Opera 7.54 is my default browser. While all Opera browsers are the best of the lot, 7.54 has a special trick up its sleeve - the ability to reduce the tab size to a few pixels wide. This feature is absent in all later Opera versions, besides all other browsers.
Installing Wine allowed Opera 7.54 to be run, since this version is not available on Linux. Wine unfortunately makes it difficult to change the default font, resulting in unpleasantness as seen in the screenshot below.
The only way to overcome this is to either install a Windows theme - not just any theme, but a theme that also includes a font file (ttf), or install a font. Installing a theme is easier, since Wine offers an interface to do so. Notably, while many site offer themes, not all of them contain a font, so a lot of trial and error can be expected. Installing a font is more direct, yet Wine does not allow any interface to do so. The easiest way out is to copy font files from the Linux installation's fonts folder to the Wine installation's font folder. Since Linux also contains ttf files, there is little incompatibility encountered. The Linux fonts are stored in the /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ folder, and the Wine fonts are in /home/
The much better results are next
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Wine and Opera
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Easiest way to install a bunch of
standard fonts in Wine is
wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks allfonts
That might do the trick...
Thanks for the tip. But the whole point of the blog is to use Linux while avoiding the terminal as much as possible.
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