So one day one wakes up and thinks about getting hat about a “new” operating system? So I installed OpenSuse. It was the worst two days of my life.

So, back to Ubuntu Dapper Drake. It seems that both Edgy, Feisty and all other distros featuring the latest crappy Xorg server don’t play along with the louzy videocard bundled with my laptop. Not even when I use a Dapper working xorg.conf. To hell with it. At least while I don’t get a new laptop.

Learning from previous instalations, all things went smooth, except when I had to install a Citrix client. ICA Client version 10.0 requires Openmotif and there were no sources in sight with the appropriate package. But the package exists in Ubuntu’s package listings. Next step would be obviously installing the client, just to notice it just won’t run with the following error:


Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Error: Aborting: no fontset found


a quick peek at the support forum pointed me to the need of performing a


xset fp rehash


everytime and before wfica or wfcmgr are run. It also looks like there are a lot of other common problems known to exist with. Here’s a link to a page with some information on these Citrix ICA client issues (out of which this script is a real winner, as it will patch and configure permanently almost every aspect of this application – it’s designed for Ubuntu 6.10 and later, but nothing a little hack won’t fix).