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Teruel de Campo MD

28 Dec 2008 28 Dec '08

15:01

I for many years I've used a small java program to monitor my e-mail that is in many ways unique (mailfaces). The problem was that since opensuse 10.2 or may be 10.1 was not stable, occasionally freezing the screen. Under opensuse 11.1 (java 1.6) is very stable and I have not had any problems. The only thing is that the fonts do not look as good as in the previous version. The same is happening with all the java applications I run (freemind etc). I still have not found a way to configure the fonts for java at system level. In summary to have mailfaces on all the time is a major plus for me. http://members.cruzio.com/~jthomas/mailfaces/ -=terry=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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John D Lamb

28 Dec 28 Dec

18:19

On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 08:01 -0700, Teruel de Campo MD wrote:

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I for many years I've used a small java program to monitor my e-mail that is in many ways unique (mailfaces). The problem was that since opensuse 10.2 or may be 10.1 was not stable, occasionally freezing the screen. Under opensuse 11.1 (java 1.6) is very stable and I have not had any problems. The only thing is that the fonts do not look as good as in the previous version. The same is happening with all the java applications I run (freemind etc). I still have not found a way to configure the fonts for java at system level.

Which Java do you have? Try # update-alternatives --config java You may find it better to install and use Sun Java. -- JDL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Teruel de Campo MD

19:01

On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 18:19 +0000, John D Lamb wrote:

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On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 08:01 -0700, Teruel de Campo MD wrote:

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I for many years I've used a small java program to monitor my e-mail that is in many ways unique (mailfaces). The problem was that since opensuse 10.2 or may be 10.1 was not stable, occasionally freezing the screen. Under opensuse 11.1 (java 1.6) is very stable and I have not had any problems. The only thing is that the fonts do not look as good as in the previous version. The same is happening with all the java applications I run (freemind etc). I still have not found a way to configure the fonts for java at system level.

Which Java do you have? Try

# update-alternatives --config java

You may find it better to install and use Sun Java. -- JDL

I am running a default installation of opensuse 11.1 and this is what I am using /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk/bin/java Again I am happy about stability and I can modify the fonts for each individual application. iirc sun java did not have the plugin (64b)for firefox and it was one of the reason that I started to look into the openjava initially using the fedora project. This was all under opensuse 11. Now under 11.1 that was the default but it is easy to try Sun Java. Thxs Regards, -=terry=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Kai Ponte

19:31

Teruel de Campo MD wrote:

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I for many years I've used a small java program to monitor my e-mail that is in many ways unique (mailfaces). The problem was that since opensuse 10.2 or may be 10.1 was not stable, occasionally freezing the screen. Under opensuse 11.1 (java 1.6) is very stable and I have not had any problems. The only thing is that the fonts do not look as good as in the previous version. The same is happening with all the java applications I run (freemind etc). I still have not found a way to configure the fonts for java at system level. In summary to have mailfaces on all the time is a major plus for me.

http://members.cruzio.com/~jthomas/mailfaces/

Just curious - are the apps AWT, SWING, SWT or commandline? I would think that - for Swing or SWT apps, they'd use a default system font. I do that on my Java apps. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Teruel de Campo MD

20:02

On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 11:31 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:

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Just curious - are the apps AWT, SWING, SWT or commandline?

I would think that - for Swing or SWT apps, they'd use a default system font. I do that on my Java apps.

Swing -=terry=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Simon Roberts

20:24

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From: Kai Ponte To: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 12:31:31 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] java impressions

Teruel de Campo MD wrote:

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I for many years I've used a small java program to monitor my e-mail that is in many ways unique (mailfaces). The problem was that since opensuse 10.2 or may be 10.1 was not stable, occasionally freezing the screen. Under opensuse 11.1 (java 1.6) is very stable and I have not had any problems. The only thing is that the fonts do not look as good as in the previous version. The same is happening with all the java applications I run (freemind etc). I still have not found a way to configure the fonts for java at system level. In summary to have mailfaces on all the time is a major plus for me.

http://members.cruzio.com/~jthomas/mailfaces/

Just curious - are the apps AWT, SWING, SWT or commandline?

I would think that - for Swing or SWT apps, they'd use a default system font. I do that on my Java apps.

Fonts always used to be specified in a properties file. That allows the program to make platform independent references to something that is usually platform specific. Check out: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/intl/fontprop.html This relates to Java 1.3, and I know that these files exist in 1.6, but I don't know if the means of using them might have changed. Hopefully this gives you something to work with. Cheers, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Teruel de Campo MD

21:32

On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 12:24 -0800, Simon Roberts wrote:

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----- Original Message ----

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From: Kai Ponte To: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 12:31:31 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] java impressions

Teruel de Campo MD wrote:

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I for many years I've used a small java program to monitor my e-mail that is in many ways unique (mailfaces). The problem was that since opensuse 10.2 or may be 10.1 was not stable, occasionally freezing the screen. Under opensuse 11.1 (java 1.6) is very stable and I have not had any problems. The only thing is that the fonts do not look as good as in the previous version. The same is happening with all the java applications I run (freemind etc). I still have not found a way to configure the fonts for java at system level. In summary to have mailfaces on all the time is a major plus for me.

http://members.cruzio.com/~jthomas/mailfaces/

Just curious - are the apps AWT, SWING, SWT or commandline?

I would think that - for Swing or SWT apps, they'd use a default system font. I do that on my Java apps.

Fonts always used to be specified in a properties file. That allows the program to make platform independent references to something that is usually platform specific. Check out: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/intl/fontprop.html

This relates to Java 1.3, and I know that these files exist in 1.6, but I don't know if the means of using them might have changed. Hopefully this gives you something to work with.

Cheers, Simon

Thxs Simon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Michal Vyskocil

2 Jan 2 Jan

13:25

On Sunday 28 December 2008 16:01:46 Teruel de Campo MD wrote:

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I for many years I've used a small java program to monitor my e-mail that is in many ways unique (mailfaces). The problem was that since opensuse 10.2 or may be 10.1 was not stable, occasionally freezing the screen. Under opensuse 11.1 (java 1.6) is very stable and I have not had any problems. The only thing is that the fonts do not look as good as in the previous version. The same is happening with all the java applications I run (freemind etc). I still have not found a way to configure the fonts for java at system level.

Hi, please add the list of applications with bad fonts to the bnc#438674.

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In summary to have mailfaces on all the time is a major plus for me.

http://members.cruzio.com/~jthomas/mailfaces/

-=terry=-

-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Teruel de Campo MD

14:35

On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 14:25 +0100, Michal Vyskocil wrote:

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On Sunday 28 December 2008 16:01:46 Teruel de Campo MD wrote:

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I for many years I've used a small java program to monitor my e-mail that is in many ways unique (mailfaces). The problem was that since opensuse 10.2 or may be 10.1 was not stable, occasionally freezing the screen. Under opensuse 11.1 (java 1.6) is very stable and I have not had any problems. The only thing is that the fonts do not look as good as in the previous version. The same is happening with all the java applications I run (freemind etc). I still have not found a way to configure the fonts for java at system level.

Hi, please add the list of applications with bad fonts to the bnc#438674.

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In summary to have mailfaces on all the time is a major plus for me.

http://members.cruzio.com/~jthomas/mailfaces/

-=terry=-

Done. -=terry=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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