing this message on that old
> 450....
I wouldn't be surprised.  It's quite usable -- just not as clean as in 
windows.  It might also be the fonts.  I've only done a few minutes 
research, but at least one person mentioned using the ttf fonts from his 
windows system on the Linux side as well.  That's probably the next 
thing I'll try.
> Lyle
This was an enlightening experience.  I wasn't expecting this much of an 
improvement.  Overall, the Gnome desktop feels much better to me on 
Ubuntu 7.04 than it did under SuSE 10.1.  That's only been about a year 
or a year and a half.

It is so nice to have Japanese text work in terminals!   And to have a 
decent set of command line tools is just wonderful!

Does anyone know if Ubuntu keeps an installation log?  I　still need to 
chase down that missing driver for the Gateway box.

Steve S.