Re: Fw: Linux How to Geek Webpage

2009-02-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
I came across this interesting Webpage, it has lots of Linux info tips on it. http://www.howtogeek.com/tag/linux/ Omer, Geoff, Jacob: you win! I surrender! Moshe: Post it to the newbies list. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il

Re: pluginserver.ex

2009-02-24 Thread Dvir Volk
is the CPU consumption related to the sites you are browsing? i.e. skyrockets when browsing ynet, goes down to about 0% when browsing just about:blank? if it's the flash player's host process, that's what i'd expect. on fedora i have a host process called npviewer.bin that behaves as you described

Re: Changing the English characters of Hebrew fonts.

2009-02-24 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have many nice Hebrew fonts that I would like to use for my system font, however, they all have very ugly English letters. Is there a way to change the font that will be used in English in these Hebrew fonts? You can use fontforge to generate a new

Re: Changing the English characters of Hebrew fonts.

2009-02-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/2/24 Matan Ziv-Av ma...@svgalib.org: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have many nice Hebrew fonts that I would like to use for my system font, however, they all have very ugly English letters. Is there a way to change the font that will be used in English in these Hebrew fonts?

Re: Changing the English characters of Hebrew fonts.

2009-02-24 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2009/2/24 Matan Ziv-Av ma...@svgalib.org: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have many nice Hebrew fonts that I would like to use for my system font, however, they all have very ugly English letters. Is there a way to change the font that will

Re: Changing the English characters of Hebrew fonts.

2009-02-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
You don't need that much. Here's a script that takes the letters from a hebrew fonts and adds them to another font: Open(NachlieliCLM-BoldOblique.pfa) SelectAll() Scale(200) Generate(tmp.ttf) Open(SwaBI4nh.ttf) MergeFonts(tmp.ttf) Generate(SwaBI4nh-h.ttf) There are two things you need

Re: Changing the English characters of Hebrew fonts.

2009-02-24 Thread Dov Grobgeld
If you are using fontconfig, which at least KDE and Gtk are using, then you may want to use a Hebrew font without any Latin letters. fontconfig does font matching per character according to a priority queue. If the highest priority font does not contain a given glyph, then the next font in the

Re: Changing the English characters of Hebrew fonts.

2009-02-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
If you are using fontconfig, which at least KDE and Gtk are using, then you may want to use a Hebrew font without any Latin letters. fontconfig does font matching per character according to a priority queue. If the highest priority font does not contain a given glyph, then the next font in the

Re: pluginserver.ex

2009-02-24 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I have a guess. Is your system 64 bits? no This may be a helper process that is meant to allow you to run 32 bit plugins (such as Adobe Flash). No idea why it takes so much CPU, or why it is at all running when no plugins are installed.

Re: pluginserver.ex

2009-02-24 Thread Shlomo Solomon
So far, I don't see any corelation, but I'll try to check this and if your theory is true, I'll let you know. On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Dvir Volk wrote: is the CPU consumption related to the sites you are browsing? i.e. skyrockets when browsing ynet, goes down to about 0% when browsing

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2009-02-24 Thread Shlomo Solomon
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