Hello,

unsure if its the correct section, the bash section says for tutorials and code, and it is a question so I was not sure.

Just starting with this section of book (Linux Bible), here is the screenshot of the PATH echo in LL 3.2




The first 2 and the last 1 in the PATH there are no bin folders here.

It is saying in the book to add your own commands or shell scripts to the

Yet another question!

I had this same issue when this computer was running Win XP and I applied a fix in Win XP at that time (I've forgotten exactly what it was, however moot point as now it's running LL 3.4).

I tried the suggestions in this link: https://cederlys.wordpress.com/2010/07/1...in-ubuntu/

I went through the steps it mentioned and got the info on my pointer:
AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint Stick id=12 so I put the necessary info from this line into the line he states in his blog.

There was NO change, in fact it seemed worse.  Regardless of whether I use a USB mouse or the trackpad at times the pointer works fine then suddenly it will drift off to the upper left and sit in the corner and not budge.  I'm unable to get it to move either with the external mouse or the track pad.  It will remain unresponsive for a minute or so then return to normal function.  It's liveable albeit annoying 

Any suggestions?

I did make a system report early this morning although I'm unsure whether it uploaded to the database.  I saved it on the computer and if it will provide any info I can add it to this thread.

Well,

I bit off more than I could chew on. But that's quite normal for one who want's to go to fast when he just learned how to walk.

Okay, what's the problem...

Like my older posts, I'm still triyng to figure out how to get my wifi up and running on my laptop on LL3.8

I did some searching here and there. Tried some possible solutions untill yesterday when I stumbled upon one that told me about Kernel 4.12.
So, as noob as I am. downloaded and installed it. restarted my laptop and BAM!
No connection or what so ever.

So, now I'm on my Windows desktop writing this post. This one is next to go cold-turkey and meet LL. But first solve some problems.

If there's anyone amongst you who would/can make some time to give me a step-by-step instruction for this matter, he/she would make me a very happy man.

Is there an easy way to get rid of splash screen during boot/shutdown?

I would rather see messages scroll by so I can tell if something useful is happening or if the system has hung somewhere during the boot process. 

Thanks in advance.

I've duplicated the answer below so you don't need to read everything:

Quote:Full Credit to supergamer-with thanks to TheDead/Jerry for helping to get the typos out and making the answer crystal clear. 

For those who like the command line:
sudo leafpad /etc/default/grub
Make the change described below
sudo update-grub

(02-20-2018, 11:03 PM)supergamer link Wrote: There is an easier solution that can be easily modified. Use these commands.

sudo thunar

type in password:

Go to the /etc/default folder and right click and open up the grub text file. Find the line [size=1.35em]"GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"[/size]

Make it look like this:
"#GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

Close out the grub text file and folder and you should still have the terminal opened up.
Run:
sudo update-grub

Reboot and it should be like you like it. To put the splash back in just reverse what you did with editing the line in the grub file.

There are many package tools:

The graphical tools for Update/Upgrade that are available from the Linux Lite menus
and
the Higher Level Debian tools: apt / apt-get / aptitude / synaptic
and
dpkg

Can someone please tell me are all these tools just front ends for dpkg?

Do they all use the same repo lists, or is there a possibility that they may end up using different lists and damage an installation?

Since there are different ways to accomplish the same task, it would be good to know if they are all equivalent/safe, or if there are methods that should be avoided.

In particular keeping up with security updates...  apt-get update / apt-upgrade OK or NOT?

Should I use apt or apt-get or doesn't it matter?

What about aptitude (command line) or synaptic (gui) - at the moment they seem to indicate 4 upgradeable packages (all part of python).  I don't care about them on this VM, but if I did care would be nice to be able to update. 

It seems at the moment those updates are included in all method, but the graphical tools want to update a larger list of packages.

Can someone offer some insight on the workflow regarding updating and how updates/upgrades get migrated from Ubuntu to Linux Lite.

Any input/references etc. will be much appreciated.


---------- Reference Material for the Above ----------
Output from apt-get upgrade (not run) - same results as aptitude/synaptic

They should mimic MX Linux a bit, have excellent gui tools for the user, it is very fast and uses kernel 4.13 After trying MX Linux, the truth ... I do not return anymore to Linux Lite. I found in MX what I needed and much more, and that Linux Lite gave me until today, but I was very little. Hopefully improve and imitate a bit of this great MX Linux distro, so there will be an excellent distro based on Debian and another based on Ubuntu (Linux Lite) Thanks for everything Linxu LIte, hopefully improve, the best for the team.  8)

So I want to address this now, as I really wanted to upgrade all my machines to LL 3.8. However I have a single machine running LL 3.6 that just always tells me it's up to date and it's been doing that for months (despite other machines finding and install updates regularly). Currently when I try to upgrade that machine to LL 3.8, I get a message stating I already have the latest version. Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? I'm not a Linux expert, but I haven't really changed the system much, so I'm a bit befuddled as to why this is all happening.

I just set up the desktop on a v3.8 install, and I was wondering if there is a way to tweak individual elements on the tak bar.  I selected a primarily red theme, and the sected workplace switcher and the window button for the program with focus is a "baby blue" which looks lousy against the red background.  Is there any way I can tweak these elements, or do I have to find an theme with the colors I want.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Hi folks

I'm an old fart that has been around computers since the mid 1980s. No expert but I can do some basic stuff.  Used Windows since version 2, DOS since 3 and CP/M.

I started using Linux around 2001 thanks to Windows Millennium! Can't remember the distro. Moved to dual boot with Lindows / Linspire around 2002. I loved that distro and their vision. Left Linux when Windows 7 came out and  I quite like Windows 10.

We now have some old laptops. I run LL on an Acer One 522 to play downloads on the TV with VLC. It works really well.


Great setup you guys have here. Fabulous documentation.

First off, sorry for the long post, feel a need to rant and also heap some praise. 
Have spent the last few days exploring various Linux distro's in a end view to install on my living room multimedia PC. It runs Windows 7 x64, but since the meltdown and spectre debacle Windows updates have twice foobarred the OS, the first to a point where it wouldn't boot at all and the second time sent it haywire! Both times required a system restore to return it to a working state, and to tell it to ignore a couple of updates so they didn't install again.
It also happened at a most inconvenient time both times, first time was when I wanted to watch a video and second time when I booted it up to play some music while I got on with other things.
Hence deciding to put Linux on there on a second drive so I always have a choice to boot in to either OS, and I'm not left with a non bootable machine the next time I want to stick some music on to listen to.
It is a pretty old machine except for the case, I purchased a new ATX cube case to build it up in a couple years back, it does look quite nice. The motherboard is a Asus socket AM2 (I was given by a friend who had upgraded) fitted with a AMD Phenom 2.2Ghz quad core CPU (bought off eBay for £5) and 8Gb of Ram, the chipset is Nvidia Nforce 4, that proves how old it is. I also put my old AMD Radeon HD4870 in there along with a Asus Xonar D2X 7.1 PCI-E sound card.
The first distro I downloaded and tried was Manjaro, it installed no problem and everything worked, it also had access to all the latest software. BUT, I don't know what it was for sure but I didn't like it much, it's possibly because I installed the KDE version, I loved KDE back in the 3.xx days but not since. I just couldn't get a feel for it so I continued looking.
    Second was SolydX, again everything worked but it felt quite slow and I moved on after 10 minutes.
I then downloaded and tried Gecko Linux. Well, better description would be tried to try Gecko Linux but it wouldn't even boot the ISO, just continually threw a kernel panic at the Grub boot menu so I moved on.
Grabbed MX-17 and gave it a try, everything worked but it has the most stupid task bar invented by man! Whoever came up with that idea needs to go to UI school, horrible. After faffing around trying to re-configure it for 5 minutes I concluded it would be quicker to download and try something else, so I did.
Next up was PCLinuxOS, everything worked and I know a lot of folk love it but I didn't! Spent half an hour with it but wasn't impressed so ditched it.
Next up was Bodhi Linux. I already have this installed on a PC I have in the bedroom, I have also used it for several years, since the Bodhi 2.0 days on various machines. I do like Bodhi and don't really have anything negative to say about it, but it's not suited to all tasks and I found this was one of them.
Finally I downloaded the 3.8 version of Linux Lite, (already have the 3.6 release but thought I'd grab the latest), and put that on there. Excellent! Everything worked as was expected and it reminded me why I choose Linux Lite in the first place. It just works, it's intuitive, it has sensible defaults, and it's a solid base to build upon and make what you want from it.
I still have to upgrade my main PC to 3.8, that's a job for later this week I think.

Great job guys, my living room multimedia PC is rocking and shaking the walls again!


Again, sorry about the long post just to say thanks. Another sleepless night and needed the distraction!  ;D