Don't get me wrong, I am a big Firefox fan and have been for many many years. I remember using it when it was called "Firebird" before they were forced to change the name.

But now, it seems like a resource hog to me. In order to use flash you need to use the outdated flash plugin for linux. And when you do I noticed resource usage jumps depending on the page you visit (with flash animation ads, etc). Yeah, you can turn off the plugin and turn it on when you need it, buy why should anyone need to do this. I am sure when the entire internet moves to HTML5 life will be better...but that may take some time

As most know, recently Netflix natively supports Google Chrome by default. This is GREAT news...something I did not expect to happen at all to be quite honest. I have been yearning for native Netflix support in Linux for years now. Now it is a reality. Not having Netflix in the past was one of the main reasons most of the people I know would not leave Windows believe it or not. I know the Mozilla team has their reasons for not working with the Netflix DRM, but honestly it is killing them. The average user does not care about the underlying controversy. They just want to watch stuff on Netflix. Now that is a non-issue thankfully. Not to mention that Chrome has the latest flash technologies embedded in the browser. No plugin needed. And it feels faster than Firefox.

Again, I have been a Firefox fan for more years than I can remember and I am not a huge fan of Google products....but I have to look at it from a usability standpoint. Chrome works out of the box (without added plugins) for more of the internet as we know it today. It is faster and not nearly as much of a resource hog. It is worked on much more often. It just works.

I think it should be the default browser with Firefox as an optional download. Just my opinion.

Overnight, my menu has changed:







Install LL updates is gone; install/remove software is gone and the LL manual has also disappeared...what have i done now??

This uses the LL artwork banner, 3 photos (added community of Penguins to the rock), all photos used are free for commercial and non commercial use, no attribution required.
On first version uploaded I didn't do the beach very well, ended up re-colouring all of it apart from the seaweed which I managed to retain and blend in, so the sand lost its textured look.
This version has the beach correct, also I managed to get the additional penguin in near the rock from the original rock image.
Font used was "Liberation" 

I work so much that I really haven't been able to do much of any gaming on LL2.0, although I have it all set up to do so. I mainly use:

Steam (of course)
Mame v0.154 (with QMC2 frontend)
Mess 0.154 (With QMC2 as well)
Retroarch (emulator frontend with multiple emu cores...plays dozens of systems)
FS-UAE (Amiga emulator, with FS-UAE launcher)
Vice (Commodore 8-bit)
ScummVM (Lucas/Sierra interpreter)
Dolphin (Wii/GC emulator)

And I run it all on:

Pentium G3450 Haswell
Gigabyte GA-Z97N-Wifi
8GB DDR3 PC3-10666 1333mhz
500GB Sata HD (not an SSD)
Another 500GB SATA. and yet another 4TB external storing most games
Geforce GTX 460 (OEM Nvidia)
Microsoft Xbox 360 wireless controller "for Windows" (Plug and play in LL!)
Wii remote (for Dolphin, works great with BT)

The system as you can see is not the best of the best spec wise, but no slouch either. I get pretty solid performance in any OS (Windows 8 or Linux), but in Linux Light it takes it a step further. The performance increase is so substantial that I don't think I could bear to go to another distro.

I basically just wanted to point out that Linux Lite is not only for "old computers". I never really hear people talking about using it in higher powered machines for solid emulation and modern gaming. This is the best distro (ubuntu based that is) for gaming on a modern gaming rig in my honest opinion. All of those extra resources that would have been used to give you a heavy desktop are being re-routed into your gaming experience

Anyone else using emulators in LL? Retroarch is incredible.

Basis of my first try at wallpapers, it's my second try at gimp, I call him "Halloween Buddha".
The original stock image (free for commercial and non commercial use, no attribution required) is of a buddha outline only, in orange lines, on top of a photo of a pier by the sea, you can see this on GimpChat in Halloween thread. I made it a white outline and insides for a future project.
I then made him into a 3d (sort of) instead of line drawing, "Halloween Buddha", it reminds me more of a Demonic or Ghost Warrior sitting in meditation before battle, I made with nice subtle hints of colours through his robes.
I made feather text last week, and also many of graffiti texts , one is shown below, in an online method, then tweaked it in Gimp, change colour resized, added inner/outer colour and etc.
I posted Halloween Buddha on GimpChat today, whilst making the wallpaper I also noticed his head needed reshaping was flat as I cropped too tightly, so this are the only version with reshaped curved head so far.
Finally I made logo of repeated "LL" out of feather text and blended this together and reduced opacity, to make it look like Chinese "style/effect", placing this floating above the magical hands in front of the heart, coz he is a wise and loves LL.
Just different option with/without components of that.

I don't know about you guys, but my 0.8.3-1 broke recently on both of my installs. No data with a ? is all I get on the taskbar.
I checked to make sure using a different location than my small town by using a major city.
Still no readout.

So I went to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc...ug/1380128

and saw I was not the only one. I completely removed 0.8.3-1 xfce4-weather-plugin from my install via synaptic.
I downloaded http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/i386/x...n/download
which is the .deb for Utopic Ubuntu which is 0.8.3-2 xfce4-weather-plugin

I had previously removed weather plugin from my xfce taskbar. So after I installed the new downloaded .deb with gdebi (with the warning I ignored about a older version available in package manager). I added the new xfce weather plugin. Now my weather is displayed again
in the taskbar.



I am a on the edge type of linux user and I am not afeared of breaking my installs. Running newer packages are frowned upon
usually as it can cause conflicts on upgrading. Me. I do not care as I am skilled at running Debian Sid/unstable installs on my other
gear. So now that you have been warned. That is how I fixed my broken xfce weather plugin.

Hello,

this is a solution to a task I came across last night, thought I would share with any others who do not already know.

I installed Brasero, and decided to uninstall it and persist with Xfburn.
I installed Brasero via Synaptic, and to uninstall I used Synaptic, when I marked for install it brought down multiple other files, when I marked it for Full Removal it only removed 1 file Brasero, I could see 2 others named Brasero below it that were still installed.

So I began to look through all the tabs, and noticed there is a History item in the File menu, clicking this produces a GUI with the month/s in the left column, if one is clicked (on arrow) it drops down revealing all installs and uninstalls by date and order during that month, each can be clicked individually
Locating the Brasero install it displayed a list of all the files Brasero had installed with itself.
I was then able to use Synaptic's search function, with this History window open,  to quickly find and remove these one at a time to tidy up.

As I had made other installs last night I realized, when using Synaptic if we only install 1 program at a time, including accepting to install any others it needs to install with itself.
If after Applying this install, you then begin another install of a different program, the two programs and their dependent files will be on separate batches of actions in the History GUI as Apply was pressed separate for each program, so it allows you to do the uninstalls as described above, knowing these are relating to the specific program, which will be at the top of the list and the dependent files below it. 

I thought this may be useful for others if you are installing/uninstalling to find a program you like, and it wouldn't leave lots of no longer needed files around that may become a cause of problems.

Sorry for long winded way of describing this.
Hope someone else finds it useful.

Hello,

I tried last night to burn an mp3 to audio cd using Xfburn, it gave errors and would not begin this task, based upon the errors stating something was missing from gstreamer I had a look in Synaptic and tried various gstreamer plugins for Xfburn, eventually I found the correct ones so I was able to complete the task.
As there are several gstreamer files, I thought I would make this thread in case anyone else wanted to do this task, so it saves you having to do a trial and error testings.

In Synaptic these are the things you need to install -

gstreamer0.10-plugins-good (0.10.31-3+nmu1ubuntu5)
gstreamer0.10-x (0.10.36-1.1ubuntu2)

When you select the first item it will automatically tick the second item.
The errors now cease and Xfburn will accept your mp3's to burn as audio cds.

I originally had a multiple boot system with the operating systems of 4 distros on sda (all based on ubuntu), while the swap area and shared DATA partition were on sdb.  This worked well.  I then decided to set (up on 2nd laptop a Win 7 - LL2 dual boot): again a separate shared DATA partition was set up to allow filesharing between Windows 7 & LL2. Again this is worked well,  binding both "My_Documents" in win7 and the Directories in  /home of LL2 to the separate /mnt/DATA partition. 

However I experienced a problem with binding two more ubuntu-based distros on sda, in addition to the  LL2, and Win 7 on sda, to bind with /mnt/DATA on sdb. The two additional distros wont bind, though Win7 and LL2 remain successfully bound.

I have checked the "bind-home.conf" files that I created for the two additional distros but these look fine, as well as the /etc/fstab files that were set up.

When I try to mount /mnt/DATA, using the terminal, I get the following message for either additional distro:


m-z9@z9-AsusX71Q:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/DATA
[sudo] password for m-z9:
Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened.
The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which
could be identified for example by the help of the 'fuser' command.

Is the presence of Win7 making the binding exclusive, i.e. it will only allow one other distro to share /mnt/DATA with it? Wondered if anyone else had experienced this and if there is a way around it?  I have no experience of the fuser command and what this means. 

Many thanks in advance for any help with this.
Kind regards
Mike

Definitely for a newcomer to Linux Lite, this video will take a newly installed LL desktop to a customized desktop. Minimal effort and skill required.

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