My linuxlite desktop icons are not there after distro upgrade of Ubuntu. Only the wallpaper is there on screen and cursor moving.Right click also not working.
I can access terminal by  alt+Ctrl+F3 and terminal works fine.

8) ok i have a new Pc monitor , its a "LG 27MP38VQ‑B ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ Full HD" . its really nice , no problem so far on linux lite 3.8.

but the the display say 22" , instead of 27" . so far this is not a problem visually, just wondering if i can fix it, do i need to download something ?, like a driver ?.
how can i get it to display it at 27" .

here is a screen shot, of my desktop. hope it show up.
thank you , hugs . if the image show up, please let me know, plus what image sites do you recommend if it does not, so i can edit this post , again , a big hugs and thank you.

Hi Linux Lite Followers,

as a relative novice to Linux in general and Linux Lite in particular forgive me if I seem to be asking naive questions.  I have spent most of my professional time on computers, mostly Windows-based, and have just turned to Linux since I have a little time to spare/kill, having retired recently.  I am married, have two children and four grand-children, and there are nine computers of different make, model and power in the house, plus a couple of smartphones.  I live in Germany.
So, this is the environment I am in.  I have some elderly hardware (has grown old with me ), and the more recent O/Ss are just too demanding for a Pentium-M, for instance.  Consequently I have looked around for a less consuming, yet applicable environment and found Linux Lite.  My 14-year old DELL Latitude D800 with 1.5 GB memory and a 60 GB HDD seems to be quite happy with it - even XP didn't run so smoothly.

Of course there are some snags I have run into, some I which I have been able to overcome, some are still there.  So I will post them as they arise.

Thanks for bearing with me  !

captnemo

The lastest upgrade has broken both the new installation of 3.8 as the 3.6 version that I had running in Virtualbox. I looks that the UFW is actively blocking some traffic and a failure to deal with the absence of GPUs.
Both happened after update/upgrade on VBox 5.1 and 5.2.
Also during the OS boot some errors appear (booterrors.png), please check the Images.zip attached.

I've been using this distribution for some years now for making slick and fast development vms and I have had no issues so far but I'm starting to have the feeling that this distribution is becoming bloated with all the whistles and bells that make good distributions suck. Do you agree ?

I think I'm going back to the old days of installing a server distribution and on top installing a window manager.

> > >

my Uncle had this old PC , a dell , 10 years old, used to be a windows XP home, well i installed linux lite 3,8.
its old , it runs slow , its a 32bit desktop. runs good .
he is buying a new PC and Printer. interestingly enough my old Uncle is using linux just fine(with my help) ha ha .
now the challenge is to get his lexmark X2350 to work , at least print stuff, its a "all-in-one" printer , (scans and prints) .
i know its a paper weight , i like to see if i can get it to work .
i know back in the day , dells printers was a re branded lexmark printer.
is there a way to maybe get his printer to work ?. maybe a driver for it ?.

i say thanks to all those who reply and help, i know printers are a pain.
but ohhhhhh the challenge .  8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

The updated Virtualbox now supports shared folders. I am using the 4.13.0-38 kernel and it works fine. Just a FYI.

On my LL laptop, I have 3 accounts, one for me (the admin) and two others for two family members.

A family member was logged into his account, none of the other accounts were logged in. I needed to open one of his folders as admin (long story, he was there with me, I was doing this with his permission). So I right clicked on the folder and went to "Open As Administrator" and it asked for password, and I put in my root password. It said it was incorrect. I tried this several times, and I checked that caps lock was off. I can only conclude that it wasn't letting me open it as admin while logged in under his account instead of mine. Is that the expected behavior?

I am trying to install Linux Lite 3.8 32-bit on a Compaq Presario SR1610NX (3200+ AMD Sempron 1.8 GHz, 80GBs storage, and Integrated ATI Radeon XPRESS 200, BIOS 3.33 8/17/05) I recently upgraded the 256MBs RAM to 4 GBs.

The current OS is Windows XP Home Edition, but after trying to install Linux Lite with a USB ( I used Rufus to create the bootable USB), I can't even load up XP anymore. I tried to recover XP, but that wouldn't work either. I don't want XP on it, though. I want Linux Lite. I used Rufus to create the bootable USB.

So here's the real problem. I start the Presario. I hit Esc for the blue boot menu and choose the option - Hard Drive Group - USB-HHD0: Lexar USB Flash. Then I choose Start Linux Lite 3.8 32-bit. After that, it takes me to a yellow screen with a feather on it, but that is as far as it will go. I tried just waiting to see if it would eventually load up, but it does not. I waited hours. Any ideas??

Also, I did look through the forum for similar problems. I saw one about a yellow feather screen, but it did not help me.

Hello all! I'm just getting started in computer repair, and I decided to install Linux Lite on my first customer's pc. Wish me luck!

Howdy!

I'm trying to install 3.8 on my Lenovo Ideapad Yoga 11s and have been running into a few problems. First, I had to put the machine into legacy mode via BIOS to make it accept USB booting. Second, after I thought I installed LL on my hard drive I tried to boot up without the install USB and my computer no longer sees my hard drive at all, not for booting not even as an option in the boot menu. Third, when I boot off the USB now and try to access the hard drive I get the error message "Can't mount file."

Any idea on how to troubleshoot this? I ran sudo fdisk -l and got these results
Device    Boot  Start      End              Sectors      Size      ID  Type
/dev/sdal *      2048        999423        997376      487m    83    Linux
/dev/sda2      1001470  250068991  249067522  118.8G  5    Extended
/dev/sda5      1001472  250068991  249067520  118.8G  8e    Linux LVM