Hello, Everyone,

Noticed a bit of a strange thing. I use LibreOffice Draw quite a bit, and I wanted to add it to my Favorites list in the Menu. But when I went to find it under Menu>All, I didn't see it listed at all. Only Writer, Calc, and Base are listed. Yet, Draw is installed, and I have been using it (by opening Writer then File>New>Drawing). So my question is, how do I add it to the Menu items, so that I can add it to my Favorite programs?

Thanks!
Kris

I'm happy to say that I got Lite 3.4 - 64 Bit installed on my Lenovo G50-45 this afternoon. I had trouble yesterday getting it on my wife's B50-45, but finally got it. I had no trouble at all installing on my G50. Everything went silky smooth. I did all the updates, tweaked the look of things a little bit, then even did a full home directory backup and set a restore point. I don't normally do either one, but figured it would be nice to be able to roll things back if need be. I'm going to do the backup and restore on my wife's laptop maybe tomorrow, then I'm considering copying the backup and restore from both laptops onto a USB flash stick for safe keeping off the hard drives.

I just can't say enough about how totally impressed with Lite I am. I've been using Linux on every PC in my house for about 15 years now. Over that time I've tried, and used, a wide selection of distros. I've been pretty loyal to Mint Mate for the last few years. I'm not sure what happened, but both of the laptops we have started experiencing real sluggish behavior. It started with version 17.1 and continued as I upgraded to 18 and 18.1, which is why I started looking for an alternative distro. Really glad I did. My wife's laptop is like a whole new critter now. My G50 is unbelievable with Lite on it.

So to each and every person involved with making Lite what it is today, THANK YOU!

I kind of hate to be so dumb about something like this, but I'm just not following what all is going on with Flash for Linux. As I do understand, Adobe/Macromedia is no longer supporting or developing Flash for Linux. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong. But I see regular updates coming as I do my software updates. But then I also see different attempts at other third party alternatives. So, what's the story? Should I be using Flash or not. Is there an alternative I should definitely be using?

Any help on this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I have 2.8 installed on /dev/sda3 with 3906 gb
I have Ubuntu installed on /dev/sda6 with 3900 gb
I want to remove 2.8 and install 3.4-32bit.iso in it place
How do I remove 2.8 and where do I install grub
Ubuntu is first and boots first from the grub menu

Hi. Newbie. Recently installed Lite 3.4 on Dell Inspiron 5565.

When I leave it alone for a little it doesn't just sleep, like Windows, it half turns off. The only way I can get it to start is by holding power to completely turn off and start from scratch. this is kind of a pain. I have tried playing with Power Manager, it was set on "never", which obviously wasn't true, for plugged and unplugged, I set it to the max and it did the same thing in an hour or less maybe. This is a hassle if I want to download something. I am used to leaving this to happen overnight sometimes... Any help would be appreciated.

I've done some cursory searching but haven't found the answer. I hope this hasn't been addressed a bunch of times already.

I have a really old laptop (HP Pavilion ze4600) that I have installed Linux Lite on. At first everything was running quite well, but somewhere in the process of various upgrades and updates I have lost the ability to surf the web! I have Firefox, Chrome, and Midori installed but none of them will launch. Firefox claims there is another session open or else the "firefox had a problem and crashed" dialog box opens, Chrome simply doesn't respond, and Midori complains about a problem with the bookmarks. I have "flashplugin-legacy" installed but it doesn't make any difference.

Is there anything I can do to get browsing working again on this computer, or do I need to re-install an older version of Linux?

ETA: I reinstalled the flashplugin package and now I can get Midori working, at least, but it would be nice to be able to use one of the other browsers too.

We're about 60 days from the next version of Linux Lite (3.6). How about a preview of things coming in the next release? Got anything that will whet our appetites?

I hope this is the correct place to post this problem. I'm attempting to install Linux Lite 3.4 64 Bit on my wife's laptop. It is a Lenovo B50-45. Hardware is an AMD A6-6310 APU, 4 GiB RAM, with AMD Radeon R4 Graphics. The hard drive is 500GiB and she has absolutely nothing saved on it. Her main use is email and some Internet surfing.

I'm sure the problem I'm having is actually related to the stupid UEFI. I say I'm sure, but I guess if I was sure I'd have solved the problem. Anyway, I have tried both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Lite, WattOS, and Xubuntu installs. The exact same problem occurs with each of the different distros. The laptop doesn't have an optical drive so I'm attempting to install from a USB stick. I have created the Live stick using both MintStick and UNetBootin. I never even get the Live stick running. It locates the USB stick, gives me the first splash screen with options to boot live, boot in safe mode, etc, then with Lite I get the yellow splash screen with the feather on it for approx 45 seconds, then that leaves and I have a black screen with command line messages.

The first message that pops up is:  (initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system
Then there are 5 errors and the final message is:  [ 158.248149] usb usb3-port1: unable to enumerate USB device

Then it just hangs there. I have tried different settings in the BIOS, or UEFI, or whatever it's called now. I know that at some point I was able to figure the thing out because it's running Mint 17.3 Rosa right now. I'm sure I wouldn't have changed any settings in the BIOS between the last time I loaded Mint and now so I should have been able to load a Live stick now. Maybe it's in the way I'm creating the USB stick. I format the stick before every time I write an image to it. And the stick loads up just fine on the G50-45 that I use.

Anybody have any ideas? I'm sure open to any suggestions. Thanks in advance.

I'm having a video display issue, i.e. fullscreen display on Youtube having choppy image even at 144p and Vlc video having what looks like a blue filter. It's an old pc so of course I'm not expecting to watch HD or something alike, I'd just like to ask for your help to check if something could be done to improve. If not no problem at all, Linux Lite brought this old machine back to life so I really couldn't ask for more.

I already updated mesa to the latest 17.1.2 but it didn't help. Here is the output of inxi -Fxxx:

I'm attaching a report. I read in the forum posting guidelines that only txt files could be attached but since when I was about to post I noticed that more file types where available and html format was much easier to read, I'm posting the generated html file. I apologize in advance if I'm doing wrong and if so let me know so I can remove it.

Thank you in advance.

Hi all,

I'm Paulo from Portugal, being using Linux for some time now and I after I tried Linux Lite 3.4 on a VM it ended up in an old Pentium 4 desktop I have and I must say, it works way better than I was expecting! It really brought that machine back to life!

Congrats to the team, keep up with the awesome work!

Cheers!