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  Lite wallpapers created with Inkscape.
Posted by: hackdorte - 02-03-2018, 04:42 AM - Forum: Wallpapers - Replies (3)

Simple and lightweight SVG wallpapers created in Inkscape.

Available in my Google Drive folder in SVG format (lighter weight).

Download

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1...sp=sharing

How to use?

Download it to your system (computer). Right-click (mouse) the SVG image on your system and choose "Set as Wallpaper".

Just it  Wink

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  Suggestion for Linux 4.0
Posted by: newtusmaximus - 02-02-2018, 07:05 PM - Forum: On Topic - Replies (5)

Jerry, I know your feelings about all things G.  I wonder however whether you would sort out Google Earth for linux so it can be loaded with ease from a ppa .

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  Audio
Posted by: bluzeo - 02-02-2018, 10:21 AM - Forum: Other - Replies (7)

Guys I was trying to get to my  music playing when the my session seriously stop having sound any ideas??


God Not dead.

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  Setting partitions
Posted by: Robo_Pi - 02-01-2018, 09:58 PM - Forum: Installing Software - Replies (10)

I'm trying Linux for the first time.  I'm loading Linux Lite 3.8 on the following old notebook computer:

Compaq Persario CQ56
Intel Celeron 2.2Ghz processor
2 GB Memory
320 GB hard drive (brand new drive no preexisting OS)

Initial Installation

I've loaded Linux Lite 3.8 using a USB stick.
The original installation went fine the first try.
However I wasn't sure of some of the options to chose when installing.

Drive Configuration
I partitioned the drive into two units of about 150 GB each plus a small "swap area" with the leftover space.
I set the boot partition to be mounted at the "\", and set that to Primary.
I set the second partition to be mounted at the "\HOME" directory.
FIRST QUESTION: Can I set both partitions to be mounted at "\" or root position?
And if so would they then show up as two different drives?
The reason I ask is that the way it is now they only show up as one drive. 
And I'm guessing the second partition is actually the HOME directory? 
Is that right?
I would actually prefer to have the partitions show up as two physical drives.
This is somewhat trivial but I'm just not sure how this is working.
I like the second partition to show up as a whole separate drive.  That's the way I've always done it in Windows.

Drive Configuration Con't
I formatted both drive partitions with the ext4 file system simply because this was the default choice
I was tempted to use FAT 32 as I think it would suit my purposes and I like to use older compatible stuff.  ;D
The reason I ask will become clear later when I talk about OPENSHOT video editor.
SECOND QUESTION: Is it possible to format one partition in ext4 and the other partition in FAT 32?
The reason I ask is because I basically install programs on the boot drive with the OS.
And then I use the other partition as solely a DATA drive.
I'm thinking that it might be preferable to have the DATA in FAT 32 to facilitate older programs.
But I don't really know if this would be a problem or not.
In fact, I could just do everything in FAT 32.  I very seldom run out of space.  My DATA storage requirements are quite small.
Also just for the record, I use a lot of older software and very simple software.
I have very specific things I use the computer for.  And I don't download unnecessary junk.
I've never had a drive space issue and I've never had a drive larger than 500GB
So my usage is very minimal.  FAT 32 would probably be just fine for me if ext4 is an issue?

Quick Comment about the Initial Installation

Linux Lite installed just fine the first try. I then installed all the lasted updates.
It connected to WiFi with no problem
Firefox seems to be working just fine.
I only just did this yesterday but thus far no serious issues until I tried loading my first program:

OPENSHOT Video Editor
One of the first programs I wanted to use is a video editor called OPENSHOT
I downloaded the latest version for Linux.
No installation required, just "Make File Executable".
I did that and OPENSHOT opened.
However, I immediately noticed problems.  Right off the bat things weren't working right.  The program wasn't responding normally.
I tried to load an MP4 video file into the program and it just freezes and won't respond.  I have to go down to the task bar and click "Close window" to exit the frozen editor.
THIRD QUESTION: Could this problem be related to the ext4 file system?
The reason I'm suspecting this might be related is because OPENSHOT freezes up when trying to open a file.
So now I'm tempted to reinstall Linux using FAT32 instead of ext4 in the hopes that OPENSHOT might then run smoothly?

Anyway, that's where I'm currently at.  Linux seems to be working fine until I tried to run OPENSHOT.  I even downloaded OPENSHOT a second time to start fresh but that didn't help.  So now I'm suspecting that the ext4 file system might be related to this problem?

Recap of important questions:
FIRST QUESTION: Can I set both partitions to be mounted at "\" or root position?
I would like for the partitions to show up as individual drives if possible.
SECOND QUESTION: Is it possible to format one partition in ext4 and the other partition in FAT 32?
Or should I just do the whole shebang in FAT 32?
THIRD QUESTION: Could my problem with OPENSHOT be related to the ext4 file system?
I'm secretly hoping that if I reinstall Linux using FAT 32 OPENSHOT might then work ok.

Thank you for your patience to read my questions.


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  Matrix terminal
Posted by: bitsnpcs - 02-01-2018, 06:17 PM - Forum: Scripting and Bash - No Replies

Hold down Ctrl and Alt and press t (Ctrl Alt + t)

Copy/Paste (or type) in to your terminal -
Enter your password when asked.

Code:
sudo apt-get install cmatrix

Once installed if you copy/paste (or type) in to your terminal -

Code:
cmatrix

An animated matrix image scrolls downwards filling the terminal.

I made an example with SimpleScreenRecorder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2vgIQPqtZM


Hold down Ctrl and press C (Ctrl+C) to exit back to your work in terminal.

I think it can be useful to stop people looking in your terminal, such as at your newly made random passwords whilst you are busy making some tea. 8)

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  Star Wars ASCII
Posted by: bitsnpcs - 02-01-2018, 06:10 PM - Forum: Scripting and Bash - No Replies

Hold down Ctrl and Alt and press t (Ctrl Alt +t)

Copy/paste (or type) in to your terminal -

Code:
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

You can watch Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in ASCII

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  case sensitivity
Posted by: bitsnpcs - 02-01-2018, 06:05 PM - Forum: Scripting and Bash - No Replies

Hold down Ctrl and Alt and press t (Ctrl Alt +t)

Copy/paste or type in to your terminal -
Enter your password when asked.

Code:
sudo apt-get install sl

Once installed whenever you type in your terminal

Code:
sl

A Steam Locomotive train will drive, right to left, across your terminal, then return you back to your prompt/work.

Coz reverse stuff can be fun, you can also type in uppercase -

Code:
LS

For the same result  Smile

As

Code:
ls

in lower case doesn't display the locomotive train, but instead lists the contents of the directory, it is a good way for learning the importance of upper and lower case in Linux, and how they are not the same thing.

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  coloured text in terminal
Posted by: bitsnpcs - 02-01-2018, 05:58 PM - Forum: Scripting and Bash - Replies (5)

Hold down Ctrl and Alt keys and press t (Ctrl Alt + t)
copy/paste (or type) in to your terminal -
Enter your password when asked.

Code:
sudo apt-get install toilet

Examples

[Image: Screenshot_2018_02_01_11_34_34.png]

[Image: Screenshot_2018_02_01_11_35_02.png]

Code:
toilet --help


[Image: Screenshot_2018_02_01_11_36_25.png]

For a quick start to begin with you can use the commands in the above images and just change "bitsnpcs" in command to your nym.

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  Ethernet connection very slow and droping on old desktop
Posted by: pemartins - 02-01-2018, 05:52 PM - Forum: Network - Replies (3)

The Ethernet connection in this old pc is killing me to the point I cannot even update the system... Sad

Here's the output of ifconfig:

Code:
[code]$ ifconfig
enp0s18   Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:17:c6:41:79 
          inet addr:192.168.1.4  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::3d9c:f129:70d0:20d/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2912 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:668
          TX packets:3227 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2557078 (2.5 MB)  TX bytes:380159 (380.1 KB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:367 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:367 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
          RX bytes:32478 (32.4 KB)  TX bytes:32478 (32.4 KB)
[/code]

I attached the system report created with Linux Lite's script.

I had a similar problem in this machine while using Windows XP, I do not remember what I did but it had something to do with changing something like duplex and changing 100MB/s to 10MB/s or something alike.

What can I do to improve the Ethernet connection?

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  New to Linux; several problems
Posted by: betwixt - 02-01-2018, 03:38 PM - Forum: Introductions - Replies (5)

Hello,

I am brand new to linux and have very little knowledge of computers. I'm on an old msi Wind Notebook that was running Windows 7. i apologize if i'm missing a bunch of necessary info outlined in the guide to posting, but it's all i can do to type this at the moment, so please just ask me and i'll tell you whatever else!

I think I posted for help with installing updates the other day, but now I can't find that post (although i can see in in my general pr6file that i do have a post). So to reiterate and to describe some other problems as well, first, I successfully installed linux lite, but when i click on the first recommended step, to install updates, i get an error log (which i copied into the previous post which i now can't find, so i won't paste it here, but i can regenerate if need be. Second, I have to use the function key to type what's inside the brackets [uiojklm;], as well as some capital letters and other punctuation. Can someone please explain how to change that?

I'll leave it there for now--many thanks for considering! I've wanted t6 switch to linux for a long time, but need some major support getting started!

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