Lotus Notes on Natty

You need to fire Lotus Notes with a wrapper to get it up and running properly on Ubuntu Natty.

See...
http://usablesoftware.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/lotus-notes-8-5-2-fp2-in-ubuntu-11-04-natty-narwhal-64bit-beta-1/#comment-168
https://github.com/sgh/lotus-notes_gtk2.23.3

...for more information. You also need to have 'libgtk2.0-dev' installed through apt-get or synaptic to get the make script to run properly.

So, in a terminal (wget's are a single line...):

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
mkdir -p /tmp/notesfix
cd /tmp/notesfix


wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/sgh/lotus-notes_gtk2.23.3/raw/d3492c997bc7a92b895fa1369d4743a8e20b56b5/Makefile


wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/sgh/lotus-notes_gtk2.23.3/raw/d3492c997bc7a92b895fa1369d4743a8e20b56b5/libnotesgtkfix.c


wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/sgh/lotus-notes_gtk2.23.3/raw/d3492c997bc7a92b895fa1369d4743a8e20b56b5/notes-wrapper


make
chmod +x notes-wrapper 
sudo cp notes-wrapper libnotesgtkfix.so /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/LotusNotes8.5.desktop


...where you have to change the line
Exec=/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/framework/../notes %F
with
Exec=/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/framework/../notes-wrapper %F