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

Hello!


I don't frequent the LL forums much anymore. Life's happened and all that. That's just how it is...
Anyways, A few days ago, I helped my grandparents setup their new cable Internet and a "new" computer. I say "new" because it really was just an unused desktop with not much use since new in 2010. The machine is an eMachines EL-1600 desktop with an Intel Atom 1.6, weak Intel Graphics, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD. Average basic sub-$400 USD computer from 2010. It came with Windows XP on it, and as you all know by now, it's been out of support for a while now. Up until a few days ago, they were using an even older HP Desktop from 2006 also running XP to get on the internet. Terribly insecure by now, for sure.


Now here's where the fun started with the "new" computer. It had really no data on it because it was unused for the better part of the decade so I didn't care about losing anything.


So first, I tried to install Windows 10 Home on it. HA! HA!. Really bad idea. So yes, it ran and booted, but barely. The 1GB of RAM was really the limiting factor here. From a cold boot, it was idling at about 750MB from a cold boot. Granted, some of the blame was my fault because the Windows 10 was 64-Bit, which I didn't know until after it installed. I booted and installed Windows 10 from a flash drive I made years back. That didn't stay on for long to say the least, running and gobbling up resources like that. So, something light, but something relatively easy to use OS was in need of calling here. I tried Linux Mint for the hell of it with the Cinnamon desktop, knowing that was somewhat Windows-like. It ran poorly on the little eMachines as well and consumed too much RAM to do too little much else on. So I had to pull out my beast of a laptop (ASUS ROG G752VT gaming laptop, a far cry from the little eMachines) to create a new USB bootable stick of Linux Lite 3.4 32-Bit, which luckily I had a copy of. Took 3 minutes to do that via DD in my laptop using Manjaro KDE (the only distro that works really well on this ROG). Took 15 minutes to get the OS on to the little eMachines. Idling from a cold boot with LL 32-Bit, RAM was about 350MB, which is a far cry from Windows. My grandparents like it better than Windows XP. Looks more modern to them. The floppy disk drive also did not work in Windows 10, since MS removed support for that, but works in Linux. I got their HP printer setup, their cable internet via Ethernet, their email on Thunderbird and a couple other little things. They are now secure and good to go. Never have to worry about viruses ever again. I did tell them this though: "Turn on the computer once a week to run the updates and input in the password I gave you. You can go for 2 weeks without turning it on, but there will be some data to download when that amount of time passes between updates, so I'd say once a week."


So story time is over!
Thanks for reading,
Theo.

How to change the color of these?

When I try to change my sources to the best/ fastest server in UK, it returns the fastest server as being mirrors.nl.eu.org. Please see this link https://justpaste.it/18d7z for the errors I receive. It would also seem that the extras repository is causing an issue as I have had to remove that from my sources.list file.
Many thanks