Merry Christmas to the Linux Lite team and forum members. Seasons greetings to those who do not celebrate Christmas.
Love the seasonal theme. Personally I prefer lighter themes, easier to read than dark themes. Everything is very clear.
The usual dark theme causes problems on small screens eg. where the righthand menu links to Shop, Team and Logout wrap to another line and the text has hardly any contrast with the background.
I know other forum themes are available but the Christmas one is the clearest yet. How about selectable themes for the four seasons.

Hi everyone! Hope you're all having a nice life!

Open LL Forums site and what did I find? A very nice Merry Chistmas theme. So, I just wanted to say...Merry Christmas everyone!

Hi, all,

Since Sunday before last, I've had three apparent complete system freezes.  The first was during a DVD write, and I am confident it was a system freeze rather than a simple graphics freeze (with the system still running), and the DVD write did not complete despite leaving it 20 minutes (it normally completes in 5 or so).

Being new to Linux, I was wondering if anyone has any advice on how to go about diagnosing such freezes - for example, which log files to check, what terminal commands to try, etc.?

Thanks,
Ian

This section will contain some of the features that will be appearing the in Linux Lite 4.x Series. We won't be giving too much away as that will spoil some of the surprises we have

First up - The Terminal

* We'll be switching to XFCE Terminal
* The terminal will feature Powerline, see more here - https://github.com/b-ryan/powerline-shell

This combo allows for powerful, customizable, beautiful terminals unlike anything you've seen so far.

hello!!, yesterday i was watching the Steve Jobs movie,great movie,  but later i was looking for another movie with computers, hackers and more,so i collected 10 trailers to see, recommended 100% if you like informatics,cyberpunk,fiction,etc... let's see!:

1) HACKERS 1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn2cf_wJ4f4

2) ALGORITM 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyTUVovCp5s

3) BLADE RUNNER 1982

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eogpIG53Cis

4) WAR GAMES 1983

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xogbyv108kI

5) WHO AM I -NO SYSTEM IS SAFE (real title in german is Kein System ist sicher)2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vnjheCqRIs

6) THE PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY 1999

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

7)BLACKHAT 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ1ZDlLImF8

8)THE INTERNET'S OWN BOY: The Story of Aaron Swartz 2014 (documental, but is a great movie!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvsxnOg0bJY

9)SNOWDEN 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlSAiI3xMh4

AND FINALLY CHAN CHAN CHAN!!

10)MATRIX 1999

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8e-FF8MsqU

if you know some movies, please reply with the title or trailer, some movies are available on youtube, others in pirate links, but is on you search

here is a bonus:
ANONYMOUS 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83fZVnykjtI

I'm working on a chromebook on which I have loaded LL3.4 and when I tried to shut down yesterday this message popped up:

Received error while trying to log out
Session manager must be in idle state when requesting a shutdown

I have not done anything with sessions on this notebook and am wondering what I do to resolve this issue?

Thanks in advance,
Janet

Hi all, can I safely delete these 2 partitions? https://ibb.co/j9fGpb
Extended Partition 2 and the Swap partition 5? I can then expand the whole hard drive correct?


Thanks

Hello everyone. My story.

For the past decade or so I've been using mac OSX on various iMac and Macbooks.
Then back in March this year the graphics card failed on the expensive Macbook Pro which was of course just out of warranty by a few weeks  >

A replacement was going to cost crazy cash and I was becoming disillusioned with the locked down Apple ethos, so I started looking for a refurbished PCs running Windows 10 and after some research settled on a Thinkpad, a 2012 model X220 and the last to use the classic IBM style thinkpad keyboard but a still new-ish core i5 processor. Popped in the 8gb of ram and 1TB SSD from the old Macbook and I was a happy bunny. This like-new Thinkpad cost me $220. Having been away from windows for many years, I must say that Windows 10 is a pretty decent operating system - but oh they want to know everything, and it's invasive, and you can't stop auto updates...... far from ideal.

A friend suggested Linux so I've spent the past 2 months trying out the different flavors but mainly KDE Neon (nice), Mint Cinnamon (nice but limiting) Manjaro KDE (bios errors/fail) Deepin (lovely but resource hungry), and Antergos (Gnome). Of the bunch, Antergos worked really well but as someone new to Linux but not a computer newbe the rolling release Arch base left me uneasy. Countless daily update notifications means that something was bound to break sooner rather than later. I'd prefer a more stable platform.

So I happened across a Youtube review of Linux Lite and as I'd not yet experienced XFCE decided to install a copy.
Well this really is light on resources but certainly not light on features. I was very pleasantly surprised at just how customizable this is, and with a nice set of flat Papyrus icons installed and a dark theme, Lite looks very sharp indeed.

It flies along on this Thinkpad which actually runs cooler and with about an additional 1 hour of battery life compared to something like Deepin or Neon.

Well done Jerry and the team!

Rob

I have put LL 3.4 on two Chromebooks both have 2GB RAM and only 16 GB HD (or I guess accurately they have SSD).

On the one on which I am setting things up I noticed that when I do the df -h in terminal to see how much space I have unused it "appears" that I am currently at 92% full.  Is this possible? 

I had continued to do updates since initially installing LL 3.4 and when I tried to load Ktouch a typing program it indicated not enough room (when I checked df -h then it said 99%) so I went back to an earlier restore point and it read 86%.

So my two questions are:
1) is it possible that with the updates it is now taking about 14-15 GB?
2) Should I stop doing updates as might "not completely updating" cause more of an issue than not updating?

I'm not too concerned about high school study stuff as I had already figured I would use a small 32 GB USB (the short ones so it doesn't stick out) and leave it always attached.

Hi guys,
I don't know if this is a weird question but I'm curious if Jerry and the team have long-term ambitions or goals that they can share with us.  As a relatively new but big fan of Linux Lite I would like more users to try this distro and embrace it. I'd like to see it's ranking rise on distrowatch.

Another weird question along those lines...  I don't know how the development teams of all these distros operate but I was wondering if smaller but similar distros ever merged to compete with larger distros. For example, (not that I want anything about LL to change at all) could there ever come a day when Linux Lite and Xubuntu merge?  DISCLAMER- I know almost nothing about Xubuntu other than it's based on Ubuntu and uses the xfce desktop.

Thanks