Very basic info for beginners can be found on FirstTimeLinux.com.  Linux Lite OS screenshots are featured on this site.

Hello Lite community. I am (soon to be 'was') a Windows user and is new to Linux.
I just found out about Lite on DistroWatch a couple hours ago. I've checked the Help Manual but couldn't find an answer to the first question I have. It's this:

Will Lite run on my old computer?
Pentium 4, 3.06 GHz
System model: D915GAV_
32 bit
came with 2GB RAM, I upgraded that to 4GB with only 3.something available for use.
It has XP Professional

I don't want to dual boot. I just want to run Lite only.  if this is not the place to post, please let me know.

After having a problem I was helped by being pointed in the direction of the Seahorse -Passwords and Keys program .
I feel that it should be installed in Lite Menu  at start up instead  of been hidden and needing to be installed first . There does not appear to be any other program in LL that is a Password manager using a GUI.


Colin

An empty mystery file named .gvfs has recently showed up in my home folder.  :o

I must open it in root and it is empty. I have searched for an explanation on the internet but I am not sure what I read it means. Apparently it has something to do with the Gnome desktop. Of course, I am only using XFCE. Has it something to do with Systemback or TOR browser which I only started to use recently? The way I found it was Deja Dup say it can not back it up and still tries to copy it even after I marked it should be ignored.

What is this file? How did I get it? Is it save to delete it?  :-\

Hi,


My old HP 3070 started making horrible noises, so time for a new printer,
my local supermarket(Tescos) had some New HP Deskjet 3634 AIO's for £39.99 @$60
So I bought one...


Plugged it into LL Laptop, pop-up "you need HP-3060 drivers", quick google, an update of HPLIP required.
So I went to the "Latest HPLIP Download" page.


Downloaded and ran the installer to update to the latest HPLIP,
Then ran HPLIP, added new printer, up and running via WiFi in a few minutes.
You do initially connect via USB, but a WiFi option is part of the options in HPLIP.
NOTE: It could be missed, on the last install screen, small text,
It says "Now Remove USB Cable" then run "HP-Setup <ip.address>" in a terminal


Print quality is very good, and it's a bit smaller than my old HP-3070 AIO.

Hello all,

I have Windows on sda1 and 2, Lite /, swap and /home on sda3, 5 and 6 and left some unallocated space for experimentation! I installed
there recently a few distros to see what they got in real installation because in VB, apart from being slow, I have to use scroll bars.
In order to avoid troubles with GRUB conflicts I installed each fresh installed distro's GRUB on each one's / and over them all I tried to re-install
Lite's GRUB (please, feel free to laugh!!!). Everything was going according to plan in the terminal, up to the final command "sudo update-grub"
where instead of a glorious boot menu with all the OS listed, I found myself in front of a black screen!
I boot in the live mode trying to mount Lite's / and re-install GRUB, where I see in the terminal that everything is where it supposed to be although
unmounted and as soon as I give the commands "sudo grub-install...." and "sudo update-grub" in the end, it turns back "grub-install: error:
failed to get canonical path of '/cow'
What are the proper commands to fix this and what did I do wrong?

Thank you in advance! 

I had Linux installed for a few day now and im really enjoying it, I binned windows off for good and currently pick up Linux way of thinking and learning.

Tom

I have my Xbox360 wireless controller working without issue after following the instructions listed in the link below.
http://www.noobslab.com/2014/08/configur...-your.html

Here are the instructions if you don't want to link->


Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rael-gc/ubuntu-xboxdrv
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-xboxdrv
sudo service xboxdrv restart
USE this to configure- jstest-gtk     ---OR see below !

I had my wireless receiver connected as i did the above commands and it worked immediately.
It was the last one in the list for me, 4th. I had to remap some buttons.
<>I will update this post with mappings that worked for me.

How to create Joystick settings desktop shortcut
Here is how to create a desktop shortcut to the settings for the joystick-
1. Right click the desktop and a menu pops up.
2.Move mouse pointer to- create launcher and left click on it.
3.In the name feild put- joystick config
4.In the command feild put-  xterm jstest-gtk
5.Then left click- create button
* A dialog will appear asking what you want to do with it. Click --- make executable
* After you change mapping etc, be sure to save profiles to make it persistent.

If you want an icon for it that looks approriate just do this->
1.Left click on the icon
2.Left click-  properties
3.A window opens, the picture of the icon is available to Left click on. Click on that.
4.In the "select icon from" drop down menu select "Device Icons"
5.Scroll down to "input-gaming-symbolic" it looks like a game controller.
6.Click on "OK", window goes away then click "close"
Done

I hope this helps everyone playing games or using Steam with a Xbox360 wireless controller that came from Windoze.

Downloaded various desktop environments, gnome is one of them, to try with linux lite, but I'm unable to change environments. No icon is present, when I log out and log back in.