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    Thread: Lite Tweaks - Suggestions welcomed
Post: Re: Lite Tweaks - Suggestions welcomed

Thank you. My comment that the update is enabled in Linux Mint is outdated, and no longer true. I use this to enable updating inxi: Code: -- sudo sed -i 's/^B_ALLOW_UPDATE=false/B_ALLOW_UPDATE=tru...
AustinTexas Linux Lite Software Development 220 231,893 06-02-2016, 11:19 AM
    Thread: Legacy Mode Installation Using GPT Partitions
Post: Re: Legacy Mode Installation Using GPT Partitions

There is a little trick that you might want to use.  You can assign a hotkey to each menuentry when you edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg EXAMPLE: menuentry 'Korora 23 on /dev/sda4' --class gnu-linux --class g...
AustinTexas Tutorials 17 33,162 05-12-2016, 09:06 PM
    Thread: Legacy Mode Installation Using GPT Partitions
Post: Re: Legacy Mode Installation Using GPT Partitions

Editing the titles for the Grub menuentries is a chore. You would have to open /boot/grub/grub.cfg in your text editor. Code: -- gksudo leafpad /boot/grub/grub.cfg -- Then find each menuentry you wan...
AustinTexas Tutorials 17 33,162 05-12-2016, 03:47 PM
    Thread: Legacy Mode Installation Using GPT Partitions
Post: Re: Legacy Mode Installation Using GPT Partitions

Sure, you can. But you run into the potential problem that various distributions have different installation programs, and different methods of creating the partitions needed, so gparted might be the ...
AustinTexas Tutorials 17 33,162 05-11-2016, 11:45 AM
    Thread: Legacy Mode Installation Using GPT Partitions
Post: Re: Legacy Mode Installation Using GPT Partitions

m654321 link Wrote: (05-11-2016, 09:42 AM) -- Quote: -- I am not a fan of installing Grub to a partition. -- AustinTexas, does that mean you haven't created the 16MB Bios_grub partition on the GTP ...
AustinTexas Tutorials 17 33,162 05-11-2016, 10:23 AM
    Thread: How download package from LL repo (using synaptic) without gdebi installing it?
Post: Re: How download package from LL repo (using synap...

I don't know about Synaptic, but you can do it from the command line: Code: -- sudo aptitude --download-only install {program_name} --
AustinTexas Other 5 10,097 05-08-2016, 09:09 PM
    Thread: Legacy Mode Installation Using GPT Partitions
Post: Re: Legacy Mode Installation Using GPT Partitions

I have had up to 6 different linux OS's installed at one time. There is really nothing to be concerned about, except for the bootloader location. My first recommendation is that you download the Supe...
AustinTexas Tutorials 17 33,162 05-06-2016, 11:48 AM
    Thread: Legacy Mode Installation Using GPT Partitions
Post: Re: Legacy Mode Installation Using GPT Partitions

Just to add a tip on creating GPT partitions - when you make the final partition, leave 1 MB free (unallocated) at the end of the drive. This area is used by GPT partitioning to store a backup copy of...
AustinTexas Tutorials 17 33,162 05-05-2016, 02:12 PM
    Thread: NEW Linux Lite Website - BETA
Post: Re: NEW Linux Lite Website - BETA

Where should suggestions be submitted? Here?
AustinTexas Suggestions and Feedback 35 23,842 04-17-2015, 09:37 AM
    Thread: Samsung SCX-3405FW Printer
Post: Re: Samsung SCX-3405FW Printer

pauloz link Wrote: (03-12-2015, 01:47 AM) -- Hi AustinTexas Thanks for your time but after entering sudo ./install-printer.sh I got the message "Command not found". I had managed to extract the file...
AustinTexas Printing and Scanning 8 15,255 03-12-2015, 02:47 AM
    Thread: Samsung SCX-3405FW Printer
Post: Re: Samsung SCX-3405FW Printer

Driver: ULD_V1.00.27.04.tar.gz (same driver for SCX-3405FW and SCX-3405W) Go to samsung.com > Printers > Owners and Support > Downloads > Office > Printers > Black and White Multifunction Printers > ...
AustinTexas Printing and Scanning 8 15,255 03-11-2015, 04:09 PM
    Thread: Samsung SCX-3405FW Printer
Post: Re: Samsung SCX-3405FW Printer

I have a Samsung SCX-3405W I have never used it in Linux Lite (I only print about a dozen pages per year) but I will try to set it up, and give you the voodoo, assuming I am successful. I did get it w...
AustinTexas Printing and Scanning 8 15,255 03-11-2015, 02:35 PM
    Thread: Removing a Program
Post: Re: Removing a Program

N4RPS link Wrote: (03-11-2015, 11:36 AM) -- Sadly for your situation, it will auto-install at every startup, because support for the offending wireless chipset is built into the Linux kernel itself. ...
AustinTexas On Topic 6 6,513 03-11-2015, 02:05 PM
    Thread: Why Is My Computer Slowing Down?
Post: Re: Computer slowing down. I read there no defrag

What process do you believe is slowing down? Loading programs?
AustinTexas On Topic 15 13,331 03-11-2015, 01:57 PM
    Thread: Problems Making Live USB Stick with Unetbootin
Post: Re: Problems Making Live USB Stick with Unetbootin

If your aim is to "eventually install to the USB", you don't need a live DVD or USB to do that. Since you already have Linux Lite 2.2 installed on your hard drive, open the Whisker Menu and search for...
AustinTexas Installing Linux Lite 4 9,337 03-02-2015, 09:37 PM
    Thread: Lite Tweaks - Suggestions welcomed
Post: Re: Lite Tweaks - Suggestions welcomed

Thank you, misko_2083 Your command: sudo sed -i 's/^B_ALLOW_UPDATE=false/B_ALLOW_UPDATE=true/' /etc/inxi.conf worked to update inxi to Version 2.2.19 (which gives better results) I like the improveme...
AustinTexas Linux Lite Software Development 220 231,893 03-02-2015, 04:42 PM
    Thread: Lite Tweaks - Suggestions welcomed
Post: Re: Lite Tweaks - Suggestions welcomed

I would like to see Code: -- sudo inxi -U -- enabled in Linux Lite, as it is in Linux Mint.
AustinTexas Linux Lite Software Development 220 231,893 03-01-2015, 09:20 PM
    Thread: How Can I change the Root Password?
Post: Re: How Can I change the Root Password?

I don't think it is sudoers (or sudo) that is managing that function, I think it is Policykit. I find that password request to mount a partition annoying and unnecessary, also. I will see if I can fig...
AustinTexas Other 22 25,078 02-27-2015, 05:26 AM
    Thread: [Nearly SOLVED] Permissions in Thunar
Post: Re: [Nearly SOLVED] Permissions in Thunar

ukbrian link Wrote: (02-24-2015, 07:18 PM) -- I don't want to use the panal but I hit the properties of the "Action buttons" and got this screen which I set as shown, after I had 2 buttons at the bot...
AustinTexas Suggestions and Feedback 12 9,712 02-24-2015, 07:50 PM
    Thread: [Nearly SOLVED] Permissions in Thunar
Post: Re: Permissions in thunar

ukbrian link Wrote: (02-24-2015, 09:14 AM) -- I had this advice from secipolla when LMDE first started up, I like one click buttons on my desktop Code: -- secipolla sudo visudo me ALL=(root) NOPASSW...
AustinTexas Suggestions and Feedback 12 9,712 02-24-2015, 11:34 AM