Hi everyone! Hope you are all having a nice day 

I quite often reinstall my OS or install it on some older machines, so I thought it would be cool to automatize a lot of post installation stuff in a bash script(e.g. installing programs, customizing desktop). I'm relatively new to Linux, so it may be a stupid question, but there are 2 problems I don't know how to solve:

I found that installing software from Lite Software is easier and more convenient than downloading .deb files or adding repos manually. Can I somehow install software from Lite Software using only the terminal?

I usually customize the desktop panel, but I didn't found any resource about how to do that in terminal (e.g. setting panel size, font, adding new element, etc.).

Thank you for your replies in advance!

I finally got my new gaming laptop (Asus zephyrus m15) and after less than 5 minutes remembered why I despise windows. After a bit I got LL 5.2 installed. Thank you for making the needed drivers for the nvidia graphics card so easy to deal with. Looking forward to remaining with LL for a permanent OS.

Release Announcement

Linux Lite 5.4 RC1 is now available for testing. See below for details.



Changes:

New 'Installing Software - From a Terminal using APT' section for the Help Manual:



Updated Papirus icon theme



10 new Wallpapers of which 6 are from our resident artist [member=5059]whateverthing[/member]



Plus many other tweaks and changes.

Window Theme: Adapta
Icon Theme: Papirus
Font: Roboto Regular

How do I know if my Windows PC has UEFI?

In Windows Search, type msinfo or msinfo32 and launch the desktop app named System Information. Look for the BIOS Mode item, and if the value for it is UEFI, then you have the UEFI firmware. If it says BIOS Mode Legacy, then that’s the firmware you’re running.

Secure Boot is supported, but unless you know exactly how to handle it, it is a P.I.T.A. at best so I am going to say...you must disable Secure Boot to enable stress free computing.

Some helpful snippets from the latest Help Manual:






UEFI Support link - https://www.868212.xyz/forums/uefi-secure-boot/

Details:

Kernel: 5.4.0-66 ( custom kernels also available via our Repository for versions 3.13 - 5.11 )
Firefox: 85.0.1
Thunderbird: 78.10.0
LibreOffice: 6.4.6.2
VLC: 3.0.9.2
Gimp: 2.10.18
Base: 20.04.2

Known Issues:

No prompt to eject Media at the end of the Legacy install, prompt is available at the end of the UEFI install.
Release Notes - not working on first installer slide.
Desktop icons - English support only.
Grub - holding shift down whilst booting in UEFI mode does not bring up the Grub menu (works in Legacy mode), waiting for Ubuntu fix.
Grub menu shows Linux Lite as 'Ubuntu'. After you install Linux Lite, you can change Grub to show 'Linux Lite':

- Open /etc/default/grub as Administrator.
- Comment out: GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian` and leave GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR='Linux Lite' uncommented.
- Should look like:
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR='Linux Lite'
#GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
- sudo update-grub

You tell me.


There is no upgrade to or from RC releases. RC releases are for testing only and it is not recommended to run them as your main or secondary operating system.

Downloads:

HTTPS:

Download 64bit from here - Linux Lite 5.4 RC1 64bit
MD5SUM: cb47d085d121695d45ec1928d572f2a6
SHA256: f9e11f574712b6d972334b992d585527f3800a0ca7b6a1a1858315e65fea0599
Size: 1.4Gb (DVD, USB)

TORRENT: (Fastest way to download the RC)

64bit Torrent from here - linux-lite-5.4-rc1-64bit.iso.torrent
Hash: 044f49112ea936c83534d290d595df16fb1880a7
Size: 1.4Gb (DVD, USB)

Live USB/DVD/VirtualBox/Vmware:

Login is automatic, no credentials are required. The image can be written to a 2gb or larger USB stick, or a writable DVD. Alternatively, you can use the dd command: sudo dd if=linux-lite-5.4-rc1-64bit.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=4M where 'x' is the letter of your usb stick. In linux to find out the letter of your usb stick, open a terminal and type: df -h It is usually listed as 'media' or similar. Please see the built in Help Manual if you require a more detailed explanation of this procedure.

A good, simple point and click USB ISO burner is https://www.balena.io/etcher/ or https://rufus.ie/
In our testing, Etcher and Rufus (for Windows only) have proven to be the most reliable. Etcher is available for Mac, Windows & Linux.

If the screen locks during Live mode, type linux into the user box and click on the Login button (no password required)

Minimum Recommended Specs:
1Ghz processor
768mb ram
8gb HDD/SD
VGA screen capable of 1024x768 resolution
DVD drive or USB port for the ISO image

Preferred Specs:
1.5GHz processor+
1024mb ram+
20gb HDD/SSD+
VGA, DVI or HDMI screen capable of 1366x768 resolution+
DVD drive or USB port for the ISO image

Login to the live desktop is automatic.

The first thing you MUST do after a fresh install of Linux Lite is run Menu, Favorites, Install Updates.

As this is a RC release, there are bound to be bugs etc. Please help make the final stable for other people by participating in this RC. Please report any bugs and feedback in this thread.


Thank you

Jerry and the team.

Sometimes when I press Alt + Tab to switch between open windows the display zooms in, almost like a magnifier app.
The display then pans around with the cursor.

The only way to fix it is to restart.

Is this a known bug or have I accidentally pressed some magic key combo for turning on the magnifier?

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System is LL 4.8. After updating today and then rebooting, the machine stuck in the spinning wheel phase. I finally got the Grub screen after messing with various options, but nothing I tried would let me boot so I restored the system using a 12 day old Clonezilla image, which, LUCKILY, worked.

But now I don't dare update the system again. What happened?

How do i manually set up system wide proxy settings?
Thank you. 

Hello,

I have the layout set to Portuguese (standard) and the keyboard is not mapped correctly.
I have to go into the Keyboard settings, change to a different layout and then change back to Portuguese to get the correct layout.

I have to do this every time I boot to get the correct layout. Can someone please tell me what I need to do to get this to stick?

  After a failed update I restarted my PC and end up stuck at the login screen, but the system was configured to start without the login screen, and so it did until I had this problem.
  When I type my password the screen only gets dark for a moment and I get redirected to the login screen again. (Yes I'm sure that I'm typing the right password, I've already tested with a wrong one).
  I have some work that I really can't lose on it, so just reinstaling it is not an option, unless I could access and copy those files to a flash drive, but if I could just solve this problem it will be perfect.

  I'm a rookie when it comes to linux, so any advice will be greatly apprecieted.

Hi forum.
I just happens to stumble over this video on youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3px2vVWFuRg

Sadly it turns out that there are some dishonest people out there taking advance of this wonderful Linux distro  - re-branding and selling it as "windows 12".