Well 14 yrs of linux and I got to say this is the best one yet!!
Ubuntu was always good ,because it has awesome updates, and repositories, but it has become way to heavy, same thing with a lot of others... keeping things LITE! just seems to be the way Linux likes to run.... Don`t you agree?
My name is NANOBITE, if you have any questions feel free to ask..


.......I...AM....HERE....TO....LEARN.....

My Wifi is working to my Router OK --I am connected to write this

I am not getting the Network Manager Icon on my Panel  so I cannot see what other Wifi networks are available or turn-off wifi etc

Tried reinstalling the network managers in Synaptic

Did an upgrade

Tried http://www.webupd8.org/2014/04/fix-lubun...nager.html -- directed there from Ubuntu Forum

Quote:To fix the Network Manager not showing up on the panel issue, from the Lubuntu menu select Preferences > Default applications for LXSession, then click on the Autostart tab and under "Manual autostarted applications" type "nm-applet", then click the "+ Add" button on the left:

While I appreciate the power of this program and other lightweight graphics programs (for example mtpaint) does it belong in this distro, where the front page of the website propounds LL's 'simple intuitive design'? To me, it's interface is quirky and grates with the other programs that ship with LL. Given that GIMP is included and that it can do most if not all of what ImageMagick can, what purpose does the latter serve?

Please understand that this is just feedback, not criticism.. I can happily ignore the program or remove it

Paul

PS Whether or not it belongs in LL, I don't understand why it's menu entry has '(display)' after the program name - what does that mean?

Another UK user here.

I've used Puppy on and off since 2005, Fedora six months or so then Mint 13 & 17 for the last year or so (which we now use at work instead of Windows). I bought a new laptop a few months back when I decided to stop using Windows at home and I've been looking for something stable with LTS, so probably Ubuntu based, but  more nimble than Mint. From what I've seen so far Linux Lite seems to fit the bill nicely 

Paul

Hi,
I find that the default network mgr only displays bars and no percentage for indicating the wifi signal strength. The bars are not a very precise. Is there an alternative setting or network mgr that will give me a more accurate display of my available wifi networks strengths?

BTW: I finally made the big switch! LL is now my main OS. I have a dual boot Packard Bell Easynote TK with a small Win 7 partition for fallback when I need to work on clients Windoze OSs. The install was flawless, the updates all succeeded, all very nice. I didn't have as much luck with an old Fijitsu running 500MB RAM. That is back to XP till I get more RAM.

Cheers for this new release!
mannshands

Update: Checked the additional hardware depository and found a widget that displays the current connection strength as a percent. But at almost 80Mb and mods to 40 packages, I thought that a bit bloated and not really what I want. I want to be able to compare available networks.

Update 2 and 3: Still waiting for someone to gimme some help here! Am I asking in the wrong category?

SOLUTION. A helper on MajG support forums had the answer,  LinSSID is a graphical and functional wifi scanner for Ubuntu Linux, which is similar to iwscanner and Inssider. It can be easily installed in Ubuntu and Linux Mint via PPA repository.
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2013...inux-mint/

There is a bug at Linux Lite 1.0.8 that I encountered when tried to login. It was keeping me at the login screen, something like a loop, even if the password was correct.

I found a solution for that: I changed the login manager from LightDM to GDM

1. Go to a text terminal using Alt-Ctrl-F1.
   
2. Stop LightDM with sudo stop lightdm.
   
3. Start GDM with sudo start gdm.
   
4. Run sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm to set the default display manager for GDM.
   
5. Edit /etc/X11/default-display-manager and set it to /usr/sbin/gdm if you can't run the above.
   
6. Restart your computer and login.
   

Contrary to my post of a few minutes ago (forgetful or what? ) I actually have another small issue with the live version; when shutting down it takes about five minutes for the 'progress bar' to get to 100% then nothing much seems to happen i.e. it doesn't shut down.

This is on a HP Pavilion 15 quad core laptop booting from usb with the 64 bit amd iso.

Once again I wonder if it's just something that affects the live version and will go away when I install?

Cheers

Paul

I've been playing with a live cd version of Linux Lite before installing and it seems to work very nicely with my new laptop.

The one issue I do have is that I can't get Super_L (the 'Windows key') to open the whisker menu. I can set it up ok but I get an error dialog:

Failed to launch shortcut "Super_L"
Failed to launch process "xfce4-popup-whiskermenu" (Permission denied)

Might this just be because LL is not installed (or maybe I have the wrong command in there?

TIA and well done on a nice clean distro!

Paul

I've been playing with this tiny file sharing program called Droopy and thought I'd share it with the community.

Once you start the software anything in the designated share folder will be shared with anything that has a web browser - phones, tablets, other computers, even in Virtualbox between the host and guest OS.

Here's a video describing the program. One note while watching the video. The setup used in the video is NOT the same for Linux Lite. Installation directions are below.
http://youtu.be/J2I0okt7mIU

Website for software
http://stackp.online.fr/?p=28


Installation instuctions for Linux Lite 2

Install Droopy, in a terminal type

Hey,

Error warning (when ever i've tried to download and install a software package that is compatible with my version of Linux Lite 2.0)
Only one software management tool is allowed to run at the same time !
Please close the other application first eg: update manager, aptitude, or synaptic first

What is going on - I'm getting frustrated with linux (also cant get my brand new supposedly compatible - printer to work) cant load drivers !

Please help i'm very close to going back to windows - linux is not very user friendly. Speaking as a former windows user. I mean I've read all over the web (pre-switching) that Linux was a great place to go to for former Windows users. REALLY ??