Well with LL, that is

Registered 26/03/2014

i am back resovling issues my wifi printers say the online at machine but pc says not online.

Linux noob, MS power user for 20+ years, LL for life at this point (3 months now).  Have reinstalled LL 3 times now for various reasons (moving to different partitions mainly, and preserving my win vista partition until I back up almost 10 years of documents/misc on it).  Has worked amazingly well each time, but I am a tinkerer, so I have added unsupported repositories, finally found synaptic (it's kinda hidden, why?), edited config files, and ran unknown cli commands cut and pasted from the internet.  Here is my current problem:

Latest install (3.6 upgraded to 3.8), everything was running as normal.  I mess around with a lot of stuff (I run pi-hole, for example), and I may have "released" my DHCP lease in my router settings (I'm not 100% clear on what that means, I was probably trying to fix something else, following an online "recipe").  Now, in LL, it connects to the network, but no browser will load, AND apt-get update will not connect either - connected with no connectivity.  Of course windows and other distros all have normal connectivity. 

Questions:  Is there a way to completely reset my internet settings?  I'm not opposed to reinstalling the OS, but...  can I reinstall in the same partition, or will it just leave whatever corrupted config files are there?  (I do have "spare" partitions I can use...  see ya Ubuntu, ha ha told you...)

Obviously (in retrospect) the DNS settings in /etc/resolv.conf were incorrect, the system was looking to 127.0.0.1 (home) for DNS lookups for some reason.  I was not able to install nscd... until I fixed this.  Did not work the first time ...  not used to, and don't like non-GUI editors, they have nothing to offer me.  Yet.  Thanks!! 

Hello,

I am looking for suggestions for an offline garden planning software for LL, that can save as a jpg or png ?

I wanted one that can allow -

- adding of shapes (squares and rectangles)
- has plant add feature, has custom plant add feature (for any missing in software)
- add features for, paths, gravel, pond, rocks, garden furniture.
- has a mode for planning greenhouse and internal features.

I'm having a heck of time trying to write a file from Linux to Windows 10.

I've installed Samba on Linux Lite and I've got it up and running to the point where I can see the Linux computer from the Windows 10 computers. I actually have 3 Windows 10 computers and I can see the shared files and folders on the Linux machine from Windows 10 with no problem.  I can also read and write files to the Linux machine from the Windows machines.

What I can't do is see the Windows machines or shared folders on the Linux machine.  In short, I can't read or write a file to a Windows machine from the Linux machine.  I've been trying for over a week now with no progress.  I'm even writing a program in Python to write files to the Windows machines, but even that won't work.  I don't even get an error.  It just acts like it wrote the file but the file never shows up at the destination path.

In fact, this is what I really need to do.  I need to have Python write files to the Windows computers.  But as things are I can't do anything from Linux.  The only way to get a file over to Windows is to go to a Windows machines and read it from there.  That works, but that's no good.

Here's a copy of my smb.conf file:

I'm not a great gamer (Supertuxkart is about as far as I go), but my 13-year-old son is.  He's a great fan of Steam, though uses the Steam app  from the Ubuntu repository on LL3.8.

However, a while ago, I came accross a distro called Steam OS on the Distrowatch website.  It made me wonder whether Steam OS gives any advantages over the Steam app, for those besotted with gaming  :o

Would it be worth dual-booting Steam OS with LL?

As ever, I'm Interested to hear your opinions and experiences ...

I've noticed I have a lot of hidden folders with the recycle symbol on them.
They are duplicates of my regular folders.
I can't open them.
When I try, the "Open with..." comes up, with this statement... Open filename.htm~ and other files of type "backup file" with:

I'm not familiar with this file and wonder if there is any cause to fret and worry.

Thx
Amigo

hi,
after installing steam using the default installer,when i open it, it does nothing.
im new to linux os and still learning in some other way,i stepped away of windows os'es due to privacy and compatibilty
i have an old desktop that suits for linux lite,i have some games bought in steam that i want to restore in this os,but im struggling so much to slove this problem and cant find any solutions for now and the only way i can assure for help is this team
more power guys

hope i can get replies and solutions in here since i started to like this os for now :-*

Hi folks,

I've finished building a very basic 4.0 ISO. Most of the apps are in place, there are some exceptions (see below), understand that this is very early in the release.

Standard Information:

- There will be no UEFI in 4.x
- There is only 64bit ISO, 32bit ISO ended in 3.x
- All Linux Lite applications are now under Menu, Settings.

Known issues:

- Progress text is not visible on installation slides.
- Wine, there is no bionic repo for WineHQ yet, so do not attempt to install Wine via Lite Software.
- Spotify - don't install in Lite Software yet - NOW WORKING 03/04/18
- Help Manual has not been updated.
- Menu, System, Printers is not working ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc...ug/1757901 ) 27/03/18 - now FIXED after latest Install Updates.

What needs testing?

- Check filetypes open with correct application: png, bmp, gif, jpg, pdf, zip, rar, deb, .tar.gz, .txt and office formats etc
- Both on VM's and real hardware.
- New Linux Lite applications: Lite Sounds, Lite Desktop, Lite Auto Login (Menu, Settings)
- Lite Widget, look under Autostart Applications.
- All applications in the Menu, with a strict attention to details on Linux Lite applications.
- Please thoroughly test Timeshift (Menu, System, Timeshift).
- Start Up, Shutdown times.
- Provide general feedback about new theme and layout in some places, eg. Menu.
- Any other feedback you would like to add.

You will see and use things before they are made publicly official, so all feedback is to remain confidential (pm me the feedback)

If you'd like to be a serious tester, please PM me here - https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/profile/?u=2



Thank you

Jerry

I did an update on a 3.2 and a 3.6 version of a VMWARE machine...and had issues after restart. Nothing except minor programs would work. So, I have done this several times since. Installed a fresh copy of 3.8 as a virtual machine (two different versions of vmware so far - 10 & 14) and then shut it down so I could make a copy of the fresh version. Then I restarted and INSTALLED all the LATEST UPDATES...and restarted...BAM!...nothing works. I get a consistent "Indicator Plugin unexpectedly left the panel" error. I can't do much more than that at this point. So SOMETHING in the latest update is killing vmware machines.