Linux Lite 8.2 RC1 Released - Click here to read



Posted by: jerobero500
04-09-2015, 10:54 AM
Forum: Installing Software
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[quoI;v installed about 4 icon themes in  terminal  from noobslab and am unable to update the icon cache.
Or is this even important?  I have tried searching everything for cure, anybody found a solution?  All these themes cant be bad. Or poorly designed.  I must be doing something wrong. Any suggestions?

  [root@jeff2-RF800AA-ABA-SR2011WM-NA680:/home/jeff2# gtk-update-icon-cache /home/jeff2/.icons/AwOken-100050150/
gtk-update-icon-cache: Failed to open file /home/jeff2/.icons/AwOken-100050150/.icon-theme.cache : File existste]



Posted by: Monkeyman
04-09-2015, 10:39 AM
Forum: Other
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I'm trying to save a few pics from the mighty web.  They save fine but I can't view them.  The viewer says, "Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x3c 0x21)".  The file properties show the pic name as: DCF1020.jpeg meaning it's a .jpeg.  Both the thumbnail and the pic in the viewer just shows a red circle with a line through it.

What gives?  How do I fix this?  I'm trying to d/l some legit pics of some old friends.



Posted by: jnektar
04-08-2015, 04:59 PM
Forum: Other
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Ok i'm a beginner. I installed unrar but the only unrar code i know is x  which unrars to /home/linuxlite.  I  have my rar files on a usb pen. How do i unrar them to the usb pen? I did check the man page but only e seemed relevant but that just unrars to home as well. What is the point of x and e then?  >Sad



Posted by: ChrisL
04-08-2015, 02:14 PM
Forum: Off Topic
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Although I have newer machines I use, I have a couple older Pentium 4 boxes (2.66 and 2.8 Ghz, 533 bus (both), 2 Gb ram on both) that I like playing around with. I dual boot as there are some XP games that won't run on Wine.  I don't go on-line with the XP side due to security concerns, etc so frequently go on-line with the Linux side. 


I have tried a bunch of Distros on these machines, especially those with low system requirements.  Usually these run quite well and fast until I hit the icon to pull up a browser ... then it takes forever to get a browser window open.  Once open it will take forever to pull up Gmail,etc.  Obviously if it's Chrome or a similar browser it is somewhat quicker the next time as it's running something in the background, but still slow.


I was recently watching the resource usage when I hit the browser icon and the CPU did not max out (pretty close though 90+%, the memory did not max out, no swap used.  So, based on this I figured it's limited by bus speed or something and that's as good as it is going to get.  I am always trying new Distros though, more of a hobby than anything , and last week I loaded a Debian-testing based Distro, I think it was Sparky Linux, and the browsers (relatively) screamed! I would say they came up 5X faster than on the Ubuntu releases tried, and once up loading new pages was faster!  After a couple days of trouble with Sparky though I gave up.  For whatever reason Debian does not seem to run well on these older boxes of mine and I getinto enless loops, can't load drivers, etc.  I liked the speed though, so tried some more Debian based Distros, the last I tried was a Makulu Distro.  I really liked it, but again had some issues and gave up.  Then I noticed that Makulu had a Ubuntu based Distro, and figured "what the heck ..." and tried that.  I seems stable, and the browsers are quite fast.  I should note that most of these Distros tried (incl. Makulu) used xfce (or a similar lightweight DE if the Distro did not have xfce as an option).


So, what's the deal ... why do browsers run faster in Debian (even though I can't use them), and why are browsers running much faster on Makulu (7.1) Ubuntu based than other Ubuntu based Distros I have tried?  This would lead me to believe that a lot of the speed issue I am experiencing is due to OS/software not my old hardware.  What effects browser speed (way beyond my knowledge but I find it puzzling)?  Anyone have and ideas, just curious more than anything?


Chris 



Posted by: santisteban
04-08-2015, 01:40 PM
Forum: Off Topic
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Hello Smile

i'm writing with my Girl-Friend on a FB (know that it's not segure ://  ) , but we
are not some terro/ activists Tongue

and in KDE / Fire Fox , on FB there's a "bar/list" on the right side , where are all
(friends) "conocidos" and when some1 is logged in there are two opt. - green
"web" + DOT or green "cell" / "cellular" + DOT / point

but recently there has started 2 happen? a strange "flowers" / things  :
"She" or next to her name (she's always writes from a cell phone)
there appear not a "cell" (cellular ) but only green Dot / point , or a
"web" (net / cpu) and Dot or only "1 min."

it is strange because "She" appears as a "web" only somtimes ...
and sometimes as a "cell" , 4 most cases as a (green) Dot  ://
should i be worry , can some1 (listen/ spy) Us ??

                                                                            regards , santis Smile                           




Posted by: rokytnji
04-07-2015, 10:34 PM
Forum: Off Topic
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Having my own motorcycle shop. These kind of things irk the hell out of me.

http://www.slrlounge.com/beware-new-bad-...ographers/

So the next time you read a bad review for a service provided.

Just be aware of this.

In my neck of the woods. The email says the price is 300 bucks not to be attacked.
Screw em.



Posted by: demag
04-07-2015, 09:09 PM
Forum: Other
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I thought I set my keyboard up as UK during the install however certain key presses give the wrong results. Pressing the @ key gives " and vice verse. There may be others that I haven't noticed. How can I reset to the UK keyboard driver?
Thanks.



Posted by: gibbo
04-07-2015, 06:55 PM
Forum: Installing Linux Lite
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Hi
Pretty new to Linux Lite and am enjoying using it and getting used to it
One question please Updating ..How do you know when to update Linux Lite there seems to be no indication anywhere when updates are available like another Linux Distro i use ..is it just when you log on you hit  update or am i missing something
Many Thanks



Posted by: DLX
04-07-2015, 05:01 PM
Forum: Start up and Shutdown
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Hi again did try and work this out for myself! But taking time  :-[
Trying get firewall to startup I found the startup box and have added firewall program and have ticked box ticked but it doesn't load.

On old computer I think I did the same steps and it worked sometimes.
I would like firewall to load and I not have to put in password.

I'm I going to have to type code in Terminal to make this work?
See screenshot of startup popup box.

Thanks

[img height=456 width=399]https://db.tt/Ger9Adlh[/img]



Posted by: Earthenware
04-07-2015, 01:06 PM
Forum: Other
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Is there any way that I can permanently move (and preferably resize) the terminal window?

If I'm going to be doing a lot of terminal work then I can do this manually at the beginning of each session, but if I'm using Geany to compile C++ it opens a new terminal window every time I compile and run (and if you are a terrible programmer like me, that's a lot).

I've been through the settings menu but I can't see anything that gives me the desired result.