ProFont is my favorite monospaced programming font. You can see it in this shot here: For my own future reference, here’s how you get ProFont working in Debian Etch: cd tmp wget http://www.tobiasjung.net/download.php?file=ProFontWinTweaked.zip wget http://www.tobiasjung.net/download.php?file=profont-x11.tar.gz unzip ProFontWinTweaked.zip tar xzvf profont-x11.tar.gz sudo cp ProFontWinTweaked/ProFontWindows.ttf /usr/local/share/fonts sudo cp profont-x11/* /usr/local/share/fonts sudo fc-cache -fv sudo mkfontdir /usr/local/share/fonts Finally, add the following line to /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the Files section FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts" then restart X.

I’m a bit of a no-mouse-freak (at least at heart – it’s hard to kick that rodent habit). At work I use Linux along with a Window Manager called wmii that tries to make use of the mouse unnecessary. It works great for terminals and emacs but the big thorn in my side is Firefox. Until today. Press the ' key and you can search for a link containing the text you enter. Read more