Wow, things are almost back to normal. I have the middle of a gross throat “thing” involving lovely phlem, and a rusty cough. The house is clean(ish) the cats have survived a hyper couple of days of playing in wrapping paper, and a few bits and pieces of new stuff have found homes. Among these are three siamese fighting fish in a mini-beta holder that Firefly got me. Getting this inspired me to dust off (literally) my old fishbowl and get an occupant for it as well. So far the three (the new fishbowl is a divided rectangle holding two) new fish are surviving, and doing their job of bringing me calm. They have obtained a place of honor on the top shelf of my computer desk, right at eye level. This also allows me to keep an eye on the investigating noses and paws of various cats who are likewise interested in their sleek and sexy shapes and colors.
I did go out to the boxing day sales today, but thankfully the only thing I came home with was a $10 pack of batteries. Not bad, especially when I was looking at $2000 flatscreen TVs and $1000 home sound systems and thinking “not bad…” Sanity prevailed however, and I’m all ok (and not as poor as I could be either).
Tonight was mostly spent thinking that I really should continue on with re-writing the personals search scripts, but I ended finally fixing my X font problems. Turned out I need not only a fonts.alias file for my truetype fonts (/usr/lib/X11/fonts/truetype which is created with this script [archive.org link] with details on this page [archive.org link]) but also to use the xfstt font server. To do this:
- apt-get install xfstt
- Then symlink your truetype font directory(s) into it’s directory with
something like:ln -s /usr/lib/X11/fonts/truetype /usr/share/fonts/truetypeand update it with:
/etc/init.d/xfstt force-reload
- and add the following to your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
file:... FontPath "unix/:7101" # local font server ...
Now not only do we pages like this one not look like absolute shit, but I can also use fonts such as Tahoma (tahoma, tahoma/I love you, tahoma/you’re always a day awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay) without them looking like, well, again, shit. Yay me. Now a bit of re-writing and then I’ll do that bed thing. There’s work to be done tomorrow, even if from home.