Change locale in ubuntu

Sometimes we need to change the locale for some testing purpose or general shift to new. To change the locale in Windows is accomplished by Control Panel -> Regional Settings.

To change the same in the Ubuntu there are set of commands available.

To see current locale open terminal and run command 'locale'

If you know the locale you want to change to you should do following steps

1.add the locale in /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local

Eg : en_US.UTF-8

2. Regenerate the locale

dpkg-reconfigure locales

3. update locale using

update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Reboot the machine and again check the locale. It will be changed.

If you want to see the lost of supported locale

open /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED

We can make all the locales. Open terminal and run following commands

xyz@local: sudo su

root@local: cat /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED > /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local

root@local: dpkg-reconfigure locales

root@local: update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Reboot the machine and we are done.

Note : It will change the language of the PC so be careful Don't use this unless you are sure what you are about to do. In any case you can again set your locale to default and reboot.

Google Chrome(ium) on Linux

Finally a much awaited browser chrome has been released for the linux and mac platforms too. Not the stable one but for the developer so that the feed back can be received. The name is chromium a open source project behind the google chrome. Being an open source full code with v8 is available for download.

There are many things that are missing in this early version rather the version for the developer. Like you tube video , privacy setting and some other features are missing in this developer unstable edition. But the point is that they have come with suah a nice look and feel for linux and mac also.

If you are not scared of the incomplete, unpredictable, and potentially crashing software go on and click one of following to run chromium on linux

1. 32 bit chromium
2. 64 bit chromium

The first look on ubuntu 9.04

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It looks pretty cool and much faster. All most all the things are working ok. I posted this blog using the chrome. Thanks google for a nice and much stable.

"Installing Google Chrome will add the Google repository so your system will automatically keep Chrome up to date. " So it seems to be well planned so the user have not to bother about downloading and installing the new build.

So my experience .. its awesome cool and much stable too. Happy to see the google chrome on my ubuntu.

Firefox 3 and fonts issue in ubuntu

Sometimes Firefox does not display fonts properly and when the element was inspected it may have the style for fonts that say it to be rendered in arial or some other font. Its very annoying but it's the fact. The fact is we spend much of time on web reading the text so its the most important part of the web.

The best way is to install Microsoft fonts from synaptic or run this sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts in terminal.

Restart the browser. Now the output will be as desired

If you still have the problem in viewing the page and specific to the fonts the reason could be the permissions to the fonts files and directories. Check the permission in your .fonts folder in home directory. May be the read rights missing. Change it accordingly and bingo you fix the problem.


Enjoy the best browser :)

gOS a new look and feel for your pc/book

gOs is the new Linux-based platform that builds on top of Ubuntu and comes with built in Google apps like GMail, Google Maps, Google Docs, Youtube, Facebook, Wikipedia, Google Mail, Google Maps, Open Office 2.3, Rhythmbox, Xine player, Gimp, Firefox, Pidgin, Skype etc.

The Enlightenment theme and widget like feature on the sidebar make it more user friendly. It also includes Open office, gimp and thunderbird.

So may be due to this they have added g for google or may be for green as this OS is green.

Ubuntu has changed the way user look at linux. They have made it more user friendly but still when it come to user interface they had done nothing good. They have added the orange and different colors to the gnome default lookn nothing more. Look at LinuxMint a good user experience. Now the gOS with very rich user experience. It look more like MAC but still it pleased the end users. It shows almost all the new features of the Ubuntu with new finish looks.

One must give a try to this for a good interface



Go to gOS or direct to download page. One can also view the screen shot and features.

Installing / adding fonts in ubuntu

Ubuntu comes with variety of fonts. But if we still have an urge for installing some extra fonts from windows or some other fonts how we do it. To add the fonts in ubuntu is very easy and can be done in few steps.

Fonts normally get installed in /usr/share/fonts/truetype. Simple way of adding font is to make one folder in said path and copy the font files in it. To open this folder with root access type sudo nautalius. This will open the file explorer in root mode.

The other way is to add the fonts in /home//.fonts

To refresh or update font cache run sudo fc-cache -f -v.