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  Joystick or Joypad properties and testing
Posted by: TheDead - 11-26-2017, 03:11 AM - Forum: On Topic - No Replies

Hellooo!

I know theres a game forum but this is related to the hardware part.
I was testing some hardware and found myself searching for the a Joystick properties app.
In windows, you have a gaming section where you can check if buttons work, etc.
I did not find anything similar in Linux Lite... but I'm still no0b.
I found this GUI app though and works great : jstest-gtk
I was wondering if LinuxLite had something similar I didnt find? :-O

Cheers!

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  Yet another Linux Lite boot splash
Posted by: Oobuntus - 11-26-2017, 02:36 AM - Forum: On Topic - Replies (4)

Pirouette is an alternate Linux Lite boot splash:
[Image: zoomed-pirouette.gif]

Image below more accurately shows colors than the gif above:
[Image: pirouette.png]

Available here: http://www3.telus.net/someubuntufreebies/pirouette.html

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  Grub menu problem
Posted by: RobGoss - 11-25-2017, 10:59 AM - Forum: Installing Linux Lite - Replies (12)

Hello everyone, I have a issue with one of my machines bootint up, you see on this machine I also had Lubuntu installedbut decided to install Linux lite 3.6. When I boot the machine I still see Ubuntu 16.04 on the splash screen and not Linux lite logo, is there something I need to change?


I did not to have to reinstall Lite because it's running like a champ ;D



Any help would be greatly appreciated 

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  forum @message reminders
Posted by: trinidad - 11-24-2017, 05:39 PM - Forum: Off Topic - Replies (3)

[member=2]Jerry[/member] When getting reminders of personal messages after logging in on the forum the notification is displaying two times above the forum bar for a single message. No big deal but it has been consistantly that way for a while on all my machines.

TC

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  How to install "lpr"-command > simply use "lp"-command instead
Posted by: laex2 - 11-24-2017, 09:47 AM - Forum: Printing and Scanning - Replies (3)

Hi guys!

I'm new to LinuxLite, installed it on a rather old PC that became quite slow with LinuxMint... So far the experience is really good (a lot snappier!!), but a couple of things are different obviously... Thanks for your kind help:

This old PC is being used in a small shop as a cash desk, so it uses an EPSON thermal receipt printer, which I was able to install right away without problem.

But we do use a script to automatically print the receipts and it uses the "lpr"-command which does not seem to be installed in LinuxLite. All my attempts to install it did not work, so I ran out of ideas but it is probably a simple issue... here is the responses:

Code:
nina@nina-LIFEBOOK-C-linuxLite ~/Downloads $ lpr -P BonDrucker BE00175.pdf
Das Programm »lpr« ist in folgenden Paketen enthalten:
* cups-bsd
* lpr
* lprng
Versuchen Sie: sudo apt install <ausgewähltes Paket>
nina@nina-LIFEBOOK-C-linuxLite ~/Downloads $ sudo apt install lpr
[sudo] Passwort für nina:
Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut.       
Statusinformationen werden eingelesen.... Fertig
Paket lpr ist nicht verfügbar, wird aber von einem anderen Paket
referenziert. Das kann heißen, dass das Paket fehlt, dass es abgelöst
wurde oder nur aus einer anderen Quelle verfügbar ist.
E: Für Paket »lpr« existiert kein Installationskandidat.

So first it tells me that "lpr" is contained in those three packages (and I guess that means that it ain't installed yet), but if I try to install any of these three suggested packages, the answer is that "lpr" is not available, but referenced by another package and that there is not any "installation candidate" existing... (Sorry for my code translation from German...)


I googled a lot and tried a couple of other things but to no avail so far.

Thanks a lot for your help with making the "lpr" command usable for printing!

Best regards
laex

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  Adult Learning Model; when struggling learning Linux.
Posted by: Moltke - 11-24-2017, 02:11 AM - Forum: Off Topic - Replies (2)

Hi everyone! Hope you're all having a nice life! Smile
I was re-reading this book today and thought of sharing this particular piece which I think might come very handy for those times when you -we - are struggling at learning Linux and think "how a noob I am" "this is frustrating" or somethink like that, so instead of aknowledging what we already learned we focus on the things we don't know...yet, and how these things are keeping us from getting the results we want, and here's when the frustation feeling starts. I think this might help you to understand and develope your particular way of learning: 
"When learning a particular skill, the process is predictable and has a distinct start and finish. While people differ in the unique aspects of learning, such as how quickly they learn, what comes easily to them, and where they get stuck, the overall process is exactly the same.
The “Adult Learning Model ” (ALM) is a straightforward theory that defines the four distinct levels of the learning process. The four levels are:

Level 1 — Unconscious Incompetence. You don’t even know what you don’t know. In other words, you’re blind to the ways that you lack skill.
Level 2 — Conscious Incompetence. Now you’ve become conscious of what you don’t know. But that doesn’t make you skilled, it just means you know what skills you need to improve. Becoming conscious happens from either your own insight or insight that is shared with you by someone else.
Level 3 — Conscious Competence. If you’ve reached this level, it means you’ve done some work and/or have had enough repetition to gain some skill. The only catch is that in order to be skilled, you need to think about what you’ve learned ... otherwise, you return to being incompetent.
Level 4 — Unconscious Competence. At this level, you’ve learned something so well that it is now totally automatic and requires no thinking. Unconscious Competence is the Holy Grail of learning.
A familiar example that shows the ALM in action is learning to drive a car. Remember when you were a small child thinking about driving a car. You barely knew what a car was, let alone how to drive one. This is Unconscious Incompetence. Then as a teenager, you became much more aware of driving and perhaps were frustrated by the fact that you couldn’t drive. You became conscious of your incompetence. Now think back to when you got behind the wheel for the first time. In order to drive a car, you first needed to learn how to: steer, step on the gas, watch the road, and change the radio station all at the same time; parallel park; adjust to the speed of highway traffic; and deal with thousands of unique situations. Then, you needed to concentrate and think about all of these things so you didn’t kill yourself or others. This is Conscious Competence. After driving for years, you no longer think about every single action needed to drive a car; your skill comes naturally and with little effort. You can handle driving, listening to music, talking to passengers, and extreme situations that arise, such as adverse weather, all without much thought. Driving is a skill now trained to the level of Unconscious Competence."
I think that having this piece of information can prove to be very helpful not only regarding learning Linux but anything else in our lives, specially when it comes to solving problems/situations that demands the most of us.
Well, I hope you find this post at the very least informative as well as helpful. And remember; we're all learning new stuff everyday and this is particularlly true when it comes to Linux.

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  Inclusion of x-apps
Posted by: ayanb - 11-23-2017, 12:46 PM - Forum: Suggestions and Feedback - Replies (3)

LL 3.6 comes preloaded with softwares like VLC,and ristretto for media playback and image preview. They are purely solving the purpose. That's true.

But beside that the X-App project from the Linux Mint team (pardon me) is gaining popularity these days. They are stable and works fine on different distros.

I personally use them on my LL installation. Can someday it can be a official inclusion as default apps in LL? What others think of it??

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  Hello to everybody
Posted by: brejdax - 11-23-2017, 11:46 AM - Forum: Introductions - Replies (6)

Up and running, I've got Linux for the first time on my machine  8).
Let the adventure begin  Wink

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  Blueman Trusty ppa throwing errors on LL 2.4 updater
Posted by: rokytnji - 11-22-2017, 05:47 PM - Forum: On Topic - Replies (3)

Just info. I had to disable Blueman repo in my sources.list to update one of my 2.4 LL machines.

Code:
           deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/blueman/ppa/ubuntu trusty main
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ehoover-compholio

My error

Code:
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main i386 Packages                         
  403  Forbidden
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en_US                     
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en                       
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/blueman/ppa/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages  403  Forbidden

After commenting out Blueman ppa for i386. You can use synaptic repo section to uncheck that repo for you gui users. < Likes a window box instead of command line >

After that
The updater finished OK.

Code:
harry@biker1:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
harry@biker1:~$
[code]

Just posting this in case anybody else runs into this. I got a feeling the developer dropped Ubuntu 14.04 i386 support for Blueman in the PPA a bit early is all.

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  Asus Network Problems
Posted by: chorlton - 11-22-2017, 12:56 PM - Forum: Network - Replies (3)

It's been about 10 years since I ditched Windows for Linux and in that time I have always found solutions to any problems in the various communities.


After constant searching for about a month I haven't found any way to solve this issue.


It all started with the dreaded Resolving Host in Chromium. So I changed to Google's DNS servers as is recommended and for a day or so I was back to trouble free browsing.


But now the problem has got worse and neither Chromium or Firefox will resolve hosts and just time out with a Server Not Found error.


However if I first boot from a live USB, connect to the WIFI, change the DNS to Google, without doing so it doesn't connect; restart the network and all is good, I can then boot from the hard drive and well here I am typing this as if I hadn't gone through that whole rigmarole to get here.


The whole booting from a live stick doesn't work in persistence mode with saved IPV4 changes.


I don't own a landline, I pay to connect to BT's hotspots which are in abundance in my area.
My desktop doesn't suffer with the same problem and neither does my 10" netbook that's also an Asus.


Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 



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