There are too many threads these days that are straying way off topic. As an example, if someone starts a thread asking for help on 'Printers' please resist the temptation to start talking about 'Volume Control' or your favorite cheese. This especially confuses new people to linux who are looking for brevity and good clear instructions.

In the future unrelated posts will simply be deleted without notice.

Thank you

Hi, I'm a Linux Lite 1.0.2 user that has it installed on an old Compaq Armada e500 laptop. It is great for an antique like that, but now that I want to upgrade it to the latest version I see that it only fits on usb drives. As being a lite Linux distribution I always thought it would be kept lightweight. The thing is my laptop can't boot from usb and although it's fixable using Plop, that unique usb port is broken. Now I've installed a pcmcia usb expansion card, but this would not boot from that nor would it from Plop. So my last chance is to boot from a cd. Is there a way to shrink it down?

I want written a Whisker type menu with a few twists in lazarus so it will compile for Linux and Windows.

Once the basics are done I expect to be able to tweak it myself, I just can't do original code, I have done a bit in Visual Basic but my two pages of if's etc coding generally gets rewritten to a few short paragraphs by a real coder.

It will be a working prototype for Ikey Docherty as he wants to separate the menu from the panel, who knows he might continue developing it or rewrite it in java/javascript or in html5.

I just want to demonstate my ideas to him he's already put a few of my ideas into his panel.

The desktop is the main menu and it has'nt changed/evolved in any significant way since win95

This guy's into material design https://plus.google.com/113262712329378697012/posts

These are some icon pics I made from an existing icon already on my system.  Hopefully they will be usable for replacements for enable auto-login and disable auto-login icons. These are not technically icons, but should be able to be used as icons. They were saved as .png so they should have transparency around the borders.





If these are not what the team is looking for let me know and I might be able to come up with something better. 

First of all hello. I am a new user to Linux Lite and i am enjoying it alot. I installed the 32bit on my old Dell Inspirion 6000 and i been having a fun time with it. I had no problem install the updates or anything and getting wine to install. But on my HP 2000-2b19wm i install Linux Lite 2.2 64 Bit and it has been problems central. The install updates thing kept on crashing on me doing the libraoffice install. I finally got it to fully install yesterday. Now i install the Additional software things like Java, and Virtual Box and everything else. But, when it comes to WINE it will do the install thing but then say "sorry wine will not install".

Is there something wrong that i am doing? Or should i just give up and finally just put 32bit on there? My own problem with that is that i wanted a computer i can put 64bit Linux Lite on it and get it to work. I been trying for two weeks before i finally made an account and researched the internet for this as well to see if anyone else was having a problem, but i guess i am the only one. Please help if you can with this issue. Thanks in advance.

Maybe of interest to the LL Amateur Radio OP's here... 73 - G8LIY (Dave)

http://www.dj0abr.de/english/technik/dds..._luxus.htm


http://wsprnet.org/drupal/node/5277

I have had problems with the brightness on my laptop. I found this:http://www.geekssharingspace.org/2013/11...-your.html
and it just works perfectly with LL 2.2 

Since I first started using Linux, I have been disappointed to find that most of the distros that I have tried don't really come with a "Control Panel" like is found in other operating systems, and usually the settings are found scattered throughout the menus and can be hard to find or easy to overlook. Today I decided to see what I could do to fix this.

First I created a new hidden folder on the desktop which I named ".Control".  I then created an application launcher on the desktop which starts thunar file manager in the /home/username/Desktop/.Control  directory, by using this in the command line for the launcher: thunar /home/username/Desktop/.Control    I then named the launcher "Control Center" and chose an icon for it, and clicked create.  The next step was to open the .Control folder in the file manager and drag and drop the items from the settings menu into the folder. After each drag and drop right click on the new item in the folder and mark as executable. I am including two pictures below to show the final results.


Hopefully this will help make it easier to find the settings I am looking for and maybe help others too. 

Hi

The "one gig" is the memory on the machine, the install was on an 8 gig Sandisk usb.
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I have a widescreen t.v. that I use for "morning coffee, check the mail, calendar and rss feeds".

I also use it as a "music server" in that I normally listen to SOMA fm  orrr....one of my, as with most Linux people, HUGE collection of cds.

I use the old "gyration" "airmouse" and small form factor keyboard so that I don't have to "have the mouse on a pad".

I do this so that I can stand up, while drinking some tea or coffee and going back and forth to the kitchen to make breakfast etc.

I find it rather "refreshing" to not have to "sit down at a terminal" to do stuff, I can wander over to the door and take a look out at the river by the apartment complex, etc.

I am a very BIG fan of Kubuntu, and it has been my work machine for lo these many years, but, well,

a) Kubuntu works great but I really did just want something ......."differnt" on the screen and also...

I started using the whole Kontact PIM, but, hey........it has all moved to the SMARTPHONE!! lol........ my, my how things have changed....yes, if I need to do serious business on e-mail, calendaring, etc. I go to the Kubu machine but this is well, early morning stuff! lol

b) If anyone knows my history, I've donated hundreds of machines with Linux on them and always had to get by with squeezing the most out of the least as it were.

So......as a lark, I thought I try to find

i) a good looking distro in terms of viewing on a large screen from usually ten feet away or so,
ii) a distro that was "keeping itself up to date".
iii) that had......well.......... a different "flair".
iv)....... was......going back to my roots......able to be made "small" or "small in and of itself".

My first thought was TinyMe because of the size and also the particular way that the icon set was arranged, etc. it was on a .... 6.4 gig...lol......and it worked.....but it was waay out of date, I did not know that the original developer had moved on, and it wouldn't play a .pls file..so I could not enable repos etc.

So, I started looking around and discovered a distro which I had not seen before...Linux Lite! :0

So, I downloaded the i386 and installed it on an 8gig usb drive using the "startup disk creator" app and it did fine.

a) the machine I use for the t.v. has a great video processor on it but it is old..., a Gateway that has more usb ports, and ssd ports, and you name it ports. so if I want to view images on cards that I took while scuba diving etc...

The machine started with all of the older, white text on black information and then stalled at "insert bootable dvd".

So, since I'm a hardware kinda guy.........  

i removed the usb drive and reinserted it and guess what.........Linux Lite ......"perceived" that a.....DVD had been put in a tray and away it went!

Again.......an old machine...

It took about two minutes to load.

YOU GUYS DID THE RIGHT THING........recommended that I update first thing......

ummmm wrong first thing to do on THIS particular install! lol

It "updated" ..........took about a HALF HOUR...............

restarted but......could not get on the net because of "no disk space"........lol............

So......I reinstalled it......

and instead of updating........

i removed Libre Office and GIMP and then updated.........and things are going swimmingly!

I even have the blue backgroud with the feather on it! lol

Hey ............

I ) The distro has a certain "crispness" to the appearance which I, personally, like.
II ) In terms of the old teacher in me I just LOVE......LOVE.......LOVE.........the VERBOSE DESCRIPTIONS........ of what the apps etc. do.......

I, PERSONALLY, think that this is ABSOLUTELY what is needed to introduce the new person from Windblows to Linux........

Great job devs!

woodsmoke

Hi all;
I apologize up front for the question but the Hardware database I found liists only relatively few computers.

Is there a hardware database that can be queried?

For example search for "RTL8187" to see if there are drivers anywhere for either a Realtek RTL8187B or the RTL8187SE wireless laptop adapters?

I have a Gateway M-1617 (model W650A) laptop and LL does not detect the wireless NIC. Ethernet is working perfectly and, as I expected, Gateway is more of a problem  than help.

TIA in advance
Eike
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