My son was playing Factorio on my LL 3.8 laptop. It froze during the stage of joining a multiplayer game. I tried Ctrl-C and it did not work. I also tried Alt-tab and Ctrl-Alt-Delete.

Finally I did a hard shutdown using the power button. This worked, but it was very much a last resort. My question is, what should I have done (if anything) instead of shutting down with power button? Is there another combination of keys which should have worked to force-quit the game? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

I've been spending quite a bit of time creating special panels on my desktop to launch project specific programs and open specific file folders.  This is going to be a fantastic system when I'm done, but it takes some time to set it all up.  So my question:

Is there a way to save an entire panel including all its launchers and transfer it to another Linux computer?

The reason I ask is because I'm installing Linux on some of my other computers and I would love to be able to just instantly transfer all these panels and launchers to the new installation.  I realize that some of them might not work due to small differences in paths, etc.  But I could deal with having to just clean up a few paths.  But it would sure save me a lot of time if I could just transfer these newly customized panels over to the newly created Linux systems.

I'd hate to have to redo this all over again from scratch with every new installation.

Thanks

Hey guys I am looking for an screen writer app. I am currently got an book / film idea but I know of macos apps... Thought I ask here to get some ideas.

God not dead. He roaring like an lion.

On an Asus G750JS I'm having problems when playing music.  The subwoofer frequently cuts out, when playing quite loudly, the sound being mainly limited to the inbuilt front speakers.
I need to be able to independently control (reduce) the volume on the subwoofer as I think too much power is going through it and making the cone 'stick' at the limit of its movement.
The problem has been reported elsewhere, though everyone else with this laptop model are using windows 8.1 or 10 and of course have Windows software to allow independent control of the subwoofer, see
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.ph...ofer-Issue

How do I control the subwoofer volume independently from that of the front speakers in LL3.8?

Many thanks for any help with this

I apologize for being new to Linux, but I'm tying to install a USB device driver for an aftermarket Arduino UNO Board.  This board requires what is called a CH340 serial driver.

I downloaded the driver in a zip file from here:
USB CH341/CH340 LINUX  URL to zip file - http://www.5v.ru/zip/ch341ser_linux.zip

I downloaded this zip file and unzipped it.  It produces three files. 

1. A very short "Readme" file. 
2. A Makefile
3. and a ch34x.c file.

Here's the content of the Readme file:

// ChangeLog
// 1.0 - 1.1  modified to solve transmition between ch341 and ch341

Instructions

Note: 1.Please run followed executable programs as root privilege
      2.Current Driver support versions of linux kernel range from 2.6.25 to 3.9.10
      3.Current Driver support 32bits and 64bits linux systems

Usage:
(load or unload linux driver of CH34x)
//compile
#make
//load ch34x chips driver
#make load
//unload ch34x chips driver
#make unload

The following is the content of the Makefile file:

ifeq ($(KERNELRELEASE), )
KERNELDIR := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build
PWD :=$(shell pwd)
default:
$(MAKE) -C $(KERNELDIR)  M=$(PWD) 
clean:
rm -rf .tmp_versions Module.symvers *.mod.c *.o *.ko .*.cmd Module.markers modules.order
load:
modprobe usbserial
insmod ch34x.ko
unload:
rmmod ch34x
else
obj-m := ch34x.o
endif


The ch34x.c file contains a large source code of C programming language.  I can also open that in a text editor and read it, but it's quite large so I won't copy and paste it here.

~~~~~~~

In any case, I don't know what to do with these files?  If I click on the Makefile it just opens in the text editor.

QUESTION: How do I go about actually installing this driver?

I imagine I need to use the terminal and type in commands, but I've never installed anything like this before so I don't know how to do this.

Also if it's possible to just use the command line to do something like $ sudo apt-get install CH340 driver that would be great, but I don't know how to do that either.  This is why I downloaded the zip file in the first place.

Thanks for any help.

Hello,
I downloaded turboprint_2.45-1_amd64.deb trial, hoping it will enable me to use my Canon Pixma MP600. I right clicked on the downloaded file and selected "open with Gdebi package installer", I got a message about broken dependencies:

linux-image-extra-4.4.0-97-generic -- Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
linux-image-extra-4.4.0-113-generic -- Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
linux-image-generic -- Generic Linux kernel image

I followed the instruction to run "sudo apt-get install -f" from terminal. It did not work.

I went to the Synaptic Package Manager and using help found broken dependencies and "applied" to fix them, this is the detail from the error box:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-4.4.0-113-generic_4.4.0-113.136_amd64.deb: cannot copy extracted data for './boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-113-generic' to '/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-113-generic.dpkg-new': failed to write (No space left on device)
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-4.4.0-97-generic_4.4.0-97.120_amd64.deb: cannot copy extracted data for './boot/System.map-4.4.0-97-generic' to '/boot/System.map-4.4.0-97-generic.dpkg-new': failed to write (No space left on device)

I should probably tell you, I tried many different things to try to fix it myself, from online searching and a couple of different Linux forum archives, but nothing works and I hope I have not totally messed up my system. If you tell me I just need to reload a fresh copy of Linux Lite, I guess I can, just not looking forward to tweeking Firefox and Thunderbird again.

At one point it said there was "no more room" but I figure I just did something wrong, because this is a new computer & I am a novice Linux user. I found another command to find how my hard drive is being used, this was the result:

:~$ df -H
Filesystem                  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                        6.3G    0  6.3G  0% /dev
tmpfs                      1.3G  42M  1.3G  4% /run
/dev/mapper/linux--vg-root  972G  28G  895G  3% /
tmpfs                      6.3G  308k  6.3G  1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                      5.3M  4.1k  5.3M  1% /run/lock
tmpfs                      6.3G    0  6.3G  0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1                  495M  493M    0 100% /boot
cgmfs                      103k    0  103k  0% /run/cgmanager/fs
tmpfs                      1.3G  46k  1.3G  1% /run/user/1000

I searched this forum and found this thread "Re: Broken packages linux kernel".  I found the person had tried many of the commands I did, in the end it looks like the instructions said "Here is what we will do next. We will use dpgk instead. This is a little drastic and can be dangerous at times". Do I dare try these steps myself?

Help please.

I've been interested in Linux Lite for years and finally used it to build a dedicated system as my primary desktop. It's booting off an encrypted SSD, so LVM is already enabled. I'm using LL release 2.6 64-bit and would prefer to stick with this release unless upgrading is absolutely necessary. Hardware is an HP xw8400 PC.

I just added a pair of 2TB SATA HDDs to use as a RAID 1 data store. Set them up as RAID 1 mirrored drives called "storage" in the Intel Matrix Storage Manager and running GParted shows the individual drives as /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, along with the RAID device as /dev/mapper/isw_beeaagchga_storage.

Here's where I'm stuck - how to turn the RAID 1 device into an encrypted volume? I've seen wildly varying instructions on various blogs and web sites and have tried a couple of different methods with no success. GParted doesn't seem to offer an obvious method.

This is my first post to this forum. Thanks in advance for the assistance.

Hey all,

Have used GNU/Linux for many years. I am coming from Manjaro with the KDE Plasma desktop, which I have used for over a year (not much of a distro hopper any more).

I was reluctant to change, as Manjaro was running great for me, however recent kernel updates has made me reevaluate things. Running on older hardware with recent kernels has caused some issues for me. The biggest is the noticeable performance hit after the Meltdown patches. Everything seemed more sluggish, with slow window animations in Plasma.

Fast-forward to now; I just installed Lite 3.8 64 bit, and am so far quite happy. The only thing I really needed to to out of the box was install Compton, which got rid of the screen tearing issue with XFCE. I had to switch from F.lux to Redshift-GTK, as F.lux was not working correctly for me in Lite. There isn't much of a visual adjustment, as I was already using the Arc Dark theme in Plasma. I was using Obsidian icons, however the Faenza icons look great!  Everything is running quite smooth and snappy now!

Hello,

this is my first try at making a Linux distro, I done it from the command line up.
I made it to try and learn some things about how Linux works, which I did learn some things.
I have not edited the desktop such as wallpaper, or added any software like a web browser, I will do some of those things another time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9UEMPS9DOA

I made it on Linux Lite, using VirtualBox.
Lots of first things for me that I done/tried out with this.
I made the 25GB VirtualBox machine then partitioned it, and formatted the partitions, enabled swap.
Then added the Arch Linux base for the distro.
Configured it for location, and keyboard, persisting on reboot, made a root, and a user account with less permissions.
Connecting to internet from command prompt pinging a website site for tests, I'd not tried these stuff before.
Then disconnecting the Arch Linux iso, and working purely from the base and booting from the my first try distro afterwards.
Afterwards installing the X windows server, from Xorg.
Then installing a desktop environment , MATE.
Then installing the display manager LXDM,  testing and setting to start on boot.
Then installing a font set.

I made some screenshots at random times whilst doing it, in case either the computer or my head fried lol, so that I could look at them afterwards and maybe spot an error etc.
I made 2 errors, 1 was adding an s in a command where it didn't need it, after about 5 tries I realized this.
Another error was a command I used and the place I got it from had made an error and added an - before a word where it didn't need one, this took me about 1 hour to solve lol.

Afterwards I made a small SimpleScreenRecorder video for YouTube, which I hope is interesting/fun, it is shown below some the screenshots during making the distro.

In total time it took me 4 hours just under to make the distro, it kinda shows, as it is not very pretty looking and lacks any of added apps yet.
I would like to try some more builds with different desktop environments but I only found the command for adding MATE at the time and I wanted to do it this afternoon, so I need to do some more searching once Ive finished with this one.

Hi, I'm new to Linux Lite and loving it so far!

I have some questions about how to use Workspaces.

Is there any way to make the multiple Workspaces act like unique desktops?

In other words, I've changed the wallpaper on each Workspace.  That's nice, but not very useful.

What would really be useful is if each Workspace had its own app launchers.

The way it is right now every workspace has the same app launchers and I haven't been able to find a way to change that.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.