Japanese and Korean fonts in Ubuntu

Gnome terminal is known for being a resource hog. When it reached 130 megabytes for a recently-opened terminal I looked into it.

Thanks to Gnome Live memory reduction this was fairly easy.

Using cat /proc/nnn/smaps I could see Korean and Japanese fonts using lots of memory. I don't usually need these...

Try searching for "batang", "kochi" and "uming"- I've removed these from my Ubuntu.

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SSH web proxy through a firewall

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Rather a buzz-word heavy title, but if you need to sort out decent web access from behind a firewall/proxy, use:

ssh -ND 9999 user@server.net

The web browser should then be configured to use the proxy "localhost:9999".

X processes remote and local

Like this person

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, I'm also finding running firefox on a remote box just opens a window on the local box... Hmm...