Tips to make Deepin more enjoyable
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acortes
deepin
2016-11-28 13:50
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Edited by acortes at 2016-11-27 13:55

Hello Deepin Community,

I have a few tips for everyone to improve on the Deepin out-of-the-box experience. Once you have installed Deepin to your computer, you may notice that the font rendering is not ideal. I discovered a quick and easy fix that I hope will work for everyone. To fix the default font rendering, open Deepin Terminal and run the following command:
  1. mkdir -p $HOME/.config/fontconfig/
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Then run the following to open a new file in gedit:
  1. gedit $HOME/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
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In your new gedit file, copy and paste the following:




  1.   
  2.    rgb
  3.   


  4.   
  5.    true
  6.   


  7.   
  8.    hintslight
  9.   


  10.   
  11.    true
  12.   

  13.   
  14.    
  15.       lcddefault
  16.    
  17.   
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Ensure you save the file and then log out. When you log back in you should notice that the font rendering throughout the system has improved significantly.

Next is fixing a possible bluetooth issue. I have a bluetooth speaker that I like to connect to for streaming music from my computer. Unfortunately, when I first connected to it the sound output from the speaker sounded very muffled. Some research shows that the sound was being streamed to the speaker as a "headset" rather than the much higher quality A2DP. You'll notice that the Deepin Control Center has no option to configure bluetooth sound for A2DP streaming. To fix this, I searched through the Debian wiki and found that one must do the following:
  1. apt-get install pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pavucontrol bluez-firmware
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Some of these items should already be installed, however, if memory serves pavucontrol is what is needed to configure bluetooth streaming for A2DP. After running the above command, it may be necessary to restart the bluetooth and pulseaudio services:
  1. service bluetooth restart
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  1. killall pulseaudio
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Now you should be able to configure A2DP bluetooth streaming via Pulse Audio Volume Control. You'll see a new launch icon in your Launcher overview.

Lastly, you might experience slow mirror downloads from the Deepin default mirror. You can fix this by editing your /etc/apt/sources.list file as follows:
  1. sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
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Comment out the default Deepin mirror line by placing a hashtag before it. Then, from https://www.deepin.org/mirror.html, choose your nearest community mirror, right click on the link and click "Copy link address." Back in your sources.list file add another line as follows (example, your mirror selection may differ):
  1. # USA mirror:
  2. deb http://mirror.jmu.edu/pub/deepin/ unstable main contrib non-free
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Save the file and run apt-get update. Enjoy your Deepin!
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152******14
deepin
2016-12-03 10:06
#21
https://bbs.deepin.org/post/132507
冒昧的請求官方把這個帖子翻譯成中文在貼吧上發上來。謝謝

谷歌浏览器有翻译插件
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makkon
deepin
2016-12-03 18:55
#22
Fix bad font rendering in Deepin 15 https://bbs.deepin.org/post/130558#Font%2Brendering%2Bin%2BDeepin
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ambiya
deepin
2016-12-03 23:52
#23
https://bbs.deepin.org/post/132507
Thank you very much for your contribution, we will try your solution in 15.4 for better render effec ...

When will deepin 15.4 be released?
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flurbius
deepin
2016-12-07 09:23
#24
Wow I just posted about the bluetooth issue in another thread - I guess I will have to try using pulse to fix it - the last time I did that though was on Mint and it killed all the audio and caused me to abandon all the debian/ubuntu based distros (until I tried deepin that is).  Im still not convinced though and as well as deepin I am currently test driving Manjaro, Apricity and RemixOS.  there are about a dozen that I have rejected for various reasons and I still have Windows (until I work out how to transform my installation into an installer) and Fedora which is my goto OS because of its stability and capabilities.

Personally, I wish I were able to learn Chinese easily. The pronunciation doesn't seem too difficult, but reading and writing looks to be very challenging.

Actually the written language is very challenging I live in Taiwan and in public I am virtually illiterate but dont underestimate the difficulty of spoken chinese, the first thing is which Chinese, there are more than a dozen 'Chinese' languages and they are quite different think about the differences between say German, French, Spanish and English.  There are some shared vocabulary and grammar and some peculiarities.  Next you have to deal with tones, Im not sure if they are all tonal but the two main languages Mandarin (5 tones) and Cantonese  (9 tones ?!?) both are.  So where in English we might use tone in a gradual (whole sentence) way to change a statement into a question or to add sarcasm, the Chinese will have different tones in each word  and they will mean completely different things.  To pour salt on the wound Some of the tones are undetectable to (at least my) western ears - the syllable ma can mean mother, horse or something much ruder.  It is interesting that the Chinese languages share the same writing system - so a Cantonese speaker could write a book which can be read by a Mandarin (only) speaker, more or less as easily as by a Cantonese speaker.

By the way I am also a native English and Spanish speaker - well almost , my spanish accent is native (I have had latinos pick my country of birth and a few even picked the province) but my vocabulary and written language is not so good.  Also my English is Australian (Strine) English, which is unintelligible to some North Americans :-)
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amitchouksey
deepin
2017-01-26 07:13
#25
Hello, I tried the workaround for font rendering but it didn't make any noticeable difference. Anything else could be done?
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jarp53
deepin
2017-01-31 17:47
#26
the only problem i have now is that when i hover over the Dock Bar the font is very small and it did not use to be that way, but the it looks real good on the web sites so is not a total win but it is an  improvement; also if i could raise the size in the boot loader would be great  
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黑色
deepin
2017-02-01 06:54
#27
maybe we can put things together and get 'em published as "fonts-conf package" of something........
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