Having found Onboard Virtual Keyboard to use with two laptops with minor key issues I wondered if someone might have some relatively straightforward steps whereby this virtual keyboard would be available at the login screen?

Currently one of the laptops being used by a grade 12 student has a fully NON-functioning keyboard thus uses an external keyboard all the time which makes it cumbersome when he wishes to take it elsewhere.

I did see a thread on an ubuntu site that spoke about gtk-greeter and being able to set a login screen that works with either Onboard or Florence virtual keyboards, however I struggled to do the steps and didn’t want to create issues. Might anyone be able to provide me with an outline of what I need to do in order to have the Onboard keyboard be accessible at login?

Hi,

At a fast food restaurant doing initial updates in Linux-Lite and wanted to say "Hello!". 

This is my first time trying Linux-Lite which I found from doing a search for a lighter desktop for my two laptops.  KDE Plasma is usually my to go desktop, but since the laptops are over 10 years old, I wanted something lighter in cpu and memory usage.  I've tried lots of distros in the past and was using Debian KDE as well as Zorin.  I recently tried Lubuntu as one of the suggested light weight distros, but I like Linux-Lite better.  Still, I'm having problems with both using VLC in a secondary monitor, some sort of QT5 bug I think.  But that is for a help thread entry.

Nice looking desktop and thanks to the hard work for those that help with it.

Got dial-up at home, so I appreciate the addition of pppconfig, as most distros have dropped support for dial up, though it is still possible to download wvdial or pppconfig from another computer and install it manually if needs be.
Glad to be here.

Hi Guys,

I am applying compiz into linux lite 4.2, all everything working like a charm, but I've found something very disturbing me,
some apps have black border in their window like in this and some other dont have any problem


the working of cube of compiz


anyone how to remove this problem?
thanks all

Sometime recently, perhaps after updating using the opening menu, Dropbox stopped syncing.  No icon showed up, and "dropbox status" from the terminalindicated it wasn't started. Now would it.  I removed, then reinstalled using the Lite Software option.  No luck.  Then I deleted all the dropbox directories, including the hidden one and reinstalled.  No luck.  I get as far as running "dropbox start -i" and downloading the daemon, and it appears to download successfully, but then it fails to launch the subsequent request for my account credentials.  No error message.  Nothing,  Any ideas?  I have Linux Lite on three other old laptops with no problems.  BTW, I obviously appreciate Linux Lite, and it has increased my disrespect for Windows.  Thank you for your efforts.

As per instructions on the pop-up window, pasting in the log from an update error which has been ongoing now for many days.


  ============ Log ===========


Hit:1 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
Ign:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/bumblebee/stable/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:3 http://archive.canonical.com bionic InRelease
Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:5 http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite diamond InRelease
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88.7 kB]
Hit:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gezakovacs/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB]
Hit:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/teejee2008/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Err:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/bumblebee/stable/ubuntu bionic Release
  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB]
Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages [552 kB]
Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 Packages [472 kB]
Get:15 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe amd64 Packages [742 kB]
Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe i386 Packages [732 kB]
Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe Translation-en [193 kB]
Reading package lists...
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/bumblebee/stable/ubuntu bionic Release' does not have a Release file.

One of my "youth" laptops is missing the enter key "cover" although currently the return/ENTER function STILL works when I simply tap the "space" where the cap should be.

I am however planning for the day when it doesn't work as while the cursor can be used for accepting various things, the return key would still be required for spacing between paragraphs in libre office.

Might someone have a straight forward step-by-step reference on how to re-map a key as a return key?

I'm not entirely new to Linux distros, but LL has me stumped on this one;

The GUI for Pithos is incomplete in that I cannot ADD-DELETE-MODIFY stations. There's no 'hot spot' to click... if you understand me here.

I tried to remove-reinstall Pithos and got the same thing.

In Ubuntu, Raspbian and Mint, it's all there for me to use, but is there an abbreviated version for LL only?

I DO have all the previous stations from the other distros all sync'd and listed, just can't modify them here in LL.

Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?

Is there any reason I need to remove old kernels? I have Linux Lite on half of a 500 GB HDD, so it has plenty of room. I don't have a lot files either, so there is a lot of empty space. Will having several old kernels impair performance? Make it start or run slower?

I'm just afraid I'll screw the removal process up. Twice I have attempted it with Lite Tweaks, but both times I cancelled. I'm confused between the headers and the images, and how many to remove. I have 5 of them on my computer currently. I see it's recommended to remove all but the last two. But the list I am presented with is rather confusing, with all those boxes to check!

Is it true that this list does not contain the current one, so I could technically check all the boxes? Or all but the latest, which would leave me with two?

In Linux Lite once you have pegged a quick launch to the taskbar at some point you may want to move it. Right now you have to right click the taskbar - panel - panel preferences - items - then find the correct launcher & then use up or down to move it left or right. For the new people, a bit difficult. There is a solution. It's the return of a feature that was in Linux Lite series ONE. (How's your memory Jerry?). In Linux Lite 1.0.6 to move a quick launch on the task bar you right click the icon - select 'move' - go to where you want it on the taskbar - (all the other icons move out of the way) and then right click in the spot you want it. Almost exactly the same way it's done in Windows Vista up to 10. A great old feature that would be excellent for a comeback. Hope it can be so as it would be excellent for new users of Linux, and people coming from another operating system.