Lotus Notes 8 - Fonts unreadable on Gutsy
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Loading ...I run Ubuntu 64-bit and have never managed to install lotus notes 8 client - the install always failed. Having just upgraded to Gutsy I thought I would give it another try. I had to run the installer a few times and install some 32-bit libs but it worked and there was notes 8 in the menu. Great. But then I logged in and the fonts were unreadable. You can easily change the default fonts and by changing them to Arial I did get something readable - with a magnifying glass! Then I found a post (sorry - lost the link) that said add Display_font_adjustment=5 to notes.ini
This worked (I ended up turning this down to a value of 0.5 and text was still very readable) for most windows but the login, spell check and error message boxes were all still the original unreadable font. Turns out that the default font is Luxi which is available in the “ttf-xfree86-nonfree” package.
Now at least all notes windows are readable.
November 1st, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Does the notes 8 client on linux connect to a domino 7 server?
November 2nd, 2007 at 8:39 am
Yes it does. There are 3 of us running 8 client - all on different distros and all connected to (linux) domino 7 server.
November 7th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Do you remember which 32-bit libs you installed? I try to install the client under Gutsy 64-bit but continously fail.
Thanx,
Matthias
November 13th, 2007 at 9:11 am
Matthias,
These are the libs I have installed over time - some may not be required but I think this is all the libs I have installed manually.
Andy
libalsatoss.so.0.0.0
libaoss.so.0.0.0
libart_lgpl_2.so.2.3.17
libart_lgpl.so.2.2.0
libavahi-client.so.3.2.2
libavahi-common.so.3.4.3
libavahi-glib.so.1.0.1
libbonoboui-2.so.0.0.0
libdbus-1.so.3.2.0
libdbus-glib-1.so.2.1.0
libeel-2.so.2.20.0
libgcrypt.so.11.2.2
libgnome-desktop-2.so.2.3.13
libgnome-keyring.so.0.1.1
libgnome-menu.so.2.1.16
libgnomeprint-2-2.so.0.1.0
libgnomeprintui-2-2.so.0.1.0
libgnomeui-2.so.0.2000.0
libgnomevfs-2.so.0.1800.1
libgnutls-extra.so.13.0.9
libgnutls-openssl.so.13.0.9
libgnutls.so.13.0.9
libMrm.so.3.0.2
libpangohack.so.0.0
libstartup-notification-1.so.0.0.0
libtasn1.so.3.0.6
libUil.so.3.0.2
libXm.so.3.0.2
November 27th, 2007 at 4:39 am
A side question but did you have eclipse installed ?
what where the fonts like in that ?
john
November 27th, 2007 at 10:28 am
John - Didn’t have eclipse installed
February 25th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Andy,
I’m new to 64bit Ubuntu. How did you go about installing the 32bit version of the the libraries you specified above? I can’t seem to find them in apt…
Thanks,
David
February 27th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
David,
Sadly most of the 32 and 64-bit ubuntu packages try to install into /usr/lib so installing the 32-bit packages would overwrite the 64-bit ones. I used a firefox search engine that searched for the ubuntu package with the correct library in. Then the 32-bit version had to be downloaded, the correct libraries extracted from this file (using dpkg), and finally copy the 32-bit libs required to /usr/lib32 so that they could be found.
Not an easy process but I’ve now been using Notes 8 for over 4 months and, whilst there are still some problems (it doesn’t open attachments automatically) I rarely have to go back to using Notes on windows.
Hope this helps
Andy
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:10 am
Hi. Quick question. I managed to install lotus on my ubuntu amd64 box but I got strange error about VFS: error parameters when I try to attach a file. Any clue?
Thanks in advance
G.Pietro
September 4th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Thanks for the tip on the fonts. I also had another problem, and it was permissions. I had to:
sudo chmod a+rx -R /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/*
sudo chmod a+r -R /etc/lotus
The first time I ran it, it said it didn’t have permissions (notes executable) so I gave myself permissions. After that it will complain about notes.ini. I realized that it created a folder “lotus” in my home directory. It was a “copy” of the one in /etc. But the permissions were wrong. So after fixing permissions in /etc/lotus, I just removed the folder in my home directory. Ran it again and everything worked (except for the fonts, which you gave me the tip about what package to install).