Okay. I just wasted 30 minutes looking for how to adjust my fonts in GNOME. Apparently, GNOME 2.20 is now in Debian testing, and I ended up installing that. After upgrading, somehow my fonts were screwed up a bit, and wanted to fix it. But the GNOME programmers decided to change the preferences menu a bit, and got rid of the “font” preference, and lump it together with the themes, etc in a new “appearance” preference. Somehow it took my half an hour to discover this.

So this is a lame post starting off 2008.  Oh well..

Oops

I was completely wrapped up in labwork last week, and forgot to pick up tickets to go see former President Clinton today! But it’s not like I haven’t seen him talk before. So it’s no big loss. And even though I’m a bit of a political junkie, I feel that my labwork is more important.

Additionally, I installed Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on my desktop! That computer has been sort-of defunct for over a year. Ubuntu breathed new life into it! Yay! The only problem is that the wireless card in the desktop sucks, and I lose the internet rather quickly—the longest lifetime I’ve seen is 1 hour. It’s not like the signal is bad where the computer is, I’m writing this on my laptop, right next to my desktop.

Getting my desktop working got me thinking about the things that I haven’t gotten to work on my laptop. For some reason, I can’t use a key combinations with my windows key—Gnome’s keyboard shortcuts read the windows key as a bindable key (and not something I can use as a modifier). Additionally, the function keys don’t work either. Fn-F2 should mute, Fn-F3 lowers volume, etc. Oddly, when running the Ubuntu install/LiveCD on my laptop , everything works. But not in my configuration of Debian. I’m not sure what it is that is set differently.