Kubuntu Notes

Gutsy Gibbon

Fuzzy Fonts

After upgrading to gutsy, fonts might appear a little fuzzy. To fix this, go to System Settings > Appearance > Fonts and change the "Use anti-aliasing" box to "Enabled". Then click on the configure button and turn off sub-pixel hinting.

Compiz

Follow this tutorial: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=601310

You may need to turn on composite mode for X. To do this, you can run nvidia-xconfig --composite, which as far as I can tell just puts this in your xorg.conf:

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Restart X when you're done.

Make sure you enable the Window Decorations plugin in the compiz configuration manager, or you won't have borders for your windows!

The KDE pager and taskbar don't work with compiz. Install these instead: kicker-compiz, taskbar-compiz. Here's a kubuntu gutsy theme for emerald: http://tinyurl.com/2typn9. And here's some widget information: http://compiz.org/Desktop_Screenlets.