I think a Gui based man page browser would help a lot of former windows users get used to using linux.
It seems to be hard to find a man page for a particular function if you don't know the name to look for.
A browser that lists bash commands and installed man pages would be very helpful. At least in my opinion.
In my opinion 
LL is lacking a photo organizer/manager such as gThumb,Shotwell or similar.
This could be part of the main menu or at least part of the "install additional software"
This would be useful for users migrating from windows. As most must have a shed load of digital images.
My preference is gThumb.
Keith
Might help some reading the comments
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/15/02/18/1...extensions
Hi,
Thought I would set up one of my PC's with Date/Time synced to NTP Server.
So my internet connection is fine, and I can ping the ntp servers listed: http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/uk
I add one of the ntp servers, it says "Checking" and it lists it... I can ping it...
But when I come to close the page, it errors out... UFW Firewall is in-active.
Any ideas..??
Thanks.
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Just made my d-u & saw this update .
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
I am an Xfce lover so this is very, very welcome news Ikey getting xfce ported to GTK3 even though he's got his own Budgie desktop and he's rewritting his base.
Love the man!!
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The /etc/skel directory contains files and directories that are automatically copied over to a new user's Home directory when such user is created by the useradd program.
A home directory, also called a login directory, is the directory on LL that serves as the repository for a user's personal files, directories and programs, including personal configuration files.
Here is what happened:
- I've opened two .desktop files, alacarte-made-8.desktop and alacarte-made-9.desktop, in /home/misko/.local/share/applications/ in order to change the default icons to the ones that a user submited in this thread
- Changed the lines Icon=... to
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/enable.pngIcon=/usr/share/pixmaps/disable.png- Restarted the panel
dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.xfce.Panel /org/xfce/Panel org.xfce.Panel.Terminate boolean:trueI remember there was a couple threads where the users claimed they can't remove items from the whisker menu. This is related to that.
So something is wrong in the configuration, and that is this file /home/misko/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menu
grep "/etc/skel" $HOME/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menu
<AppDir>/etc/skel/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
<AppDir>/etc/skel/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
<AppDir>/etc/skel/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
<AppDir>/etc/skel/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
<AppDir>/etc/skel/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
<AppDir>/etc/skell/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
<AppDir>/etc/skel/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
<AppDir>/etc/skel/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
<AppDir>/etc/skel/.local/share/applications</AppDir>Next command will change all occurances of /etc/skel to /home/user_name
sed -i 's!/etc/skel!'$HOME'!g' $HOME/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menudbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.xfce.Panel /org/xfce/Panel org.xfce.Panel.Terminate boolean:truegrep "/home" $HOME/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menu
<AppDir>/home/misko/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
<AppDir>/home/misko/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
<AppDir>/home/misko/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
<AppDir>/home/misko/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
<AppDir>/home/misko/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
<AppDir>/home/misko/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
<AppDir>/home/miskol/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
<AppDir>/home/misko/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
<AppDir>/home/misko/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
<AppDir>/home/misko/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
<AppDir>/home/misko/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
<AppDir>/home/misko/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
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