By accident I removed my battery status icon from the taskbar. I don't see how to get it back I was trying to fix my icons with the separator and I took out that icon by mistake. I downloaded another battery status icon called wmbattery but even that I have no idea where it is after I downloaded it or how to add it to my taskbar?  :-[

I love open software.
The last ten years I used PCLOS, (XKLU)buntu, Mint, and I tested others.
I did built little computers in that time the Pet existed, I used Atari ST and Falcon
and I used Windows 95 and ME before Linux. I did program al lot with GFA-basic of
Ostrowski and contiued it some time in emulation on a pc.

Linux Lite is very, very good, fresh, sparky, stable. And so much updating the good
Xubuntu 12.04 needed in the beginning, so little problems Lite gives.
(A problem with FF was quickly overcome and something with desktop-icons will
be right.)

Now Linux Lite will be  my day-to-day OS on a partition for some years. 

Looking to move to Linux for sometime and saw Spatry & MM's youtube video on Linux light. After having several problems on initial load. I re-watched spatry's tutoral and noted the second time that He pointed out a particular person recommended the 32 bit version even if you are 64 bit. I am okay with that.. it is just when I plug in my 16GB USB driver I get failure message. "Failed to initializing gstreamer transcoder." "An error occurred setting gstreamer up" Other problems were setting up Netflix and I set wine up and typed in the three lines of code suggested on youtube.. it appeared but I would get an error message use and more up to date browser or IE  with sliverlight which I thought I downloaded. Final problem was VLC media player Never had problems in windows using it. But playing any typical DVD at about 1:08 into movie the Audio crashes and at 2:15 the video crashes. If it would be smarter to load the 32 bit version I am okay with that. but I can not get USB drive to work. With the error messages I got loading it I thought that maybe it was a loading error so I reloaded it 45 mins ago. Still the same thing with the USB and the VCL player. . so I am back to square one and no Wine installed with any of the other things. No drivers appear to need to be up dated. Even if the 32 bit system is better for I will happily change over just please help me at least get this USB working so I can down load and up load the 32 bit version.
Thanks for the help.

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Hi Guys,

I'm looking for help on how to change my laptops hostname.

For some reason it's got the same hostname as my netbook which also has linux lite; I installed it on both of them at the same time.

Thank's in advance for your help.

I had a Windows OS and  Data on  separate partitions so that I could re-install Windows without loosing my Data .
When I installed Lite I installed it on a new partition so I can Duel Boot and use the  NTFS Data Partition with both after using the NTFS configure tool to enable Lite to read and write to my old files.

After messing about with problems with Bluetooth Audio and a USB WiFi adapter I would like to restore Lite to its default state . The only wayto do this  involves a New install and re-doing the settings etc again

Looking on the Forums there does not appear to be a way to
1-  "Repair" Linux installations .
2- Install Lite and keep my setup
3- Save my Setup options and reapply them after a new install
4 - Make a backup  of the Lite OS to allow a quick install later as I did with Windows

I am wondering if to save some time later I should Create a Home Partition so that I at least can keep that safe during a re-install. I do not keep much Data in my "Home folder"as I created shortcuts to my Folders in my shared Data partition

Does anyone have any advice
(a) Is it possible with Lite .
(b) Is it a good thing to do .
© What is the simplest way to achieve it using GUI as I am getting too old and need prompts .

I am not good at blindly following commands until I understand what they are  supposed to be doing so if something goes wrong I know how to fix it .

Colin

Hi,

I tried all existing forums on ubuntuforums.org but I could not find a solution. My PC is a Toshiba Satellite M105-S3041 and its wireless adapter is Intel Wireless 3945abg adapter. My issue is that the wireless LED never turns ON. It is always off. lshw and ifconfig do not list my adapter in hardware. Please I need help. I had ubuntu 12 installed it a while and that detected the wireless adapter fine but that OS is too slow. Linux lite 2.0 is very fast. Otherwise I am extremely happy with the OS.

Thanks in advance,
Srini

in add or remove software do i check multiple things to add the guest addition that will allow me to use usb 2.0 ? i see a few different things i could check but worried i may not need to pick them all, any help would be great. thanks a lot.

Hi im jon, im running lite 2.0, seems pretty good but my wireless card wont work, on browsing this forum it seems realtech stuff is a problem to find drivers for.

im a complete novice with linux i know the basics like how to surf the net but thats it

Hello LL users . . . Looks like a well thought out and cool distro  . . . am looking forward to learning a few new things!


Greg Arndt

Hi everyone,

I went through the Forums today and did a bit of a tidy up. All bluetooth threads now belong under Network.
There were a lot of posts in On Topic that were better suited to Installing Software and Installing Linux Lite, could I ask people to please take their time in choosing an accurate category for their threads. Thank you.

If you have any suggestions on how the Forums can better serve you, then please feel free to make them here - https://www.868212.xyz/forums/index.php?board=3.0