Hello All and Happy New Year,

Well...  Where to start?  I'm pretty much the complete noob when it comes to Linux. However, LL has already won my heart, despite the multiple problems I've had since starting a couple of days ago. None of the problems were due to LL, and I'll probably give an account of one of them later, as others may find it helpful.  In fact, LL was a dream to download, prepare (Etcher) and install, and I was highly impressed. The problems really started after I decided to split my drive, reformat and reinstall, but again, they turned out to be nothing to do with LL, which was doing its best all along.

I started in computers with CP/M - built up a CP/M system (Yep, soldered all the chips!) with 64KB & 2 x 8" 1.2MB floppy drives -- and MON'09 - Motorola's 6809 SDK, and was a DOS geek for a while... Spent many hours writing Batch files.

When I first used an -ix version it was CLI-only and ran on a 286 (for those who can relate), but though I was very impressed, had no reason or budget to buy a system back then, so never continued with it. In typical human fashion, the best marketed product won despite being inferior, but Windows may have finally had its day.  I've tried one or two Linux installs in the last year or two, but never felt any affinity for them. That all changed with Lite, so I'm really looking forward to getting deeper into it.

FWIW, I'm really good at breaking things, making mistakes (like forgetting to check my Spam folder for the Authentication e-mail  :-[ ) and finding bugs - and offering ideas on occasion, so I expect you'll hear more from me.  I look forward to participating, and will try not to bug you with questions that are already answered here or in the manual!  :o

Regards,
Al

Running LL 4.6, printer is a Samsung network printer, model ProXpress M4070FR,
and is connected to my router via ethernet cable.

When I first got the printer, I powered it up and connected the ethernet cable.
Then I started the computer and the printer automatically installed, and worked fine.
No problems with the printer for some time, but recently (may be when I upgraded
to LL 4.6) the printer keeps uninstalling itself when I turn it off.

I usually keep the printer powered off because I don't use it that much,
so I really have no idea how long ago the problem started.
But before this problem, every time I started the computer (with the printer off),
the printer was still installed.

But now, whenever I start the computer (with the printer off), there is no printer
installed. If I then power up the printer, there is still no printer installed)
But if I reboot the computer with the printer powered up, the printer again
automatically installs itself.

I have never had a printer that, once installed, uninstalled itself.
This may have nothing to do with a LL update or any other update,
but I'm stymied as to what to try next.

Any suggestions ?

Faulty drive tried cloning, but didn't work. Where is the critical data for ext4 fs are stored? my drive size is exactly 31,406,948,352 bytes. Only first 512mibibytes seems not to be enough. No partition table just ext4 directly on the drive. The drive is filled with raw music without any headers. So photorec won't work. the drive is detected only untill I try to copy a lot of data (1gb+) off. Copying 512mb at time and connecting them to about 32gb image didn't work. Since I am doing this for personal use only even partitial recovery would be ok. Tried to open the whole image with audacity but the music jumps between multiple files because of lack of filesystem to manage the data. So I can copy data off the drive but getting all data the filesystem needs is my target now.

I haven't had an update for LL 4.6 since 11 days. Are there no updates or is something wrong?

In my small office which has one decent AMD Debian desktop, one Debian Lamp server, one Winodws 10 box, and four private LAN Debian 10 clients on less robust hardware I have used ssh x11 forwarding for a long time. After recently upgrading all the clients and the larger host machine to Debian 10 I decided to stick with wayland on all of them once I figured out the various configurations for ssh x11 forwarding. Wayland does not break ssh x11 forwarding contrary to the griping you read on the internet. It just requires a different praxis. Wayland ssh clients will need a nested Xserver (Xephry is easy and reliable) and wayland hosts will need the GDK_BACKEND=x11 preset string. I use gnome-boxes regularly this way to keep the CPU/RAM tax of virtualization on my bigger host machine. Below is a list of example commands for all the possible configurations.


https://www.dbts-analytics.com/notesxfwdgb.html

TC

[member=5414]firenice03[/member]
Thankyou for the link you gave in reply #93 on the KDE vs XFCE thread
It made an interesting read, and for those who didn't see it click here:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevange...76065a26d2

Does anyone know where I could download a 2018 version of KDE Neon? All I could find on trawling the internet was the 2019 version.

The reason I ask this: I would like to compare KDE Neon directly with LL4.6 on our Asus X71Q, which is a machine at the opposite end of the power-spectrum compared to the two machines used in the above link for the KDE vs XFCE investigation. The 2018 version is directly comparable to LL4.6, e.g. both use kernel 4.15.  If anything promising comes of it, I'll post the results on this forum.


Many thanks for any help with this.

Using terminal, I wanted to create a bootable USB stick with another distro on it - it works fine when I use LL3.8.
But, when I do this in LL4.6, I get the following:

I'm playing around with Linux Lite 4.6.  Many of your Ubuntu based Distros come with a "Check Media" feature on the live ISO.  The first thing I don't understand is why all Linux Distros don't have this feature.  The second thing I don't understand is how the feature is put together.  For example.  As I was running it on my Linux Lite 4.6 DVD I noticed that it doesn't tell you the results.  When it stops it simply tells you to press any key to reboot your system.  I was messing around with it in Virtualbox, I was running it in virtualbox, and I wanted to bring up my terminal.  So I pressed ctrl+alt+t.  Not realizing I had the virtualbox window selected, the Check Media began showing me what it was doing in the background.  It was running md5sum checks.  At least when It was in that mode it told me my results.  Why are these results hidden by default?

But I can't figure out how to find the answer via Search. How do I use the underlined right-mouse-button shortcuts in Thunar? For example, the Rename function has an underlined shortcut of "R", but using lower or upper-case R just opens up what looks like a search field in the bottom of the pane. Ditto for Properties, etc. I have searched for tips on using Thunar in general but still haven't found this, so I must be looking in the wrong place or using the wrong search terms.

Thanks!

I would like to add or at least change some emblems (found under the file's Properties). I just discovered these, which seem to function like the labels I used to use when I used a Mac. I set up my mp3s with a few different labels on the Mac, so I started going through the emblems in LL to do something similar. I need to get an emblem that says "don't like" or something similar. At the moment, all I can find that works well visually is the the red exclamation point for "Important", and that works, but it seems kludgy.

How do you customize these? Can I change an emblem's text? The graphic?

Thanks?