Sunday, November 27, 2011

View Japanese/Chinese PDF files under Ubuntu

Long time, I could not find a good PDF viewer which can enable me to view Japanese/Chinese PDF files under ubuntu - with some files they may works, but mostly they will not - either display garbles or display nothing at all.
evince can display the file all the blank...
Adobe Reader is always telling you that you need to install Asian Font Package, but after many times challenge, I gave up, I installed the font package again and again, but never succeed ...
Foxit Reader is good after doing some settings in font mapping from preference menu, however the display is not perfect as expected.

Finally, I found okular + poppler-data is the perfect solution. It at least displays one of my important file perfectly.

Try following, and that's all!

$sudo apt-get install okular poppler-data

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Can not login to Ubuntu after un-installed Byobu

Yesterday, I un-installed the long time not used Byobu. I couldn't even image that this could be the reason of why I could not login to Ubuntu 11.10 today.

 I tried many times to login as usually, however, every time, the login was aborted and the screen came back to the login screen user account list again and again.

I tried to login with my root account - fortunately, I created the root user account. When checking the file .xsession-errors under my user account home folder,  it sounds the trouble is caused by a line in ~/.profile.

~/.profile line 75: .: filename argument required
.: usage: . filename [arguments]
 
In the ~/.profile line 75, the command is as following.

 
. $(which byobu-launch) 


After I deleted the line, I could login as usual again.
It was too bad that un-install the Byobu could lead to this big trouble. It sounds for some reasons, the un-install of byobu doesn't clean up this line in the ~/.profile file!