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Release Announcements / Re: Linux Lite 3.8 Beta Released

« on: January 15, 2018, 09:28:10 PM »

This is some awesome collaboration here!

@Jerry I'm not able to change the size of the OpzenZone cursors

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Release Announcements / Re: Linux Lite 3.8 Beta Released

« on: January 15, 2018, 02:01:33 PM »

@Jerry Thanks for looking into this. The OpenZone cursor theme is quite nice and not too flashy (in my opinion). https://github.com/ducakar/openzone-cursors

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Scripting and Bash / Ten Things I Wish I’d Known About bash

« on: January 07, 2018, 02:12:48 PM »

Good blog post by Ian Miell that I stumbled upon.

https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/01/06/ten-things-i-wish-id-known-about-bash/

Here's one of his tips:

Have you ever done something like this?

$ grep somestring file1 > /tmp/a
$ grep somestring file2 > /tmp/b
$ diff /tmp/a /tmp/b

That works, but instead you can write:

diff <(grep somestring file1) <(grep somestring file2)

Isn’t that neater?

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Off Topic / Re: Music Thread

« on: January 07, 2018, 12:52:51 PM »

I've been diggin' Perturbator's new sounds. If you like synthwave/retrowave then this might be up your alley. Fast forward to 1:20 if you're looking for the action.

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Release Announcements / Re: Linux Lite 3.8 Beta Released

« on: December 30, 2017, 03:50:54 PM »

Hi Jerry, for some reason the mouse theme is not persistent for me. I have it set black but it returns to white after a reboot.

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Suggestions and Feedback / Re: Linux Lite 3.8 Suggestions welcomed

« on: December 30, 2017, 03:46:46 PM »

I haven't found a way to do that yet.

You may want to fork the Ubuntu Mate Plymouth theme. One nice thing about it is that it creates a gradient background in the code instead of an image. All you'd have to do is replace the images with LL versions and change the color variables. From what I can tell you use #FFE97F (rgb 255, 233, 127) at the top and #7F6A00 (rgb 127, 106, 0) at the bottom of the background. As I understand it you need to divide each rgb value by 256 to get the correct decimal value in the code like this:

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Window.SetBackgroundTopColor (0.9960, 0.9101, 0.4960);
Window.SetBackgroundBottomColor (0.4960, 0.4140, 0.0);


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Suggestions and Feedback / Re: Linux Lite 3.8 Suggestions welcomed

« on: December 29, 2017, 09:08:18 PM »

Nice work on LL, Jerry! Any chance you could add a password field to the LVM/LUKS login? Currently it's just the GRUB background image and there's no indication that a password should be entered. Luckily I figured it out. :-)

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Installing Linux Lite / Re: Linux Lite 3.0 on a Netbook

« on: June 12, 2016, 10:55:11 PM »

I have an Acer chromebook so I can relate. As JmaCWQ mentioned, it's probably best to disable processes that you don't use much. For me personally, I disable the Network (nm-applet) and bluetooth (blueman-applet) applets. Those two alone use almost 100MB of ram. Even though the network indicator isn't showing, you'll still be connected to your router. You can verify that with a quick ping in terminal. I've even contemplated getting rid of lightdm too.

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Release Announcements / Re: Linux Lite 3.0 Final Released

« on: June 01, 2016, 03:24:28 PM »

If it helps (for future users) I believe the username is Linux... password is blank.. I too came across this - its also listed in upper left most corner of the login screen (pc name  )..

I tried that but I think I used a lowercase L since most distros don't capitalize the usernames. I could have figured it out if I dropped to tty but this seemed like it might be an issue for new users to Linux in general.

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Release Announcements / Re: Linux Lite 3.0 Final Released

« on: June 01, 2016, 03:20:39 PM »

But in LL 3.0 it's missing & the right click option to minimise from the panel button is greyed out.

This may have been a change in Xfce 4.12 which LL3 is now using. I believe you can hide the window by clicking on the folder icon in the notification area. Not sure why they hid the minimize button in the transfer dialog though...seems odd.

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Release Announcements / Re: Linux Lite 3.0 Final Released

« on: June 01, 2016, 02:45:26 PM »

Congrats to everyone involved! LL3 is another fine release.

One issue that I did run into was during installation. I left my laptop for a short time and when I came back the screen had gone black (screensaver?). After touching a key I was presented with the login screen. I didn't know the default live system credentials so I waited a bit until I was sure the installation was complete. Is there any way to disable to screensaver logout during installation?

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Installing Linux Lite / Re: How do I change the password on LL 3.0?

« on: June 01, 2016, 02:39:57 PM »

Sorry if this is in the wrong section.

How do I change my password in LL 3.0?  I tried Menu>Settings>User Interface (something like that).  The "Change Password" button doesn't do anything.

I can confirm this behavior. I took a quick peek at the source code for liteusermanager and wonder if it's something to do with pexpect. I guess we'll have to wait for Jerry or John to weigh in.

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Other / Re: Is using Flashplayer risky for Linux Lite - should I use HTML5 instead?

« on: May 20, 2016, 04:26:48 PM »

@m654321: For now one could argue that Linux is relatively more secure than Windows when running Flash. However, it's probably best to avoid using it when possible as it's only a matter of time until vulnerabilities are discovered on *nix machines.

@torreydale: I recommend checking out speedof.me - it uses HTML5.

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Release Announcements / Re: Linux Lite 3.0 Beta Released

« on: May 17, 2016, 07:47:23 PM »

Thanks, Jerry! I can confirm the slider is working now for me.

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On Topic / Re: SourceForge thinks Linux Lite 3.0 Beta is malware

« on: May 17, 2016, 10:05:15 AM »

Another way to go about it is to just use torrents. Ibiblio has a service called terasaur to host the iso files.