I want to make some you-tube style videos - guy talking into the computer, i.e. with capture from webcam and sound. I have googled and tried a few things like cheese and the guvcview in the LL software, but nothing works. Is there a simple program out there that can help me do this? I am not sure what such things are called and suspect haven't been getting good search results.


Or: can I get help in getting guvcview to run without error message on starting up. ' could not start a video stream on the device'. Cheese works fine, but has no audio.
I cannot use Skype because somebody hijacked my email and Skype won't let me cancel that account and am not interested in making a new email address just for skype.

Hi Community, i have debating whether or not to introduce myself for a couple of weeks and after a couple of libations i thought - sod it, its about time that I said Hi.

I've been using Linux on and off since about 1996.  Never to any great degree of competence, but at least I knew it was available and I had the option  .

I'm using linux lite on a woefully underpowered HP550 laptop.  It's enough for my needs though.

I recently graduated with a very obscure Masters degree in Lift (Elevator) engineering.  I mention this because its actually cheaper for us to develop the control side of things using raspberry Pi these days than any other platform!

Dabble a little with Arduino too, despite having problems getting the latest version to run, lol.  Well, we all need hobbies. 

My background is more in control systems and mechanical engineering, but i like to dip my toe in the electrickery side of things and I am considering entering the world of HAM radio with my local group.

Have to say, that although it lacks the bells and whistles of full blown Ubuntu, i am blown away by the stability and speed of linux lite.  If i ever did install on one of my faster platforms, i think that i'd still opt for this distro.

Hi all,

I've been using LL as media jukebox for almost 3 years mostly as music player. MPD default system service installed, USB SB X-Fi as audio source and Android as a controller. "The problem" rises when I've bought a new loudspeakers. They are probably designed without consideration of Baffle Step compensation which without produce low frequency leak and frequency balans unsettled. The easiest way compensate it is using ordinary equalizer. Unfortunately after hours of fight with alsaequal I couldn't convice it to cooperate and I've gave up. Decide use pulseaudio.

As you know (od not) it isn't so simple just set it in MPD's configuration file. Default MPD and pulseaudio have different owners so MPD couldn't reach (in a simple way) user's pulsaudio proces. We need to reconfigure MPD and use it as user service. There are many descriptions how to do it, ie:

http://gmpc.wikia.com/wiki/MPD_INSTALL_U...ICE_UBUNTU but it doesn't give us success. After all steps of procedure I always have message:

Quote:socket: Failed to bind to ':6600': Address already in use

Hi guys!

Does anyone uses Retroarch for old school gaming?
I installed it but it freezes on start up and goes black.
When I try to close the the window it just does not close...

Any help?

I just now completed the steps to contribute a small amount each month to Linux Lite. Don't misunderstand. My contribution is a small amount, not a nice, big fat payday type contribution. I'm not posting to brag of my deed. I'm posting to say that if we really want to support Jerry and the rest of the crew, we need to consider helping out financially as we're each able to. There are expenses involved with maintaining a Linux Distribution, a web site, a forum site, etc, etc. If we truly love and appreciate Lite, we all need to do what we're able. You can even contribute as little as a dollar a month if that's what your personal budget allows. All the small, monthly donations add up to really help these guys out. Here is a link to where you can set up a monthly Paypal contribution. There are other methods of payment accepted as well. For Paypal, scroll down nearly to the bottom of the page.

https://www.linuxliteos.com/donate.html

I also changed my Avatar to the "Paypal Supporter" icon. I'm not entirely sure if I'm supposed to actually use that Avatar. So would one of you guys that know please let me know if that's OK? There are different terms used in different places to refer to contributions made. I just want to be sure I'm supposed to use that Avatar. Thanks, guys.

Also, if I have crossed some line or violated some unwritten rule with my new thread, please feel free to remove it. I don't want to offend anyone. I'm just really impressed with Lite. I have never financially supported any distro, but I feel strongly enough about Lite to offer what I can.

[color=rgb(29, 33, 41)]if you have an old laptop in a closet gathering dust, you can now give it a new life with Linux Lite, the machine I am on every day is a 9 year Dell Inspiron 1501 that had Windows Vista on it, one of the worst things windows ever did, ran slow and made this laptop a miserable experience. We have a desktop with Bill Gates 10 for my wife and son to use for things they have to do. I use this 9 year old laptop with Linux Lite for everything else. The learning curve is changing fast in Linux and you don't have to know everything to use Linux anymore. It's free and you can learn how to do everything on a OS that kicks Windows to the side. You don't have to learn Linux commands anymore, it helps you to keep it updated and runs faster than Bill Gates can walk.[/color]

Whenever I attempt Install of FrostWire 5.6.1 I get a message stating that the JRE is incompatible.  or something to that effect. Has anyone succeeded with installing FrostWire with Linux lite?


If so,


Please give me the "run-down" on how to get it installed onto my Lite OS.

I haven't had my machine on for while, but having switched on and completed quite a number of updates, for some reason I have no minimise, maximise or close on any of my windows other than chrome. Alt F4 to close is about the only option that works. I know this is related window manager but I'm lost as what to restore, I've tried changing/adding keyboard options but even that doesn't seem have an affect.  ???

[size=1.35em]ASUS 1201HAB Netbook (with damaged but usable screen) running Linux Lite as a Pi-hole LAN-wide ad blocking headless server.[/size]

This machine had been dual booted with XP and a previous version of LL. It was configured to use Win XP to bridge the residential gateway wifi here to my own private wireless router. This setup had provided a private subnet with four Ethernet ports and a WAP.

I happened to find a WRT54g ver. 6 Wireless G Router, added a suitable wall-wart, loaded it with the WRT-DD (micro) firmware, and configured it to Client Bridge mode. Thus I was able to replace the netbook bridge and say goodbye to Windows XP.  Also, the WRT54g provides not one but five Ethernet ports directly connected to the residential gateway via wifi.  My own private wireless router is plugged into one of these ports leaving four available to access the residential LAN.

So now I set about deploying the unused netbook as a Pi-hole DNS server. First thing was to load the latest version of Linux Lite so I took the opportunity to eliminate the dual boot configuration. I also upgraded the RAM from one to two GB but I doubt this yields any value, it may have actually slowed things down. Pi-hole is very easy to install and administer so all I really had to deal with was making the Linux Lite system work like a headless server. I expect the configuration changes here would apply to any Ubuntu based distro. It took a lot of experimentation but the end result is a pretty simple configuration process. I am so grateful for all those contributions of knowledge, here and elsewhere, which I liberally stole these ideas from.

The first issue to address is that, by default, the lid switch will put the system into a suspend state. This happens in two different contexts, the display manager's (lightdm) greeter and the window manager (Xfwm). Fortunately there is a simple way to defeat the suspend response for both.

    In /etc/systemd/logind.conf modify "suspend" to "lock" in this fashion:

        HandleLidSwitch=lock

In addition to this, you'll want to configure the usual power management settings in the obvious ways including locking the system after a period of inactivity for security purposes. Basically, don't let the system suspend, hibernate, or power off when on AC.

Next we have to deal with getting NetworkManager to automatically connect to the network at a static ip address during unattended boot. The easiest way that I've found to do this is to add a few lines to /etc/rc.local. First you need to set up the NetworkManger connection with the static address on the LAN and proper upstream DNS servers through the normal nm-applet means. Just give it a name you can use from the command line, I'll use EthCon in my example. Also, due to a race condition bug in Pi-hole on Ubuntu, you'll need to get Pi-hole to restart its DNS server after the connection is made.

    In /etc/rc.local add these lines before the "exit 0" line at the bottom, replacing EthCon appropriately of course.

        /usr/bin/nmcli con up id EthCon 2>/dev/null &
        sleep 60
        /usr/local/bin/pihole restartdns 2>/dev/null &


For access from a remote system on the LAN one can further install vnc4server using the Synaptic Package Manager (as opposed to the Linux Lite software installer). One must run vncserver from the command line to initially set up the password and config files. Then simply comment out the two lines according to the instructions at the top of ~/.vnc/xstartup so that the normal GUI server will be started when you remote in. (If using vnc4viewer on the client machine, one might type "vncviewer <static-ip-of-the-Pi-hole-server>:1" and then enter the password you configured for the vncserver.) To insure the vnc server is loaded at boot time do the following. (There is undoubtedly a better way to launch this but I despise fooling with the init/systemd/whatever problems.)

    In /etc/rc.local add this line before the "exit 0" line at the bottom after the lines inserted above replacing <username> appropriately.

        su - <username> -c "cd && vncserver :1" 2>/dev/null &


That's it, all I recall doing anyway; I may test these instructions from scratch at some point. Please note that Pi-hole has limitations and supplementing it with ad blocking extensions where possible is an option. For example, YouTube commercials are blocked by the uBlock Origin extension in Firefox and Chrome but not by Pi-hole. I do not know how much overhead this overkill incurs.

team,

can anybody help me with how to install microsoft office on Linux Lite 3.4. i am not able to install the same..
would appriciate help with the same..
you can directly mail me on [email protected] too..

regards
pradyut