Re: [lubuntu-users] What happened?? kernel not upgrading during dist-upgrade in kinetic??

[Israel Dahl]

Hey Fritz,

The best way to update grub is using the `update-grub` CLI utility.
But you have to do it from the distro you installed grub with.  If you 
can remember which one you installed grub with, simply run that command 
using `sudo` and it should automatically detect the most recent kernel 
and do it for you.


If you cannot figure out which one you installed it with, reinstall grub 
from the distro you use the most.


On 9/21/22 11:06, Fritz Hudnut wrote:

et al:

Spoke too soon . . . not out of the woods on this one yet. Seems like 
the edits made in the grub "EFI" menu are not maintained on reboot??  
Doesn't seem to be any hints on how to "save" the edits . . . just 
make them and then boot them??? But, then it appears that the edits 
are lost and it's back to the previous version??


After I got 5.19 to boot I used the GUI mainline kernel app to remove 
the old 5.13 kernel, to try to get the system to default to 5.19, but 
on trying today it said, "5.13 not found, hit any key to continue" and 
back into Grub menu we went.


Arrowed down to Lubuntu, pressed "e" and changed the kernel data to 
5.19 and it booted up.


Question is, why doesn't it hold the data??  I've changed both line 
items, the "Lubuntu" and the "advanced options" data and I can boot 
it, one time . . . .  I tried "ctrl o" but that didn't do anything . . 
. .  Do I need to take it to "command line" and then try to "ctrl o" 
it to save it??


F

On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 9:53 AM Fritz Hudnut  
wrote:


Top posting, with impunity!!

So, I got a hint over on Discourse to "check the grub EFI menu" .
. . and once I figured out how to do that, indeed, Lubuntu was
listing itself as "19.10" and set to be booting 5.13 . . . took
some more time to figure out how to edit that data, to the correct
wording for the kernel . . . and that did seem to boot Lubuntu to
5.19!!!

Only "problem" seems to be that when I'm booted in Lubuntu the
Discourse site loads as a white page . . . of whiteness.  I'll
have to reboot into a non-Lu system to get it to load . . . .

So far now it seems like the solution has been invoked . . . .

F


On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 3:45 PM Nio Wiklund
 wrote:

Hi again Fritz,

Is the problematic system your main system or 'only' a
test system? If a
test system you might just reinstall it to get rid of the
problem.

Best regards
Nio





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Re: [lubuntu-users] What happened?? apt freezes during dist-upgrade in kinetic??

[Israel Dahl]

On 9/6/22 09:31, Fritz Hudnut wrote:

> . . . .  On cold boot FF came back.

>
> But, the question of what happened with apt was the more important
> question . . . was it trying to install a too new kernel and then
> tried to back out of it?  It was an odd episode . . . .
>
> F
>
Hey Fritz,

You could search for the available kernels to see which ones are
available, and which ones are installed.

You can also look in the /var/log/dpkg.log something like:

grep "upgrade " /var/log/dpkg.log

That might give you a starting point.

As for the disappearance of firefox, I think snap/flatpak packages
don't
always show up after install, there may be a way to force it to
update
the menus but I don't really like to use either of those unless I
*really* have to, so I don't know off the top of my head/

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Israel:

Thanks for the suggestions . . . I'll check into them when I get back 
to Lu in a few days.  One of my problems is that since I'm rotating 
OSs each day, I don't know where each system is vis the kernel.  
Possibly kinetic is a "5.13" base system, but I did see "5.15" in the 
upgrade list. Yesterday I was in Tumbleweed, which is 5.19 . . . and 
then today I'm in Deb Sid, which I thought would be like 5.20??? but, 
nope, uname -r shows "5.10" . . . .


The good news is that whatever blew up in the middle or end of the 
apt, the kinetic system rebooted into the GUI . . . .  It was just a 
rare instance of a "hang" in the apt dist-upgrade.


F


It looks like Kinetic has a 5.19 now, so you should try to update again.

You should check to see that everything was unpacked in that last 
upgrade as well.  You might need to use dpkg to fix things if not.


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Re: [lubuntu-users] What happened?? apt freezes during dist-upgrade in kinetic??

[Israel Dahl]

On 9/5/22 10:32, Fritz Hudnut wrote:


(snip)


Ralf:

Alrighty, thanks for the reply . . . the "disappearing Firefox" thing 
only was a problem as far as wanting a browser to search for answers 
to the problem of apt "hanging" in the process of updating the system 
. . . .  On cold boot FF came back.


But, the question of what happened with apt was the more important 
question . . . was it trying to install a too new kernel and then 
tried to back out of it?  It was an odd episode . . . .


F


Hey Fritz,

You could search for the available kernels to see which ones are 
available, and which ones are installed.


You can also look in the /var/log/dpkg.log something like:

grep "upgrade " /var/log/dpkg.log

That might give you a starting point.

As for the disappearance of firefox, I think snap/flatpak packages don't 
always show up after install, there may be a way to force it to update 
the menus but I don't really like to use either of those unless I 
*really* have to, so I don't know off the top of my head/


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Re: [lubuntu-users] Pcmanfm (file browser) in Lubuntu (LXQT) Desktop

[Israel Dahl]

On 5/2/22 10:48, Aere Greenway wrote:

All:

I notice that every time I open the file browser (using detailed-list 
view), the horizontal space available for filenames is insufficient, 
so I have to move its border to the right, and the file type is way 
more than I need, so I have to move its right border to the left.


In the preferences, I've set it to save the settings for this folder, 
but every time I open the file browser, the same widths (that don't 
work for me) reappear.


Is there any way to customize the heading item widths in pcmanfm, for 
detailed-list view?



I think it is in the ~/.config/pcmanfm-qt/default/settings.conf

perhaps the 'FolderViewCellMargins=@Size(3 3)' line, though I am not 
entirely sure


I am currently using 1.1.0 version, and some of those earlier bugs are 
no longer there...


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Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu 22.04 LTS is released!

[Israel Dahl]

On 4/21/22 17:48, Dan Simmons wrote:

The Lubuntu team is excited to announce that Lubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy
Jellyfish) has been released! Many thanks to all the contributors. You
can find out more at our official blog post[1]

[1] https://lubuntu.me/jammy-released

On behalf of the Lubuntu release team,


Hi,

I gotta say I tried it out a few days ago and it looks great! 
Congratulations on the style and all the hard work you put into it!


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Re: [lubuntu-users] Can I Use Other Desktops With Lubuntu

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On 7/10/20 10:59 AM, Aere Greenway wrote:
>
> When it boots, it still says it's Lubuntu, but that's not a problem.
>
That can change if you want to spend time in a terminal.  You can
actually make/install custom plymouth screens, as well if you like that
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Re: [lubuntu-users] Can I Use Other Desktops With Lubuntu

[Israel Dahl]

On 7/9/20 1:31 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
> Lubuntu Users:
>
> I currently have Lubuntu 20.04 installed.  In that system, I installed
> the LXDE desktop, which works fine.
>
> Is it also possible to install the Gnome desktop in that system, and
> use that (choosing which desktop at login time)?
>
> I know it will use a fair amount of disk-space, but that isn't a
> problem for me.
>
I've had multiple DE installed before, the only issues you might have
relate to theming and some files in ~/ when you upgrade.  My last
machine had LXQt, JWM and something else I rarely used... maybe Gnome. 
So you are going for LXDE, LXQt, and Gnome?  AFAIK that should work just
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Re: [lubuntu-users] Invalid output from pipe-menu "openbox-menu xfce-application menu

[Israel]

On 3/2/19 7:35 AM, Marc Tremblay wrote:
> Thanks Israel,
>
> You are right. It seems like it might be a problem with the menu.xml
> file or the xfce application menu.
>
> I'm just not sure what I need to modify. Everything seems to be in the
> right place but I need to do more testing as you mentioned.
>
> I just wish I was had more knowledge on what I need to modify.
>
> I'll let you know if I make any progress.
>
>
> On Mar 2, 2019 8:17 AM, Israel  wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> My first thought would be that it is an issue with some configuration
> you have in your $HOME folder (probably more specifically in
> $XDG_CONFIG_HOME... i.e. ~/.config/)
>
> 
>
Hi Marc,

Did you already test and get a working state?

If it is a problem with the menu.xml file you could try to check it with
an xml validator (like xmllint) to see if somehow the xml became
malformed.  But if it is an easy fix, you could write a script to modify
(maybe using xsltproc) whatever file it is that is messed up, and run
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Re: [lubuntu-users] Is this it for Lubuntu QA Disco QA? (Israel)

[Israel]

On 2/5/19 12:08 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
>
>
> On 2/4/19 3:44 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
> > ...
> >
> (snip)
> >
> > Point is that there are over-lapping layers of complexity in the QA
> > that just take "too much" time . . . . 
>
> (snip)
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to point out that this is a very valid point.  I remember
> when I had much more available time to mess with things (like
> lucid and
> natty era). I found that the QA/bug reporting system seemed extremely
> complicated.
>
> apport should be specifically tuned to use the QA system, as well as
> launchpad.
>
> -- 
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>
>
> @Israel:
>
>
> Thanks for the comment . . . indeed it does seem like some
> "streamlining" of the process might help get more participation . . .
> possibly AI could run "over-watch" between LP bug reports and QA
> testing reports rather than fallible human intelligence
>
> F
>
Hi Fritz,

I am not sure how much Canonical/Ubuntu uses AI (if at all), though
probably Ubuntu is used in some deep learning networks :)

The idea of using AI to run QA is a pretty interesting idea though.  I
wonder if any distros use AI?

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Is this it for Lubuntu QA Disco QA?

[Israel]

On 2/4/19 3:44 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
> ...
>
(snip)
>
> Point is that there are over-lapping layers of complexity in the QA
> that just take "too much" time . . . . 

(snip)

Hi,

I would like to point out that this is a very valid point.  I remember
when I had much more available time to mess with things (like lucid and
natty era). I found that the QA/bug reporting system seemed extremely
complicated.

apport should be specifically tuned to use the QA system, as well as
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[lubuntu-users] [SOLVED] Re: Strange, dark, look-and-feel of qjackctl, qsynth, and qmidiroute on Lubuntu 18.04

[Israel]

On 1/10/19 11:02 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
> On 1/10/19 8:52 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
>> On 1/10/19 6:46 PM, Israel wrote:
>>> On 1/9/19 11:47 AM, Eric Bradshaw wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dear Aere,
>>>>
>>>> The C4C Lubuntu 18.04 ReSpin now uses pkexec
>>>> [https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/0.015/pkexec.1.html]
>>>> in place of gksu. By utilizing the method put forth by and the
>>>> policy files created by Allen Guarnes
>>>> [https://www.allenguarnes.com/technology/resolving-the-missing-gksu-command-in-ubuntu-18-04/]
>>>> you should be able to do what you want and have everything look
>>>> just the same as it did. In ebery case I've tried, I've been able
>>>> to replace gksu with pkexec. For example, the command gksu pcmanfm
>>>> can be replaced with pkexec pcmanfm.
>>>>
>>>> Eric
>>>> --
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> God bless you,
>>>> Computers4Christians
>>>> http://computers4christians.org
>>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I agree that pkexec is the current best practice.  You will need to
>>> make a pkexec file for the programs if they do not have one, though.
>>>
>>> I am not sure though if systemd is replacing PolicyKit (they've
>>> replaced many many many things).  So this may be a temporary
>>> solution (should work for a few years at least).
>>>
>>> Aere,
>>>
>>> I did some looking around and Arch (as per usual) has a really
>>> helpful page about this
>>>
>>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uniform_look_for_Qt_and_GTK_applications#QGtkStyle
>>>
>>> tl;dr
>>>
>>> If they are Qt4 apps
>>>
>>> echo "[Qt]
>>>
>>> style=GTK+" >> ~/.config/Trolltech.conf
>>>
>>> If they are Qt5
>>>
>>> sudo apt install qt5-style-plugins
>>>
>>> Then you need to set this variable (so I am adding it to the xinitrc)
>>>
>>> |echo "QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2" >> .~/xinitrc|
>>>
>>> This should get you back on track :D
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Regards
>>>
>> Israel:
>>
>> They are definitely qt5 applications. 
>>
>> I have attached a screenshot of the error dialog to this e-mail as a
>> ".png" file. 
>>
>> I tried what you said to do for qt5, with results as follows:
>>
>> qt5-style-plugins were already installed, and the latest version. 
>>
>> Your echo command didn't work.  In reading the URL info, I think it
>> should have been:
>>
>> |echo "QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2" >> |||~/|.xinitrc
>> |
>>
>> |But that didn't work either.  Signing-in didn't work either. 
>> |
>>
>> |If I could just figure out where lxqt-sudo is defining
>> QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE, and remove it, I think I would be able to fix my
>> systems. 
>> |
>>
>> -- 
>> Sincerely,
>> Aere
>>
> With the helpful information you provided, I was able to finally
> figure out how to fix my systems. 
>
> I edited the ".config/lxsession/lubuntu/desxtop.conf" file of my home
> folder. 
>
> In the "[Environment]" section, I commented-out (put a period in front
> of) the following lines:
>
> qt/force_theme=gtk
>
> qt/platform=lxqt
>
>
> I then logged-out, and signed-in again.  I can now run
> Menu...Preferences...Qt5 Settings
>
> But I don't have to - the problem (the strange dark color scheme, and
> excessively large window sizes) has gone away. 
>
> Thank you for all your help, and also thanks for the suggestions of
> others on this list. 
>
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> Aere

Hi Aere,

Thanks for catching my typo there :P

I am so glad you got it figured out!!  Woo-Hoo!! I add [SOLVED] in the
thread header in case anyone searches for this issue :D

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Strange, dark, look-and-feel of qjackctl, qsynth, and qmidiroute on Lubuntu 18.04

[Israel]

On 1/9/19 11:47 AM, Eric Bradshaw wrote:
>
> ...
>
>
> Dear Aere,
>
> The C4C Lubuntu 18.04 ReSpin now uses pkexec
> [https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/0.015/pkexec.1.html]
> in place of gksu. By utilizing the method put forth by and the policy
> files created by Allen Guarnes
> [https://www.allenguarnes.com/technology/resolving-the-missing-gksu-command-in-ubuntu-18-04/]
> you should be able to do what you want and have everything look just
> the same as it did. In ebery case I've tried, I've been able to
> replace gksu with pkexec. For example, the command gksu pcmanfm can be
> replaced with pkexec pcmanfm.
>
> Eric
> --
> Thank you,
> God bless you,
> Computers4Christians
> http://computers4christians.org
>
Hi,

I agree that pkexec is the current best practice.  You will need to make
a pkexec file for the programs if they do not have one, though.

I am not sure though if systemd is replacing PolicyKit (they've replaced
many many many things).  So this may be a temporary solution (should
work for a few years at least).

Aere,

I did some looking around and Arch (as per usual) has a really helpful
page about this

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uniform_look_for_Qt_and_GTK_applications#QGtkStyle

tl;dr

If they are Qt4 apps

echo "[Qt]

style=GTK+" >> ~/.config/Trolltech.conf

If they are Qt5

sudo apt install qt5-style-plugins

Then you need to set this variable (so I am adding it to the xinitrc)

|echo "QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2" >> .~/xinitrc|

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Strange, dark, look-and-feel of qjackctl, qsynth, and qmidiroute on Lubuntu 18.04

[Israel]

On 1/8/19 5:04 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
> On 1/8/19 2:07 PM, Israel wrote:
>> On 1/7/19 10:06 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
>>> Lubuntu Users Group:
>>>
>>> (Sorry - I initially sent this from the wrong e-mail address)
>>>
>>>
>>> To mount my NFS drive on my local client systems, I needed something
>>> to get ask the user for root privilege.
>>>
>>> On Lubuntu 16.04, I used gksu, but on Lubuntu 18.04, that package
>>> appears to be unavailable.
>>>
>>> So in its place, I installed lxqt-sudo, and used that.
>>>
>>> However, after installing that, a number of applications no longer
>>> have their normal Gnome look-and-feel, but instead, have a dark look,
>>> and take up a huge (much more than necessary) amount of screen
>>> real-estate.
>>>
>>> The applications I'm having this problem with, are:
>>>
>>> qjackctl
>>>
>>> qsynth
>>>
>>> qmidiroute
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how I can change them back to their former Gnome
>>> look-and-feel (or even explain what has happened)?
>>>
>>> The strange thing is, on some of my 18.04 systems, this didn't happen
>>> - those applications still have their usual Gnome look-and-feel.
>>>
>>> I have been unable to determine why it is okay on some of my systems,
>>> and not on other systems.
>>>
>>> - Aere
>>>
>> Aere,
>>
>> Those are Qt apps, are you using LXDE or LXQt?
>>
>> If you are using LXDE then, installing lxqt-sudo probably installed some
>> more things, and changed a Qt setting.
>>
>> You can make sure you have the Qt GTK+ engine
>>
>> sudo apt install qt5-gtk-platformtheme
>>
>> This hopefully will fix it.  If not, look for a Qt settings (or KDE
>> settings) in your /usr/share/applications/
>>
>> Then launch this and change it to the qt gtk+ engine
>>
> Israel:
>
> Thank you for your expertise, and your ideas.
>
> I am using LXDE.
>
> I performed the apt install qt5-gtk-platformtheme statement.  It
> indicated the latest version of it was already installed, and the
> newest version.
>
> I launched qjackctl, and it still has the strange, dark, look-and-feel.
>
> I couldn't find anything in /usr/share/applications/ that resembled QT
> settings, or KDE settings.  In Synaptic Package Manager, I searched
> for "kde-settings", "kdesettings", "qt-settings", and "qtsettings",
> but none of those searches found anything.
>
> Is there something I could install that would allow me to change the
> settings?
>
Hi Aere,

I am not 100% sure what needs to be installed, but I found an answer. 
The main thing you need to do is change the Qt theme to use the Qt GTK+
engine.  I am sure there is a way to change the theme from the terminal
(like with GTK), but I don't use Qt as much as FLTK/GTK toolkits.

I found this question on AskUbuntu:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/716714/change-qt5-theme

tl;dr

Use either of these:

lxqt-config

qt5ct

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Strange, dark, look-and-feel of qjackctl, qsynth, and qmidiroute on Lubuntu 18.04

[Israel]

On 1/7/19 10:06 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
> Lubuntu Users Group:
>
> (Sorry - I initially sent this from the wrong e-mail address)
>
>
> To mount my NFS drive on my local client systems, I needed something
> to get ask the user for root privilege.
>
> On Lubuntu 16.04, I used gksu, but on Lubuntu 18.04, that package
> appears to be unavailable.
>
> So in its place, I installed lxqt-sudo, and used that.
>
> However, after installing that, a number of applications no longer
> have their normal Gnome look-and-feel, but instead, have a dark look,
> and take up a huge (much more than necessary) amount of screen
> real-estate.
>
> The applications I'm having this problem with, are:
>
> qjackctl
>
> qsynth
>
> qmidiroute
>
> Does anyone know how I can change them back to their former Gnome
> look-and-feel (or even explain what has happened)?
>
> The strange thing is, on some of my 18.04 systems, this didn't happen
> - those applications still have their usual Gnome look-and-feel.
>
> I have been unable to determine why it is okay on some of my systems,
> and not on other systems.
>
> - Aere
>
Aere,

Those are Qt apps, are you using LXDE or LXQt?

If you are using LXDE then, installing lxqt-sudo probably installed some
more things, and changed a Qt setting.

You can make sure you have the Qt GTK+ engine

sudo apt install qt5-gtk-platformtheme

This hopefully will fix it.  If not, look for a Qt settings (or KDE
settings) in your /usr/share/applications/

Then launch this and change it to the qt gtk+ engine

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu 18.10, no touchpad settings

[Israel]

On 10/28/18 10:11 AM, Aere Greenway wrote:
> On 10/28/18 8:48 AM, Israel wrote:
>> 
>
> Israel:
>
>
> Thank you for providing a work-around for the problem. 
>
>
> Fortunately for me, the systems with the problem are only test-systems. 
>
>
> Hopefully, this problem will be solved before I am to the point of
> considering migrating my production systems to Lubuntu 19.04. 
>
>
> Though some people like command-line-interfaces, I hope this
> work-around isn't the permanent solution to the problem. 
>
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> Aere

Hi Aere, I did some searching, and it is extremely hard to find out
where/what the synaptics API actually is anyhow after long searching
I found

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-synaptics/tree/src/synaptics.c

Which is somewhat an example of the C interface... I know you mostly do
Java, but if you are motivated C++/QML is actually a nice way to program
and I am sure all LXQt denizens would welcome a fully functioning true
synaptics config tool... otherwise it would be pretty easy to write a
program that gets values and simply send them via the system() command.

I am also sending this to the list in case anyone around is really
interested in making something, and to have it in the mail archives if
anyone ever is looking for it again :D

The caveat is that this is Xorg specific... no idea how Wayland
will/does handle this... though my experience with Wayland so far has
been a bit underwhelming.  Though... it may replace X eventually kinda
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Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu 18.10, no touchpad settings

[Israel]

On 10/27/18 11:23 AM, Aere Greenway wrote:
> On 10/27/18 10:19 AM, Bill Hopkins wrote:
>> I have tried Lubuntu 18.10, running as a Live Distro from a usb thumb
>> drive.
>> In both cases there is no "tap to click" function, to emulate a left
>> mouse button click, on the touchpad.
>> I also was unable to find any program in the Menu, to adjust the
>> settings of a touchpad.
>> I also tried to download a touchpad program from the software
>> repository, but the programs I downloaded and installed, did not show
>> up in the Menu.
>>
>> Does anyone have solution to this issue.
>>
>> There is no touchpad issue with the Lubuntu 18.04, that I am using.
>>
> In my testing, I noticed the same thing. 
>
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> Aere
>
You can change touchpad settings manually from the terminal.

I personally have a FLTK based application that I use to fine-tune
synaptic touchpad settings.


open a terminal and type


synclient


This will list all your current settings if your touchpad is supported
by the synaptic drivers.


Then simply run synclient again when you find the setting you want with
the name and value


probably you want something like:


synclient TapButton1=1


But, you can try each setting that you want to explore and it will
instantly change your settings.  You probably need to save these to a
script to automatically be run each time you start your session.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu-users Digest, Vol 82, Issue 15

[Israel]

On 10/22/18 4:25 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
>
>
>
> >> Nope, it was always Sylpheed.
> > The potential problem, is that if it won't run on Lubuntu
>
> Not a problem at all. Any package in the repositories should work just
> fine. The only problem with Thunderbird (and any other GTK app) is
> that
> it's likely to bring a bunch of libraries along with it.
>
> > Do snap package installations work on Lubuntu?
>
> The important thing to remember here is the sentiment behind the
> statement above: Lubuntu *IS* Ubuntu. Ubuntu, ultimately, is the
> software in the repositories. The thing that makes the canonical (here
> the lowercase is intentional) Ubuntu OS what it is is a particular
> selection of packages. This is also true with Lubuntu and every other
> flavor of Ubuntu. But they all have the repositories in common.
>
>
> @AG:
>
> Just to add the comment . . . I had a fresh install of Lu Next
> **highly experimental OS** 18.04 installed, and then went against the
> suggested method of doing a fresh upgrade for Lu 18.10, and
> **experimentally** upgraded the unsupported 18.04 via console
> update/upgrade to what is now an **unrecommended** Lu 18.10 system . .
> . and somewhere in there Thunderbird Mail has appeared and is
> functioning perfectly well . . . .  As Walter mentions that may have
> added "bloat" into the libraries of my install . . . nothing wrong
> with Sylpheed, but, I just like TB . . . .
>
> F
>
FWIW

I have LXQt in 18.04 with a bunch of GTK apps, as well as a few other
DE/WM setups, and GTK apps (such as thunderbird) work just fine.  Qt
apps are, of course preferred.  I also have a KDE Neon machine which
uses Thunderbird and it works perfectly there.  And on the other side
VLC is a Qt app and is used in a lot of GTK DE and works well.  So you
can easily install and run ANY familiar app in the repos, though you
will also install the libraries to run the graphical toolkit.

I make/use a lot of FLTK based apps in the same environment with Qt and
GTK apps and all work well together.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) Released!

[Israel]

On 10/21/18 8:13 AM, Ludwig Causilla Leyva wrote:
>
> Estoy intentando descargar la nueva versión de Lubuntu 18.10 con LXQt
> para arquitectura 32 bit y por restricciones dentro de mi red no me
> deja descargar mas de 10 MB en un solo archivo, ¿puede alguien hacerme
> el favor de poner el iso de 32 bit de Lubuntu 18.10 en MEGA o
> cualquier otro lugar que permita descargas por stream? Gracias de antemano
>
> I´m trying to download the new Lubuntu 18.10 version with LXQt for the
> 32 bit architecture but... Because the restricctions of my Work´s
> network (where i´m trying to download) Only less than 10 MB files are
> allowed to downloaded, ¿Can someone put the 32 bit arch ISO on any
> plataform that allow stream download (Perhaps MEGA o something
> similar)? I´ll give you my gratitud and grettings from Cuba...
>
> ---
>
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> Ing. en Ciencias Informáticas.
> Administrador de Red en JCCE Abreus 2
> teléfono: 540 348 
>
>
Hi,

Have you tried using the torrent option
?
 
Or perhaps using zsync 
would work.  With zsync you could download 10MB and then restart the
download once it fails.

Something like:

#!/bin/bash
iter=1
while ! zsync
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/cosmic/release/lubuntu-18.10-desktop-i386.iso.zsync
do
iter=$(( iter + 1 ))
echo "Try #$iter"
[[ -f lubuntu-18.10-desktop-i386.iso ]] && ls -lah
lubuntu-18.10-desktop-i386.iso
done


This will automatically try to zsync repeatedly, until it fully finishes.

You will have to CTRL+C to stop it if you need to (or close the terminal
window)

However this will not work in windows, unless, perhaps you use WSL
though I have never used WSL and cannot actually confirm it.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Qt Games

[Israel]

On 10/15/2018 01:49 PM, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> In a previous conversation discussing LxQt, I complained that there
> was only one entry in the Games menu for Lubuntu.
>
> In my wanderings I found https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Based_Games which in
> turn took me to https://www.linux-games.org/
>
> It isn't a perfect catalogue. Have a play with them, if you feel
> inclined. Let people know if you find something that should be on the
> install iso or maybe referred to in a meta-package to conveniently
> install a bunch of games.
>
> BW,
>
>
> Ian
>
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> https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software
>
>
>
Hi

I like the 2048 qt game in the repo.  You might check it out (sudo apt
install 2048-qt)

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Bionic B Lu - NEXT 18.04 --how to run OS upgrade via console?

[Israel]

On 10/10/2018 02:36 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
> AG:
>
> Thanks for the thought; I did see that -d modifier in a search on
> google . . . so far haven't added that one into the command . . .
> haven't put a whole lot of time into it yet . . . but, spending more
> time in Lu Next lately so getting into the latest edition might seem
> to move it up a tad bit.  Is the -d the solution?
>
> F
>
Hey Fritz, yes it is the solution.  You can also use the GUI "Software &
Updates".  I am not sure if the Qt version is the same as the GTK
version, but in the GTK version go to the "Updates" tab and at the very
bottom you can modify:

"Notify me of a new Ubuntu version:" to say "For any new version"

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Old Lubuntu iso files (10.10 and 11.04)

[Israel]

On 03/31/2018 01:50 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> Den 2018-03-31 kl. 20:47, skrev Israel:
>> On 03/31/2018 01:32 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> Have you got one or both of the iso files of Lubuntu 10.10 and 11.04?
>>>
>>> In that case, please help me get them uploaded somewhere (if only
>>> temporary) along with the md5sums (that you can create from your iso
>>> files, if you have no stored values).
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Nio
>>>
>> Hi Nio,
>>
>> I think I have at least 11.04 on a CD somewhere I'll look around and see
>> if I can dd you an image.
>>
>
> Thanks Israel :-)
>
> Best regards
> Nio

Hi Nio,

It looks like the only old ones I have are the old Gnome2 Ubuntus Feisty
Fawn, Hardy Heron and Lucid..

If you want any of those let me know... I must have gotten rid of the
11.04 ISOs recently because I did purge some of my CD collection... I
just can't get rid of that Hardy Heron cd though... that background was
fantastic :D  And Lucid was a turning point where the whole *buntu
experience started to become really easy to use for the average user.  I
also have a bunch of Lubuntu Precise (12.04) isos  PPC, 32bit 64bit and
12.040.1 64 bit Lubuntu

So if you want any of those let me know.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Old Lubuntu iso files (10.10 and 11.04)

[Israel]

On 03/31/2018 01:32 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Have you got one or both of the iso files of Lubuntu 10.10 and 11.04?
>
> In that case, please help me get them uploaded somewhere (if only
> temporary) along with the md5sums (that you can create from your iso
> files, if you have no stored values).
>
> Best regards
> Nio
>
Hi Nio,

I think I have at least 11.04 on a CD somewhere I'll look around and see
if I can dd you an image.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] PCManFM default sort order

[Israel]

Hi Jerry
(inline below)
On 03/21/2018 12:11 PM, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:
> Is there a way to force PCManFM to always use "Sort Files > Ascending
> > By Name" ?
>
> I can set the sort order to Ascending > By Name, but it doesn't stay
> that way. Every once in a while I'll click on some folder and it
> changes back to Descending > By Modification Time. Very annoying.
>
> I found on the web that this has been a long standing complaint about
> PCManFM.
>
> I found this workaround:
>
> 
> You can use /View > Sort Files/ to change the order in which PCManFM
> lists the files, but PCManFM won't remember that the next time you
> start it. To make it remember, go to /Edit > Preferences/ and close.
> That will write your current sort_type and sort_by values into
> |~/.config/pcmanfm/LXDE/pcmanfm.conf|.
> 
>
Not 100% sure if this will solve your issue... but
You might simply copy your config file to the default.
|~/.config/pcmanfm/default/||pcmanfm.conf|
> Found that here: http://tinyurl.com/phq7ska on the Arch Linux Wiki
> site. But that workaround doesn't always work.
>
> Is there a solution to this, or is this annoying problem by design?
>
> I'm using Lubuntu 17.10.1 64bit fully updated.
>
>
>
>
> God bless,
> /Jerry Van Brimmer/
>
> Sent using Zoho Mail 
>
>
>
>

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Bionic 18.04 . . . file "locked" after zsync-ing???

[Israel]

On 02/17/2018 10:06 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
> Lu users:
>
> Yesterday, after many months brooding over the loss of PPC I decided
> to try to get back into the Lubuntu game and I tried to download the
> "daily" from the "cdimage" site for Lubuntu 18.04 . . . and that
> process alone brought several issues for the "live-amd64" iso version.
>
> First issue was that the iso showed "986 MB" . . . which on my slow
> dsl line should ideally have taken about an hour to download . . .
> after several hours of "downloading" had passed I noticed that FF had
> a little dot over its download manager--"download failed" it said.  I
> "retried" several times . . . all attempts on reloading what was then
> "586 MB" failed.  I again started a fresh download . . . and several
> hours later it "finished" at the proscribed "986MB" . . . .  Awhile
> later I checked the shasum 256 number and they didn't match, and I
> tried the md5 number and that didn't match either.
>
> Took a break and went for a bike ride, came up with the idea of trying
> to reload the file using "zsync" which I noticed was an option.  I had
> to install zsync in my latest squeeze Gecko MATE rolling edition, and
> I downloaded the zsync file and ran "sudo zsync
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/bionic-desktop-amd64.iso.zsync";
> . . . and zsync did its thing, read the seed file and . . . another
> several hours later we had what is now a "1.5 GB" file . . . popped
> the DVD into the drive and ran Brasero . . . disk ejected "failed to
> read file" . . . tried another disk, same result. 
>
> Looking at the new zsync-d file there is now a "lock" icon, and
> looking in properties via right click it shows "root" ownership with
> "read-only" and somewhere at the bottom of the window it said, "You
> don't have proper permissions so you can't do anything with this file
> . . . " ???  Something like that, so somehow the "old" file which had
> no "lock" icon on it, went to something that has been "locked" by
> zsync?? 
>
> Any way to get that file unlocked, so that I can get the roughly 6
> hours of computer time spent "downloading" the file back from the
> trash bin of time and get to the "testing" part of the ritual?
>
> TIA
>
> F
>
>
>
Hi Fritz,

You ran 'sudo' before the zsync command.

You now need to run sudo chown $USER:$USER //

Where // is the actual filename (and path if you are not in
the directory which has the file).

It is locked because root owns it (since you ran sudo).

It should be fine, but don't run zsync as super user in the future :D

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Re: [lubuntu-users] trying to set i3 window manager only but a different one keeps showing up

[Israel]

On 02/13/2018 07:08 AM, Felipe M. Vieira wrote:
>> Hi Felipe,
>>
>> You should be able to configure this using something like 'Session Settings'
>>
>> I only have LXQt running on my machine so I do not remember the name of
>> the program.  The LXQt version is much different than the Lubuntu GTK
>> one is.
>>
>> The GTK one is a bit more scattered looking, and a bit more confusing
>> (well at least the last time I used it).  So, you will have to look for
>> the startup applications, or an option to set the desktop handler. 
>> PCManFM can be run without handling the desktop, and unlike some of the
>> other FM (like Nautilus aka Files) PCManFM does not impose this feature
>> by default.  So, somewhere in your startup applications settings PCManFM
>> is being set to run with its --desktop option.
>>
>> I am sorry that I cannot be more detailed, but I have not used the GTK
>> version of Lubuntu in a couple years, I am really interested in where
>> LXQt can go, mostly because:
>>
>> 
>>
>> GTK has become increasingly worse with each new release.  The devs
>> consistently drop really useful things and deprecate needed features. 
>> But it isn't that I don't like Lubuntu in GTK form, just the GTK+ APIs.
>>
>> Qt has tended to add features and make itself more modular in the past
>> few years, rather than making itself more monolithic and have less
>> features like GTK has been doing.
>>
>> 
>>
>> --
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>>
> Hey Israel,
>
> I got it:
>
> "lxsession-default-apps" > "core applications" > "Desktop manager" from
> "filemanager" to blank.
>
> Now none of those annoying windows show up again! Thanks, your
> indications were very precise :)
>
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>
>
Hi Felipe!

Glad to hear you got it figured out, I will save your e-mail so I can
find the exact name for next time!

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Re: [lubuntu-users] trying to set i3 window manager only but a different one keeps showing up

[Israel]

On 02/05/2018 06:56 PM, Felipe M. Vieira wrote:
>> ...
>>
> Hey, thanks for the reply. Just to clarify, I'm using Lubuntu! Loving
> it.
>
> My i3 is configured by "lxsession-default-apps" > "core applications" >
> "Windows manager" blank field is set to "i3".
>
> So it looks like an instance of pcmanfm is opened everytime I start a
> session. How can I disable it?
>
> Best,
>
> --
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> Mobile +55 11 971 066 250
>
>
Hi Felipe,

You should be able to configure this using something like 'Session Settings'

I only have LXQt running on my machine so I do not remember the name of
the program.  The LXQt version is much different than the Lubuntu GTK
one is.

The GTK one is a bit more scattered looking, and a bit more confusing
(well at least the last time I used it).  So, you will have to look for
the startup applications, or an option to set the desktop handler. 
PCManFM can be run without handling the desktop, and unlike some of the
other FM (like Nautilus aka Files) PCManFM does not impose this feature
by default.  So, somewhere in your startup applications settings PCManFM
is being set to run with its --desktop option.

I am sorry that I cannot be more detailed, but I have not used the GTK
version of Lubuntu in a couple years, I am really interested in where
LXQt can go, mostly because:



GTK has become increasingly worse with each new release.  The devs
consistently drop really useful things and deprecate needed features. 
But it isn't that I don't like Lubuntu in GTK form, just the GTK+ APIs.

Qt has tended to add features and make itself more modular in the past
few years, rather than making itself more monolithic and have less
features like GTK has been doing.



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Re: [lubuntu-users] trying to set i3 window manager only but a different one keeps showing up

[Israel]

On 02/03/2018 01:33 PM, Felipe M. Vieira wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm using i3 window manager but another one keeps interfering. At least
> one of my workspaces gets either that solid blue background or that
> geometric one full of blue triangles and the "Trash" icon.
>
> I would like to have none of those, just pure i3.
>
> Can you help me with that?
>
> --
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>
>
Hi Felipe,

Not sure if we can help you, since this is for Lubuntu specifically. 
How do you start i3?  Do you use lxsession?  Do you configure it using
something in your home folder (.xsession, .xinitrc, .bashrc, etc...)

>From my experience with window managers, I would say:

Do not use lxsession, use

/etc/X11/Xsession i3

instead, so you do not run the Lubuntu specific startup things.

Using .xinitrc is a well accepted method, but will interfere with other
DE/WM.  For example you cannot reasonably run Lubuntu, LXQt, i3, and JWM
all by using a file in your home folder and get the best results.  It
would be better to write a shell script to set the variable you want,
and start things that you can call up.

I have never used i3.  I use JWM regularly, so I cannot give you i3
specific advice.  JWM is my favorite window manager, by far :D

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Re: [lubuntu-users] how to run the pkg updater from cmd line (Eric Bradshaw)

[Israel]

On 02/01/2018 12:35 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
>
>
>
> Lubuntu-17.10
> lxde desktop
>
> How does one run the gui updater that pops up on the desktop showing
> available updates, from the command line.
>
> If I ssh into the box how can I run that tool.  What is it called?
>
> I would normally run `aptitude full-upgrade' but having done that I
> see the updater does not agree and that there are still updates
> available
>
>
>
> Harry Putnam,
>
> As far as I know, the tool is named APT for Advanced Packaging Tool.
> When first setting up a computer (new install), the actual commands I
> run are:
>
> sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y
>
> But, in order to see everything available before agreeing, you can
> run:
>
> sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
>
> Or, run those commands one at a time:
>
> sudo apt update
> sudo apt upgrade
>
> And to upgrade the OS itself (like, say, after a point release) I do:
>
> sudo apt dist-upgrade
>
> Or, add that to the first command:
>
> sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y
>
> Or, to see everything available, again take away the answers:
>
> sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt dist-upgrade
>
> As to SSH - I'd defer to the wisdom of other folks on this list.
> *But, from what I understand from a quick DuckDuckGo search,
> the single command that takes care of everything seems to be:
>
> ###sudo do-release-upgrade###
>
>
> Eric Bradshaw
> --
>
>
> I concur with everything mr B has posted, except I believe that the
> final line is for when you want to move from one LTS to the next . . .
> not a "regular" update/upgrade within a version or release . . . . 
>
> F
>
>
Yes Fritz, you are correct,

If you are on an LTS it will likely ignore it, unless your settings are
set to upgrade to any new release.  It will wait to upgrade you to 18.04

And for completeness I will offer the full-upgrade command:

sudo apt full-upgrade


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Re: [lubuntu-users] How to display all boot msgs during boot

[Israel]

On 01/29/2018 12:34 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Israel  writes:
>
>> On 01/28/2018 06:40 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>> Ralf Mardorf 
>>> writes:
>>> 
>>>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> This list is public, and archived for other users to browse for answers
>> to their questions.  While your discussion is interesting, it might be
>> better to correspond off-list to keep this thread clean for ease of
>> other users trying to find answers about
>>
>> " How to display all boot msgs during boot"
> Sorry... a hefty stroke of silliness overtook me.
>
> This is what works for making the boot messages display during boot:
> (Just in case anyone actually skips thru all the baloney and gets to
> here)
>
> A link with this info was already pointed to earlier:
>
> using your EDITOR_OF_CHOICE /etc/default/grub
>
> Find the line that says:
>
>   GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quite splash"
>
> And edit it to say:
>
>   GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
>
> Then run the command `update-grub' (which has a bit of word to do)
>
> Reboot the system and watch the boot msgs fly by.
>
>
>
No problem,

just wanted to keep the thread clean for others in the future :)

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Re: [lubuntu-users] How to display all boot msgs during boot

[Israel]

On 01/28/2018 06:40 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Ralf Mardorf 
> writes:
> 
>
Hey guys,

This list is public, and archived for other users to browse for answers
to their questions.  While your discussion is interesting, it might be
better to correspond off-list to keep this thread clean for ease of
other users trying to find answers about

" How to display all boot msgs during boot"

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Re: [lubuntu-users] No desktop appears on reboot of lubuntu 17.10

[Israel]

On 01/25/2018 07:51 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Israel  writes:
>
>
> [...]
>
>>> How would I know if I accidentally did switch to openbox? is there
>>> some way to identify the type of session that opens when I log in.
>>>
>>> Should I perhaps rename ~/.config  then logout and see what happens
>>> when I log back in? Or would that just be creating more trouble?
>>>
>>>
>> Hi Harry,
>> In the top right corner near the other indicators, there is a place to
>> click to choose other sessions.  I am not using the default icon theme
>> so I cannot tell you exactly what it looks like, but IIRC it may be a
>> gear icon, though I do not remember.
> Ah yes, now I do see it, its a tiny replica of the LXDE icon. The same
> as the one displayed on the lower panel main icon (like a start button
> with the main menu)
>
> When I look to see the *.png that the icon is pointing too it is
> lubuntu-logo.png (found at /usr/share/lubuntu/images/) But the one in
> upper right is very small.
>
> It is set to lubuntu so I guess that isn't the problem.
>
> However I do have good news ... I moved the .config directory to
> CONFIG-moved-$DATE and rebooted.  I now have the bottom panel with the
> normal icons and etc... no more black screen.  I guess I can poke
> around in CONFIG-moved-$DATE directory if I want to try to figure out
> what went wrong.
>
> Thanks for all the help and coaching.
>
>
Hi,

No problem,

The problem is most likely your openbox config for Lubuntu, which I do
not remember the name of it (I don't use the GTK version of Lubuntu,
only the Qt)

So there might be a lubuntu folder in .config with an xml file for
openbox (with the .rc ending) OR it could be a file in the openbox
directory there.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] No desktop appears on reboot of lubuntu 17.10

[Israel]

On 01/25/2018 06:40 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Israel  writes:
>> Hi,
>> I got the files from the list, so they are present
> I see, yes.  Looks like I made a right mess of it.
> So apologizing to the moderators for loading piles of unnecessary
> data... some how I manage to post in duplicate.  
>
>> I looked through things and am not entirely sure what is causing it. 
>> There is a lot there, so there may be something obvious I missed.
>> The only clue I see right off is that dbus is having some issues with
>> something (light locker for one), but I do not see why that would
>> corrupt your session.
>> So, my basic thought is that your config is wrong, OR you are choosing
>> some sort of session which is missing things.  Are you logging into the
>> 'Openbox' only session?  Or are you logging into the Lubuntu Desktop
>> (not the LXQt desktop either)?
> I have not seen anything suggesting I could `choose' anything .. I
> just login at the greeter prompt... The same since installation.
> There are no choices to make.
>
>> If you accidentally switched to the openbox session it could describe
>> why you have these issues pretty well, since it is likely unconfigured
>> for a standalone usage.
> It sounds like you must see something on the login screen offering
> choices of what kind of session you want.  I see nothing of that sort.
>
> How would I know if I accidentally did switch to openbox? is there
> some way to identify the type of session that opens when I log in.
>
> Should I perhaps rename ~/.config  then logout and see what happens
> when I log back in? Or would that just be creating more trouble?
>
>
Hi Harry,

In the top right corner near the other indicators, there is a place to
click to choose other sessions.  I am not using the default icon theme
so I cannot tell you exactly what it looks like, but IIRC it may be a
gear icon, though I do not remember.

Clicking on this should produce a drop down list which allows you to
select another session, make sure you choose Lubuntu (possibly Lubuntu
Desktop if that is an option... sorry I don't tend to remember the login
screen well enough).

Once you have chosen it, click the drop down again, to verify it is the
highlighted option, before trying to log in.

If this succeeded, then HURRAY!

Else, let us know what happened...

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Re: [lubuntu-users] No desktop appears on reboot of lubuntu 17.10

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On 01/25/2018 12:26 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> [Please note that I tried to send this message with the requested
> files attached but a moderator of this newsgroup sent back a message
> saying moderaters had to review the message ... but that it is
> probably considered too big (too much data) and will probably not be
> posted
>
> Considering that information I am reposting the message but have
> made the files available at:
>
>   zeus.jtan.com/~reader/vutxt/disp.cgi
>
> Three files will be displayed on one web page.
>
> The filenames will indicate the content:
>
>   lubuntu-users-xsession-errors.txt
>   lubuntu-users-xsession-errors.old.txt
>   All-installed-with-version.txt
>
> The data is separated by Filename, but some of it is pretty long.]

Hi,
I got the files from the list, so they are present
I looked through things and am not entirely sure what is causing it. 
There is a lot there, so there may be something obvious I missed.
The only clue I see right off is that dbus is having some issues with
something (light locker for one), but I do not see why that would
corrupt your session.

So, my basic thought is that your config is wrong, OR you are choosing
some sort of session which is missing things.  Are you logging into the
'Openbox' only session?  Or are you logging into the Lubuntu Desktop
(not the LXQt desktop either)?
If you accidentally switched to the openbox session it could describe
why you have these issues pretty well, since it is likely unconfigured
for a standalone usage.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] About sysv-rc-conf services tool

[Israel]

On 01/25/2018 11:47 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Setup:
> A newish install of lubuntu, as guest in vbox vm, hosted on a
> solaris-11 host running openindiana (illumos-based)
>
> lubuntu-17.10
> Virtualbox - 5.2.6
>
> With the default (as installed) /etc/apt/sources.list in place, using
> `aptitude' (similar to apt-get), I'm unable to find the application
> `sysv-rc-conf' on any of the servers.
>
> aptitude search sysv-rc-conf shows no hits.
>
> Even a wider search using just `sysv-' returns only a few python pkgs
> that have that string in them.
>
> `sysv-rc-conf is a very handy services and runlevel manager that I am
> accustomed to using.
>
> Are there other repos or pkg servers I can add to my sources.list that
> might have that particular tool?
>
> It used to be available on ubuntu pkg servers.
>
> It is available on sourceforge.net... but I'm a little hesitant to try
> to install it since it has apparently been removed from ubuntu pkg
> servers for some reason. 
>
>
Hi,

systemd is the reason, most likely.  You will have to use another distro
such as Devuan OR learn the new systemd way.  I am not an advocate for
systemd so I would not be a resource for it.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] No desktop appears on reboot of lubuntu 17.10

[Israel]

On 01/24/2018 10:05 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Setup:
> lubuntu 17.10 as vbox vm guest on Solaris-11 (openindiana) host.
> Host harware is HP xw8600 workstation.
> Vbox version is 5.2.6
>
> This is a pretty recent install (a few days old) but has been working
> normally thru several reboots over a few days.
>
> I did do an update thru the software updater tool during the last
> uptime before the recent reboot where this problem showed up.. Not sure
> what was installed during the update perhaps it is recorded somewhere?
> But more than 1 item was installed.
>
> What I see on a bootup is the appearance of the greeter with login
> box.  I then login, after the login is accepted, in a few moments I
> see the white cursor arrow appear on a black screen... .. After
> waiting a bit I began to realize that the regular desktop was not
> going to put in an appearance.
>
> Since then, I've given reboots a nice long wait to make sure my
> desktop was, in fact, mia.
>
> So a black screen but no panel or icons, and its not possible to get
> any response with mouse
>
> Really had no clue how to debug but guessed it would be one of the
> components of the lxde setup.
>
> `aptitude search lxde' showed the meta pkg `lxde' and all the
> components as not being installed (because the lubuntu-desktop was
> installed at install) I thought maybe if I installed all lxde
> components ... whatever was broken might get fixed  It did not
> ... still getting the black screen after the greeter login is
> accepted.
>
> I'm also running `bionic' (beta lubuntu?) in a vbox vm as well, and so
> far this has not happened there.  Though it does make me a bit `gun
> shy' about allowing the update software tool to make any updates.
>
>
Hi Harry,

It would benefit us to learn the contents of your xerrors, as I suspect
this would give an indication as to what went wrong.

You can also drop to a TTY (not sure how to do this in VBox since I use
virt-manager) and then log in there.  Once logged in you can copy your:

~/.xsession-errors

and

~/.xsession-errors.old

you can also check dmesg and look at systemd logs via journalctl

You can use journalctl for kernel logs also alternatively by using the
--dmesg option

I think by looking at the xsession errors it might give a clue what
happened.


Did you install any software on top of the vanilla Lubuntu install?

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Re: [lubuntu-users] New kernel seems to kill lubuntu in Vbox vm

[Israel]

On 01/24/2018 12:25 AM, Ben Coleman wrote:
>
> On 1/23/2018 8:17 AM, Israel wrote:
>> The issue, may simply be Virtual Box, but be aware it might be related
>> to that specific kernel issue.  Try booting from an older kernel to see
>> if your problem is fixed.  You may also simply need to update VBox
> I'll note that I recently had a similar problem with Lubuntu under
> VirtualBox on Windows.  After the kernel update, the client machine
> would crash on reboot.  I had to go to a test version of VB 5.2.6 to fix
> it.  I note that Oracle has since fully released 5.2.6.
>
> Ben
>
>
Thanks for that Input.  I know I have had issues with VirtualBox in the
past as well, so I switched to using Virtual Machine Manager / KVM. 
This is now my preferred method of virtualization, though it requires
Linux (AFAIK).

Harry you might try another virtualization software, to see if you can
get around this issue, if there are any available for your OS.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] New kernel seems to kill lubuntu in Vbox vm

[Israel]

Hi Harry,
(bottom posting)
On 01/23/2018 06:55 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> [Note: It is an older version of Vbox involved (5.0.40)
> That is due to complications on Openindiana regarding installing
> recent vbox versions.]
>
> I've been trying to setup lubuntu as guest in a vbox vm on an
> openindiana host (solaris x86 11 off-shoot).
>
> I've run quite a few vms on this oi host some for a good while like
> debian and ubuntu which are currently shut down but in working order.
>
> With the lubuntu 17.10: It seems that an `aptitude full-upgrade' has
> installed a new kernel... (version 4.13.0.31-generic) not sure what
> all else but several pkgs.
>
> The new initrd's were generated during the upgrade.
>
> On a reboot called by the software updater when I ran it, the vm
> completely fails.
>
> In the last few hours, I've started from scratch 3 times, each time I
> managed a running lubuntu install but after running `full-upgrade'
> each of them had this same total failure.
>
> The log referenced in the attached screenshot is 3200 lines long and I
> did not recognize a single line that seemed to be useful without
> intimate knowledge of the workings of vbox.
>
> If anyone wants to see it I will post it.
>
> Can anyone give guidance?... are others seeing problem with new kernel
> (version 4.13.0.31-generic)
>
> Backing up to the previous kernel 4.13.0.21-generic allows the login
> screen to appear but once logged in it goes to a black screen with no
> buttons on the bottom panel that seems to be frozen and completely
> unresponsive.
>
>
There have been many issues related to Metldown/Spectre recently (search
for this if you are not familiar with these issues)

One of those issue crept into the kernel.  On some machines this issue
causes some computers problems booting, though I had thought it to be
fully fixed.

Red Hat recently went as far as rolling back their updates, and
preventing the fixes from entering their kernels based on similar issue
to what you report.

So, since Intel/AMD have had serious security issues in their kernel
firmware, these updates are needed, but the fixes also are causing
problems in some cases.

The issue, may simply be Virtual Box, but be aware it might be related
to that specific kernel issue.  Try booting from an older kernel to see
if your problem is fixed.  You may also simply need to update VBox

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Re: [lubuntu-users] lenovo_wmi or acer_wmi for Lenovo laptops (64bit)

[Israel]

On 01/23/2018 06:16 AM, Richard H. McCullough wrote:
>
> I'm now convinced the system clock resetting to London (UTC) time is
> not a CMOS battery problem.
>
> Other people are complaining about this Insider Preview problem on the
> Microsoft Feedback Hub.
>
>
> Richard H. McCullough
> http://ContextKnowledgeSystems.org

Hi,
I am glad you seemed to have figured out all your issues!
If you end up finding out a solution to this problem, please let us
know.  Though hopefully it is simply a bug in the MS Insider Preview
which they will fix, rather than a strange new feature.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] flash in browsers

[Israel]

On 01/20/2018 07:51 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Recent install of lunbuntu 17.18
>
> Attemting to watch msnbc `full episodes' in Chromium-browser I get
> messages saying:
>
>To watch this video, download or enable the adobe flash player
>plug-in in your security preferences
>
> What do we use for `flash' in lubuntu?
>
>
>
Hi simply install

pepperflashplugin-nonfree

from your terminal/gui software installer and you will have Google's
built-in flash available

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Re: [lubuntu-users] lenovo_wmi or acer_wmi for Lenovo loptops (64 bit)

[Israel]

Hi Richard
(inline replies)
On 01/18/2018 12:43 PM, Richard H. McCullough wrote:
>
> I have two Lenovo ideapad laptops: Lenovo 3000 N200 with 4GB RAM and
> Lenovo Z570 with 8GB RAM. 
> I am currently dual booting Z570 with Lubuntu 16.04.3 and Windows 10
> Pro 1709 Insider Preview. 
First things first.
Make sure your ISO image is correct using md5sum.
Personally I like using zsync to download an ISO because it
automatically checks the md5sum and makes sure things are correct.
If the image is flawed re-download it and check it (or use zsync with
the current image, as it should update the image and fix it and save you
downloading time)

> As soon as my N200 is repaired, I plan to dual boot with Lubuntu
> 16.04.3 and Windows 8.1 Pro. 
> (I gave up on Windows 10 because it runs very slow with only 4GB RAM).
>
> Off and on, I get this error on Z570 
>
> acer_wmi: Unsupported machine has AMW0_GUID1, unable to load

This command will list all kernel modules with wmi in their name:
find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -type f -name '*.ko*' |grep wmi
For me I fine and acer_wmi, which is probably the one your computer is
trying to load
You might need to blacklist it, and load a different module instead, or
if it isn't being loaded properly (being blacklisted) you might need to
force it to be loaded.

>
> 1) My initial Lubuntu install with msdos partitions and no EFI System
> partition failed with this error.
This may be a different issue altogether, but I think verifying the
integrity of the ISO is vital here.

> 2) My second Lubuntu install (after re-installing Windows) with GPT
> partitions including  EFI System succeeded.
> But after two (or three?) automatic "Software Updater" sessions, it
> again failed with this error.
Are these Lubuntu software updates, or Windows?
> A confusing factor is that Windows Insider Preview kept resetting my
> clock to London time (I'm in Los Angeles time zone).
> This broke Cygwin make command, and forced me to re-install Cygwin.
>
It may be due to your hardware clock being incorrect.  You might need to
ensure your hardware clock is right.  Windows might assume it is, and
Lubuntu may not be assuming it.  So if your cmos battery is low, it
might be reseting your hwclock to Ubuntu time (Canonical has an office
in London and is located there)
> According to Torvalds GitHub source for acer_wmi.c, N200 is on a
> quirks list of machines that is allowed to use Acer driver.
> Z570 is not on the list, and Torvalds asks that no more Lenovo
> machines be added to the list.
> So I need to know:
> Is there a lenovo_wmi driver?
I am not sure of that I have a Lenovo, and do not see any lenovo
specific kernel modules, however when I search my modules I find:
/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/hid/hid-lenovo.ko

I subsituted $(uname -r) because your kernel will be different from mine
> Was Z570 added to quirks list? If so, is it still on the quirks list?
According to:
http://www.linlap.com/lenovo_ideapad_z570

Some people have gotten it to work well.

You might try a live CD from an earlier release (14.04) to see if it
performs well, and if you have time to try things out, you could install
it to see if it is working.

If things work, you could check the modules that are loaded for the
working kernel, with this command:
lsmod

And then use those modules in 16.04
> Should I try to re-install Lubuntu 16?
>
>
> Dick McCullough
>
>

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Happy and Merry Christmas

[Israel]

On 12/25/2017 07:11 AM, Eric Bradshaw wrote:
> Here's wishing you and yours a Happy and Merry Christmas. Remember the 
> greatest gift ever given. He is the reason for the season.
>
> Eric Bradshaw
> Computers4Christians
> http://Computers4Christians.org

Indeed!

Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays to all the community out there!

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Re: [lubuntu-users] rtl8814au driver?

[Israel]

On 12/19/2017 08:00 AM, Thomas Drebert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Yes, this driver works out of the box with lubuntu 17.10 Kernel 4.13.
>  
> regards
> ThomasD
>
>
Hi Thomas,

Thanks for reporting this information back!

I'll save it in case anyone asks about that again!

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Re: [lubuntu-users] rtl8814au driver?

[Israel]

On 12/18/2017 04:27 PM, Thomas Drebert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I continued my search and find this answer:
>
> https://askubuntu.com/a/968834
> |git clone https://github.com/zebulon2/rtl8814au.git cd rtl8814au make
> sudo make install sudo modprobe 8814au |
> |regards |
> |ThomasD |
>
>
Hi,

Thanks for posting your answer.  Did this work out for you?  It will be
good to know if others need this.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] install problem on MacBook C2D 2007

[Israel]

Hi again.

I used to have one of those 07 MBP laptops, though I was at least the
3rd (or fourth) owner, and received it because it had some issues...
It would not boot nicely with any image, except for the Mac specific
ones, and the NVidia graphics card was most annoying (no working
nouveau, you need proprietary drivers, which are usually not as good as
nouveau is).

Here is the wiki page I wrote about it 3 years ago:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro3-1/Trusty

It is for model number: A1229

For other models look here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro

On 11/30/2017 09:43 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
> --
>
>
>
>
> IIRC you need to get the Mac specific version of the ISO, the
> hybrid EFI
> in those earlier models will not work with the regular AMD64
> images and
> 17.10 does not have one for that.
>
> Here is a link for the latest LTS (16.04)
>
> 
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/16.04.3/release/lubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso
> 
> 
>
>
>
I just realized my goof, that link is *NOT* the Mac specific image, sorry

*THIS LINK is:*
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/14.04/release/lubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64+mac.iso
*
14.04* is the*last version* with a Mac specific build.

The older Macs have a strange hybrid system that is a bit troublesome. 
14.04 was the last version I was able to boot on that model.
So I simply installed it and upgraded to 16.04.  There is probably
another way you can hack the ISO image, or perhaps using rEFInd will
allow you more control of the boot process, though IIRC there were still
issues I faced trying to boot a more modern 64bit ISO.
Later Macs do NOT have this issue, regular amd64 images have the right
EFI setup on the ISO to boot them nicely.

Here is a link to rEFInd
http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
This is a fork of the older rEFIt.
It is a bit troublesome to setup the first time, but works well once you
get it all setup.


> Other question is, what machine and OS are you using to burn the DVD,
> as DU isn't "friendly" to ".iso" . . . whereas Brasero or some linux
> based system has no problem.  If you are using OSX to burn the DVD
> it's best to change the .iso to .dmg --then it should burn OK.
>
Yes this is very important, thanks for adding this in.
> Other question, basic question, was the file checksum number checked? 
> Generally it has to match or there will be problems along the line.
>
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Re: [lubuntu-users] install problem on MacBook C2D 2007

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On 11/29/2017 07:45 AM, Stephen Soucy wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I am trying to run lubuntu 17.10-desktop-amd64.iso on a 2007 MacBook, Core 2 
> Duo 2 GHz processor with 1 GB of RAM. I burned a dvd on my newer MacBook, and 
> when I insert it in the old MacBook, and start with the option key down, it 
> presents me with a choice of my regular hard drive, which has OS X 10.6.8 
> installed, or the dvd (labeled windows). I select the DVD, and after a little 
> whirring, it shows a black screen as follows:
>
>   1.
>   
>   2.
>   
>   Select CD-ROM Boot Type :
>
> At this point, the computer is unresponsive to any keyboard input. The 
> computer eventually spins down and waits for instruction, and I am forced to 
> shut it down.
>
> I have tried to boot from a usb thumb drive, but that doesn’t seem to work on 
> this older machine, though my 2010 MacBook seems to boot from them now, after 
> using Mac Linux USB loader app. Is there a trick to this? 
>
> Is there something extra I need to do when I burn to disk? Look forward to 
> your input. Thanks.
>
> sjsu2
>
>
>
Hi,

IIRC you need to get the Mac specific version of the ISO, the hybrid EFI
in those earlier models will not work with the regular AMD64 images and
17.10 does not have one for that.

Here is a link for the latest LTS (16.04)

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/16.04.3/release/lubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu's repository

[Israel]

Hi again.
On 11/11/2017 08:01 PM, Joe Smith wrote:
> Hi y'all,
>
> Yes I was the one at IRC and asked this question. Thanks for letting
> me know :) Are there other repositories that are free as in freedom
> that allow any users to upload content directly to it, even if it
> contained illegal stuff (such as connecting users to blackmarkets
> (such as drugs and ammunition stores etc)), not that I plan to off
> course download such content but was rather curious if such a
> repository exists?
>
You should use your own server for that.

The things you describe sound like websites, rather than Debian apt
packages (compiled programs/scripts/etc...).
Lubuntu is a set of programs to give you freedom on your computer to use
it directly, without giving up your freedom to a proprietary OS.

There are a variety of web browsers you can use to connect to websites,
though I would *strongly advise* against your mentioned usage.  If you
wanted privacy because you were in an oppressive country trying to have
more freedom of information I would give you names of programs you could
use to help, as well as specific distributions which would make your
internet activity less easy to track.
> Regards
> Joe

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu's repository

[Israel]

Hi (inline below)
On 11/11/2017 12:43 PM, Simon Quigley wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A couple corrections here.
>
> On 11/11/2017 12:23 PM, Israel wrote:
> 

> We have some differences, for example, Ubuntu extends Debian's Britney
> tool to provide extra verification such as running autopkgtests and
> installability tests before releasing for general installability. This
> is done via use of a -proposed partial suite, and then when ready, it
> migrates for people to install. Debian is different in that once
> something is uploaded to Unstable, binaries become available as soon as
> they are done building, so stability is not guaranteed.
I did not realize this, thanks for the extra information here.  That is
even more robust than I initially realized!
>> They use lintian for the Debian package lint checks,and
>> pbuilber to compile it
> Actually, this is incorrect. Launchpad uses sbuild to build the
> packages, then once that is done, the binaries get published to the
> -proposed pocket. Then from there, in this order, package suitability
> for general installation is determined:
>  1. If the package has autopkgtests, run them. If any of the package's
> binaries have reverse dependencies with autopkgtests, run those too
> against the new binaries. All tests must either pass or be "hinted"
> (failures are OK) by a member of the release team.
>  2. Run installation tests with the binaries into the release pocket. If
> the package isn't installable, it doesn't migrate. This avoids broken
> systems on major library transitions.
>  3. Make sure there are no bugs filed against the package with the
> "block-proposed" tag.
>
> More documentation is available here:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ProposedMigration
>
Ahh good to know this, I was just (incorrectly apparently) assuming this
is how the servers worked, based on the prescribed way you build them
locally to test them prior to uploading them to Launchpad (at least for
a PPA).  This is much more robust than I realized, thanks so much for
the clarification here.
>> and make the packages which does some pretty
>> strict checking of the the packaging.  This is all validated via APT.
> Well, not directly by apt. Checksumming of the binaries is done on
> Launchpad and after apt downloads the packages, it verifies the
> integrity of the binaries.
Thanks for making this more clear here, I meant to reference the gpg key
of the repository being imported into apt (in this case the Ubuntu keys)
so that apt will know the source is trusted when communicating with it,
at least this is how I understand the process.
>> there may be a GTK app written in Vala for something, but I
>> may be mistaken.
> Right, gilir might know more about that but for right now we don't have
> any programs we wrote ourself.
Yeah, I think gilir wrote the program used for configuring the session,
that is what I was remembering.
> ...
>
> I hope this clears up any confusion.
>
Yes, thanks for bringing the extra information here it is very
educational, and I really appreciate you taking the time to expand and
also to correct my misconceptions.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu's repository

[Israel]

On 11/11/2017 02:23 AM, Joe Smith wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I wanted to know about Lubuntu's repository out of curiosity.
>
> Does Lubuntu have its own repository, or does it use Github as its
> repository for its programs, if Lubuntu uses Github as their
> repository then does Lubuntu validate all the programs or does Github?
>
> Kind regards
> Joe Smith
>
>
Hi,

Lubuntu uses Launchpad to host the code for building the packages
(desktop meta package, artwork, etc..) on Ubuntu's servers.  The Ubuntu
build servers use the normal Debian way for checking and validating
things.  They use lintian for the Debian package lint checks, and
pbuilber to compile it and make the packages which does some pretty
strict checking of the the packaging.  This is all validated via APT. 
Lubuntu packages are directly included in the Ubuntu repositories (not a
PPA)

LXDE/Qt hosts their code on Github.  I am not sure what they use for
their builds.  But this is the compiled code (the panel, filemanager,
etc...), Lubuntu doesn't really write many compiled programs/packages,
though IIRC there may be a GTK app written in Vala for something, but I
may be mistaken.


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Re: [lubuntu-users] Lenovo Ideapad 110

[Israel]

On 11/09/2017 09:41 AM, Polo Oyarzún wrote:
> Estimados:
> Informo que instalé primero xubuntu 7.10 en un lenovo ideapad 110 y al
> apagar el sistema queda suspendido en "apagando".
> La única forma de apagarlo es apretando el botón de encendido/apagado.
> Para descartar que no fuera un problema exclusivo de Xfce hice la
> instalación de Lubuntu 17.10 y se mantuvo el mismo problema por lo que
> debí volver el equipo a linux mint sonya 18.2 
>
>
>
Hi,

this mailing list is an English language mailing list, so I will reply
in English (my Spanish is not very good anyhow).

I don't fully understand everything you wrote, but from what I gather
this may help.

sudo apt install pm-utils

pm-is-supported --suspend; echo $?

If you have a 0 it is working, anything else means you may need
proprietary drivers, or it may not work.

Suspend requires support form your video card.

Please give the video card information

lspci -v | grep VGA

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Consultation on Lubuntu Order system

[Israel]

Hi
There are a few options to custom design your ISO:
*Remastersys*
http://www.remastersys.org/
There are many tutorials, but maybe not in Chinese?

*ISOmaker*
https://github.com/Israel-/ISOmaker
Which is a program I made, that could be adapted to Lubuntu
Specifically, and modifying themes, including any packages you want by
default.
This is untested with Lubuntu specifically though, and made to use with
JWM/ToriOS.

There is also manual editing of the ISO file (similar to how uck used to
work)
https://nathanpfry.com/how-to-customize-an-ubuntu-installation-disc/


Sorry, I do not know how to write simplified Chinese, and I only speak
very minimal Chinese.

On 09/18/2017 03:06 AM, 王小华 wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Very like the Lubuntu system, I would like to use it dd to u disk, do
> not install, but the default of the ISO has a lot of the software I
> want, so I want to customize it:
>
> 1, I need to know how to unpack ISO
> 2, install the software I want
> 3, some settings modify, such as theme, mouse, font, time zone and so on
> 4, complete the above, and then packaged into ISO, DD write to the USB
> can be started normally
> 5, boot support BIOS and UEFI (x32 and x64)
>
> What I need is a tutorial, method, specific steps of operation, if you
> have time, can write a tutorial to me, I am willing to pay 2000 RMB
> ($305 USD).
>
> If you are interested please contact me: kxs-co@139. com, it is better
> to be Simplified Chinese, personal English is too bad.
>
> 以下为中文：
>
> 您好！
>
> 很喜欢Lubuntu系统，我想把它dd到U盘使用，不用安装，但默认的iso有很多我想要的软件都没有，于是想自己订制它：
>
> 1，我需要知道如何解压iso
> 2，安装我想要的软件
> 3，一些设置修改，比如主题，鼠标，字体，时区等
> 4，完成以上，再打包成iso，dd写入到USB能正常的启动
> 5，启动支持BIOS和UEFI（x32和x64）
>
> 我需要的是教程，方法，具体的操作步骤，如果您有时间，可以写份教程给我，我愿意支付2000RMB（约305
> USD）。
>
> 如果您有兴趣请联系我：kxs...@139.com，最好是会简体中文，个人英文太差。
>
>
>
>
>

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Keyboard configuration error on Lubuntu 16.04.3 LTS?

[Israel]

On 09/15/2017 05:42 PM, Mark F wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Israel  <mailto:israeld...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> > I have a script to do this 
>
> That implies it's been this way for some time. Do you know the history
> of this problem? (Is the tool not maintained? If so, would it make
> sense to include your script in the Lubuntu distro?).
>
>
Hi,

It is a known issue I think, at least it has been around as long as I
know of.

The script is actually part of ToriOS, and I would gladly give them to
the devs!

I have developed a lot of things to address those kinds of issues I face
in various DE/Distros.  Feel free to search launchpad for a bug, OR open
one.

you can e-mail me directly and I will weigh in on the bug report as well!


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Re: [lubuntu-users] Keyboard configuration error on Lubuntu 16.04.3 LTS?

[Israel]

On 09/15/2017 05:05 PM, Mark F wrote:
> I was playing with this a little more. 
>
> If I do 
>
> amixer -q sset Master mute
>
>
> and
>
> amixer -q sset Speaker unmute
>
>
> It works! (mute the "Speaker" device, and unmute the "Master" device
> works too.). I can't mute/unmute the same device.
>
> It wouldn't be too hard to write a shell script to determine the
> current state, and either mute the master, or unmute the Speaker.
> (With more work you could find all the available devices[1] and unmute
> each one. Someone may already have this.).
>
> You could change the keybinding (in the lubuntu-rc.xml file mentioned
> in my previous email) to execute your script instead of the amixer
> command.
>
> I wrote something like that to toggle the mousepad. It's not too
> complicated.
>
>

I have a script to do this

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~torios-dev/torios/trunk/view/head:/usr/bin/amixer-toggle

It checks for a lot of things.  basically download the raw file, then:

chmod +x amixer-toggle

sudo cp amixer-toggle /usr/bin

Change the keybinding for XF86AudioMute defined in
~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml

to

amixer-toggle

This script also will work if you have pulseaudio installed using the
pulseaudio command line tools

I have a few other scripts as well if you need

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Difficulties with wifi during installation

[Israel]

On 09/10/2017 08:41 PM, JMZ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently when I've tried to install Lubuntu, I've found that the wifi
> setup screen will not recognize my passcode.  There is only one
> account on my wifi system.  All the other computers, tablets, phones
> etc. accept the passcode, so the problem is not a bad passcode.  I had
> thought that I could enter the passcode later after Lubuntu had
> installed and then run sudo apt-get upgrade, but I couldn't logon to
> my wifi after installation.
>
> There are two installation programs for Lubuntu: one graphical and one
> text-based.  The graphical installation program is the one giving me
> grief -- the passcode works fine in the text-based version.  Is there
> any way for me to download a newer iso of Lubuntu with the text-based
> installation program (such as 17.04 zesty)?  I had the text-based
> program on an old 16.04 thumb drive, but this drive is now useless.
>
> Thanks, Jordan
>
>
Hi

You can download the "alternate" iso here

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/17.04/release/

Either the 64bit version:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/17.04/release/lubuntu-17.04-alternate-amd64.iso

or the 32bit:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/17.04/release/lubuntu-17.04-alternate-i386.iso


Sorry your wifi is not working correctly in that ISO.

What type of Wifi card do you have?

The terminal command:

lspci -vv |grep Net

Usually will give good information


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Re: [lubuntu-users] Audio through HDMI setting?

[Israel]

On 08/01/2017 12:01 PM, Jeff Kurzner wrote:
>
> That solved it thank you.
>
>  
>
You are most welcome!

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Audio through HDMI setting?

[Israel]

On 08/01/2017 09:37 AM, Jeff Kurzner wrote:
>
> I don’t see any Pulseaudio settings/app.  I did bring up the amixer in
> ALSA but did not see any settings to change.  I also did set the user
> to have audio control as suggested by another poster, but still no audio.
>
>  
>
Hi,
You need to run

sudo apt install pavucontrol

OR
if you want to still use apt-get because you don't like colors

sudo apt-get install pavucontrol

before you can bring up any of the pulse audio settings.
This should also bring in pulseaudio, which IIRC Lubuntu does not
include by default.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Audio through HDMI setting?

[Israel]

On 08/01/2017 08:38 AM, Jeff Kurzner wrote:
>
> First time install of lubuntu for a Plex server on ASUS
> hardware.  System seems to work fine and I get HDMI hi res output from
> the HDMI connector, but no audio.  Is there some setting I am missing?  
>
>
> 
>   Virus-free. www.avast.com
> 
>
>
> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
>
>
Hi,

I you can enable it through PulseAudio Volume Control as arcesson said.

You can also make a specific set of rules and scripts to do it
automatically (more or less).

I have these files, but I do not think I can attach them directly (I
learned this from the ever helpful Arch Wiki), so here they are :

*/usr/bin/hdmi-switch*

#!/bin/bash
## TAKEN from ARCH wiki... thanks guys for always being awesome :D
#https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#HDMI_output_configuration
USER_NAME=$(w -hs | awk -v vt=tty$(fgconsole) '$0 ~ vt {print $1}')
USER_ID=$(id -u "$USER_NAME")
HDMI_STATUS=$(-- 
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Re: [lubuntu-users] [Networking] wi-fi disconnects and won't reconnect 16.04

[Israel]

Hi,
(bottom posting)

On 06/07/2017 04:37 PM, Tim Embler wrote:
> I do not have a solution for this but I have also been trying to locate
> a fix for a couple of months now. I have 5 systems running Lubuntu and
> only one is having this issue which is also using an Intel wireless
> card. The other 4 systems are using either a Buffalo or TPLink card. I
> have tried checking the regulatory domain, disabled ipv6, tried enabling
> antenna aggregation, tried 2.4ghz instead of 5, disabled n mode,
> disabled bluetooth, disabled bluetooth coexistence, disabled power
> management, turned off watchdog, and I am sure I have tried a few other
> things that I do not recall at the moment.
>
>
>
> On 6/7/17 2:48 PM, Jonathan Thacker wrote:
>> I upgraded lubuntu to the newest version a month ago and ever since then, 
>> the wifi will disconnect randomly and will not reconnect without a reboot. I 
>> went to the forums and could not find a specific answer. I ran the script 
>> suggested on the networking section of the forums and posted the output 
>> below (2 outputs, one with wifi working, one after it disconnects). 
>>
>>
When I encounter a similar issue I restart the network service (instead
of rebooting)

systemctl restart NetworkManager

You can also make it a desktop file so it will be in your menu, or on
your desktop.

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Fix Wireless Connection
Name[en]=Fix Wireless Connection
Name[en_US]=Fix Wireless Connection
Name[en_GB]=Fix Wireless Connection
GenericName=Fix Wireless Connection
Comment=Restart Network Manager to fix wireless internet
Icon=network-error
Exec=systemctl restart NetworkManager
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=System;

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Re: [lubuntu-users] how is lubuntu iso made? anybody got a script?

[Israel]

On 04/15/2017 10:13 AM, Spike wrote:
> I have been trying to install lubuntu (lxde) on top of mini.iso
> because I'm pxe booting all my desktop and servers and it would be
> useful to not have to maintain all kinds fo diff nfsroots for
> installation.
>
> however every time I tried to install from mini and then add
> lubuntu-desktop on top I got a broken environment, where the most
> obvious brokenness was the language part.
>
> I tried to uninstall ibus and switch to fcitx as you suggested, but
> that never went quite well... the switch happens but then things like
> sogou pinyin, which my users here need for chinese input, doesn't work
> where instead it works perfectly fine if installed on a lubuntu iso.
>
> Therefore there must be something different done with the ISO building
> that I've been unable to figure out.
>
> thanks,
>
> Spike
>
...
Hi Spike,
Ok, I see what you are now saying.  mini.iso + sudo apt install
lubuntu-desktop
You might try to install lubuntu-core first, then lubuntu-desktop

One thing to check would be permissions of the home folder, and the
hidden contents of things like
.config/
.cache/
et cetera...
My guess is that either you are missing something vital (though
lubuntu-core is a dependency of lubuntu-desktop) OR the way you are
doing it is messing up permissions in something in your home folder.
It could be something entirely different but those two are the first two
things I'd look at

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Re: [lubuntu-users] how is lubuntu iso made? anybody got a script?

[Israel]

On 04/15/2017 09:26 AM, Spike wrote:
> Israel,
>
> thanks for your input, and maybe I'm doing something wrong, but like I
> said if I used what you describe, ie a normal install with preseed I
> get something different than the lubuntuCD. the most striking
> difference is the presence of ibus and language support being broken
> (while it works out of the box if I install from lubuntu CD).
>
> I have been unable to install a plain ubuntu distro and then lxde on
> top. Do you have any idea what I may be missing?
>
> thanks,
>
> Spike
>
..
how are you installing the 'plain' ubuntu distro, is this the mini.iso
or are you installing Ubuntu with unity?
I have installed lubuntu-desktop on top of other DE before and I have
not had any issues, but if you are installing on an environment with
ibus already included the language support might be broken in ibus, and
you can switch to fcitx (which is used by Lubuntu now IIRC).

The preseed is used to create the ISO and the subsequent install to
disk. It is used by the Debian installer (ubiquity is the Ubuntu
graphical installer front end to this).  So, if you are trying to
install the meta-package 'lubuntu-desktop' you will have the Lubuntu
install on top of whatever you install.
If you install 'lxde' then you will not get 'lubuntu-desktop' installed
ONLY lxde

To see the difference between the packages run

apt show lubuntu-desktop

apt show lxde

If you are using an older version use 'apt-cache' instead of 'apt'

I hope this clears things up a bit

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Re: [lubuntu-users] "Power Off" Panel item

[Israel]

On 03/19/2017 12:34 PM, Heima wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have accidentally deleted my panel. I have created a new one with
> applets added manually but there is no standalone "Power Off" applet.
> You can already access "Power Off" settings from the /Menu --> Logout/.
> Does anyone know where I can find this standalone applet ?
>
> Regards.
>
>
> Sent with ProtonMail  Secure Email.
>
>
>

Hi, I think the item is actually hidden, I only have LXQt on this
computer so I cannot check the regular Lubuntu flavor... but you should
look in /usr/share/applications/

There should be something called shutdown.desktop or something like
this... IIRC.  It has been a while, and my kids are on my regular
Lubuntu machine right now so I cannot look :D

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Re: [lubuntu-users] LXDE components stable PPA

[Israel]

On 12/12/2016 06:44 PM, Lucas Dias wrote:
> Hello!
>
> There is a PPA with LXDE components updated to LTS versions? For
> example, I need use the Trusty version, but I wanted use the PCManFM
> 1.2.4, then I had to compile the code, and not is very practical. The
> same to LXrandR 0.3.1
>
> Thanks
>
>
Hi Lucas,
This is not very practical for a numerous reasons.  For one, libraries
for newer versions are different between versions.  So the only way to
use updated versions of software is to either compile them on your
machine with the current libraries, OR up/downgrade your system to the
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Re: [lubuntu-users] Google NOT as default homepage

[Israel]

On 12/06/2016 09:47 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 08:05:31 -0700, Mark F wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 5:05 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>> In short, Jane Doe wants Google [...] *doesn't care* if some
>>> software she installed phones home or not.  
>> Does she even know?
> She doesn't, or at best she heard about it on television and ignores
> it, or follows idiotic hints given by "experts" on television.
>
>> I think this is an education challenge.
> Yes, we needed to learn how to use forks and knives, to drive a car and
> things like this and much more important, we needed to learn not to
> trust the stranger who gives away candies at the children's playground.
> People don't understand how important it is to learn how to use a
> multi-tool and that strangers who give away candies in the Internet
> could be the same people who give away candies at the children's
> playground. Thinking barriers! We are living in an age were people visit
> a weekend healer class and after that they guess they know more about
> "true" healing, than somebody who studied medicine at an university.
>
>> I still wish there were post-install configurations to choose from.
>> I've never understood the all-or-nothing approach to these matters.
> I installed Ubuntu from the sever image and disabled all package
> bundles, let alone that my Arch Linux by default is an install without
> everything and that Arch's policy is the opposite of Ubuntu's policy in
> regards to auto-starts. Ubuntu auto-starts everything that could be
> auto-started by default, even when installing from the server image
> without even installing X. However, there is already choice, more or
> less all distros provide some kind of expert install. Either be an
> expert/power user or an averaged user, everything in between is risky.
>
> You can not simply chose to install the "more privacy" meta-package, you
> need to maintain "more privacy" with knowledge. You need to become
> self-responsible, learning and maintenance of the install never stops.
>
> In regards to security it's the same. First of all, after downloading
> the Ubuntu or Ubuntu flavour image, the user needs to check the ISO
> against the PGP signed checksums. When Ubuntu is installed, it's not
> only important to upgrade, a user also needs to audit
> https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/ , resp.
> http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/ at least once a day
> and the user needs to have the skills to understand what to do or not
> to do.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
Hi,
As a former BBS'er we should all realize the internet is intrinsically
without privacy.  When you connect to the 'Internet' you are hooking
your computer to someone else's computer through an internet service
provider that handles the transfer of every single packet your computer
throws into the web (which is a bunch of other people's computers that
are interconnected like a web).  Sure, ixquick and ddg are better for
privacy, but only privacy towards Google.  Your ISP can have everything
you do if they want.
There are plenty of privacy focused distros, like Qubes, or Tails,
etc...  Even using Puppy (or Lubuntu) on a USB on a public computer is
pretty secure.

Now, I personally do not like Google for many reasons, and always change
it to either ixquick(startpage) or ddg, I like duckduckgo because of the
terminal like search interface using the !, and I like that it does not
'Bubble' me like Google which tries to figure me out and will give me
completely wrong answers rather than simply searching for what I ask
because Googoo thinks it knows me better than I know what I am looking for.

Should Lubuntu change the Ubuntu default setup?  It would be very hard,
every time Ubuntu updates Firefox, Lubuntu would have to update their
lubuntu-startpage-that-is-not-google package in the repositories, which
is unreasonable to ask.
Qupzilla uses duckduckgo by default IIRC and *SHOULD* IMHO be the best
choice for LXQt Lubuntu.

In my country people use the word 'google' to mean search the internet,
so the average user would not know how to google something if google
doesn't exist.  Most people do not know how to change the default search
program in their browser.

I think the most reasonable option is to build up the popularity of
alternative search engines until people don't like Google just like
excite, hotbot or any of the other search engines we used before google
changed searching altogether.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Boot Lubuntu from USB bios & uefi

[Israel]

On 11/30/2016 12:48 PM, Wilbert Heeringa wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> For a course in Ivory Coast I want to distribute USB sticks with
> Lubuntu Linux and a Docker container inside. Docker works only for 64
> bits OS, so I need a 64 bits version.
>
> Since I don't know whether the students' computers work with BIOS or
> UEFI, it would be great to create bootable pendrives that work for any
> computer.
>
> I studied a bit about syslinux and found this very complicated, and
> also very risky. This is simply too much for me.
>
> I looked around further and found this site:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/UEFI-and-BIOS
> 
>
> with a repository of images at:
> http://phillw.net/isos/linux-tools/uefi-n-bios/
>
> made by Phil Whiteside. That looks wonderful. My question is now: is
> there also a 64 bit version available? For some it is explicitely
> indicated that they are meant for i386 (so I should not use them), but
> I feel unsure about the other ones.
>
> Also: we buy either 8GB or 16 GB pendrives. Which image would work best?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wilbert
>
>
>
>
>
>
Hi Wilbert,
Nio Wiklund has a great tool called mkusb which can definitely handle that.
You can also create custom images and install them using his wonderful
tools zmktbl and OBI.  I suggest starting a conversation with Nio!


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Re: [lubuntu-users] dropping i386/PPC (was: Re: [lubuntu-devel] State of PPC)

[Israel]

On 11/16/2016 06:45 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
> PPC has been dropped as a release architecture in Debian. It's not
> looking too good there.
Well... That is new.
I knew they were dropping i586, but I thought they would keep PPC...
maybe it is just PPC64?  Alas..  maybe PPC is really doing to be dead. 
Debian Jessie is supported until at least 2018 but that doesn't mean
PPC will be supported that long.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] dropping i386/PPC (was: Re: [lubuntu-devel] State of PPC)

[Israel]

On 11/16/2016 04:58 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
> Aere: I think what Ubuntu is discussing is removing i386/x86/32-bit,
> i.e. going all amd64/x64/64-bit. And yes, it would very negatively
> impact many Lubuntu users as well as the goals of the Lubuntu project
> as a whole.
>
> Unfortunately, I was not able to make it to the session. For those of
> us in the same boat, here's some links:
>  * YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXzYG4d7poQ
>  * EtherPad: http://pad.ubuntu.com/uos-1611-architecture-discussions
>  *
> IRC: https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2016/11/16/%23ubuntu-uos-core.html#t14:55
>
> The majority of this conversation concerned PPC. I think the long
> answer is there are some rather annoying endian bugs and a yaboot
> issue that no one currently supporting PPC (Lubuntu, Ubuntu MATE,
> Ubuntu Server) has the resources to deal with. Not to mention
> upstream. I'll let those leading the discussion (cc'd) confirm this,
> but it sounds like by when support for existing PPC releases end, it
> will be time to stop providing any sort of PPC images.
>
> As far as my perspective is concerned, I'm perfectly happy with
> dropping PPC. It makes me sad. PPC brought me to the Lubuntu
> community. However, it becomes increasingly harder to make PPC users
> happy. The successes that we have had in recent times are largely by
> accident. Neither Lubuntu nor Ubuntu MATE have the resources to
> support PPC. It does sound like Ubuntu Server will be dropping PPC. I
> think it only makes sense for us to follow suit.
>
> Apparently, there are plans in place to evaluate the health of the PPC
> port during the Z cycle and so a decision on removing PPC from the
> archives will likely come in 6 months time. Even then, it sounds like
> that's going to be a temporary delay to PPC's inevitable removal.
>
We can still use Debian PPC if Ubuntu drops support, and Debian
currently supports PPAs, though PPC could only use non-binary PPAs
(icons/gtk themes/scripts/python programs/etc)
Could there be a push to get some of the Lubuntu goodies upstream to
Debian?  I am thinking of things like Rafael's artwork specifically. 
There are not too many Lubuntu specific programs not available in
Debian, that I am aware of.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Obkey add

[Israel]

On 11/13/2016 02:34 AM, Корень Зла wrote:
> Seen a Obkey tool for OpenBox keybind config and add it as defoult in Lubuntu.
> Also add .deb package in Lubuntu reprository i any way cant conf\make\install 
> this tool from source code.
> Thank u.
>
Where did you see this tool?
Please provide a link and we might be able to make a PPA for it (if it
is easy enough)


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Re: [lubuntu-users] Upgraded to Lubuntu 16.10, lost monitor detection

[Israel]

On 11/11/2016 10:37 AM, Aere Greenway wrote:
> On 11/11/2016 01:43 AM, Ben Coleman wrote:
>> I've just upgraded one of my machines from Lubuntu 16.04 to Lubuntu
>> 16.10, and find that my resolution has gone from 1600x900 to 1280x1024.
>> The video adapter is an Nvidia Geforce 6200, and the monitor is an Acer
>> K222HQL, attached via DVI.  The monitor was correctly detected under
>> 16.04, but I now find that the Monitor Settings dialog shows it as a
>> 'Default Monitor'.  This failure to detect the monitor occurs whether
>> I'm using the Nvidia binary driver or using the Nouveau driver.  Any
>> idea if this is a know bug, or if there is anything I can do to fix it?
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>
>>
>
> Ben:
>
> This problem has affected me too. 
>
> At least two of the monitors in my test bed are now treated as default
> monitors - including a fairly modern Samsung SyncMaster 2220 WM. 
>
> There is a complicated way, using a command-line interface, that
> allows you to overcome this. 
>
> Unfortunately, as is typical of command-line interfaces, it requires
> you to remember a lot of detailed information, and I have already
> forgotten how to fix it, and can't find the e-mails from this list
> that enabled me to work-around the problem. 
>
> It would be good if under "Preferences", the "Monitor Settings" tool,
> would let you set the display to parameters you knew worked before
> upgrading to the new system level, but it does not provide this. 
>
> I hope there is a good reason so much currently working hardware is
> being abandoned by Linux. 
>
> On the other hand, if this abandonment is accidental (and some list
> was accidentally left out), that the problem could possibly be
> corrected. 
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> Aere
>
>

arandr is a good program for testing out different resolutions (much
better than the default Lubuntu program IMO)

You could use that to set things up.  It will make a script for you, and
if need be you can manually run that script.

There is a long way to make it automatic.  I use one for HDMI displays
that might help (it is from the archlinux wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#HDMI_output_configuration)

Here are the three files:

/etc/udev/rules.d/99-hdmi_sound.rules

KERNEL=="card0", SUBSYSTEM=="drm", ACTION=="change",
RUN+="/usr/bin/systemctl start hdmi_sound_toggle.service"

/etc/systemd/system/hdm_sound_toggle.service

[Unit]
Description=hdmi sound hotplug

[Service]
Type=simple
RemainAfterExit=no
ExecStart=/usr/bin/hdmi_sound_toggle.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

And the script: /usr/bin/hdmi-switch

#!/bin/bash
USER_NAME=$(w -hs | awk -v vt=tty$(fgconsole) '$0 ~ vt {print $1}')
USER_ID=$(id -u "$USER_NAME")
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Re: [lubuntu-users] pcspkr bell issue

[Israel]

On 10/23/2016 01:25 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using lubuntu-16.10-desktop-amd64.iso as live media. After the Lxde
> session started I run a script [attached]. One thing done by the script
> is enabling the PC speaker beep.
>
> If the script run for one time launched in lxterminal, the bell doesn't
> work. Nothing pulseaudio related is shown by ps aux and lsmod shows that
> pcspkr is loaded after the script run. All changes applied to lxterminal
> and xfce4-terminal are applied, I just need to close and open
> lxterminal, resp. just open xfce4-terminal for the first time. However,
> the bell doesn't work. If I run the script for the second time, the bell
> works, even without closing and opening a terminal again, but not
> before I closed and opened lxterminal one time.
>
> If a mechanism would lock something as long as lxterminal is opened,
> just closing and reopening the terminal should do the trick. I don't
> understand why it works, if I close and reopen the terminal + run the
> script a second time. As far as I can see nothing in this script and
> the 126428 similar scripts I tested before, does something related to
> the issue. Nothing that already is killed, purged and loaded gets
> killed, purged or loaded a second time.
>
> Any idea how I could enable the bell by running a script just one time?
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
>
maybe you need a bit of time after it loads...
perhaps running

modprobe pcspkr && sleep 10 # or whatever amount you want

## the only real thing getting done would be sourcing your bashrc

source ~/.bashrc  ## you might need /home/user instead of ~ if you run
as root

printf \\a




the other thing ???might?? be an issue is that xset *might* need
to be 'refreshed' with

xset b on

Though you could add

xset q |grep bell

before the modprobe to see if you need that which you probably don't.


Also... you might need to use setterm

setterm --bleangth 1000

maybe even the --bfreq option...

Just some guesses... I have never tried to enable the beep personally,
only disable it :D


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Re: [lubuntu-users] "Software" and Ubuntu One?

[Israel]

On 10/22/2016 10:57 AM, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 22 October 2016 at 16:38, Mark F  > wrote:
>
> I have used apt-get a lot. If I know what I need to install, I do
> it that way. But, when looking for things to install, I like a
> "software center" which narrows the choices. The Synaptic package
> manager is nice as a UI to the command line. But, it shows a lot
> of stuff you're not normally interested in. (Searching for GIMP
> produces a lot of output to wade through when all you want is GIMP.).
>
>
> I might have a solution to that problem. Start Synaptic Package
> Manager (SPM), click on "Search". On the resulting dialogue box
> (marked "Find"), there should be an option labelled "Look in",
> probably with the value "Description and Name". Click on it and select
> "Name". Doing that on my system for GIMP generates 37 results instead
> of 122.
>
> HTH,
>
>
> Ian
>
> -- 
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> -- My writing - https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/
> -- Free Software page -
> https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software
>
>
>

Hi,

I would like to point out that the new apt is really nice

sudo apt command

sudo apt search searchterm

works great... you can also run it through grep

apt search searchterm | grep something

like

apt search gimp |grep gimp

show you all packages with only gimp in the name

apt now even has a really pretty progress indicator.

I like the terminal so I am advocating for it. :D

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Re: [lubuntu-users] "Software" and Ubuntu One?

[Israel]

On 10/19/2016 11:25 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
> On 10/19/2016 09:24 PM, Mark F wrote:
>>
>> The reason that we replaced this with GNOME Software in 16.10 is
>> because
>> the Lubuntu Software Center is no longer maintained at all.
>>
>>
>> Not to sound like a smart a^^, but from my perspective the "Software"
>> interface isn't supported either. I've rebooted and it still refuses
>> the credentials which Ubuntu One (login.ubuntu.com
>> <http://login.ubuntu.com>) has no problem with.
>>
>> Has anyone actually used it? Maybe you have to use it to install
>> something "nonfree." I'm not sure why it lists libreoffice as
>> "nonfree." I used to install it all the time without any such
>> consideration.
>>
>> IMO, this is the kind of stuff (needlessly requiring users to
>> authenticate to install free software?) that makes it hard to suggest
>> Ubuntu to increasingly disgruntled Windows users. I know GRUB and
>> things are difficult in their own right. But, installing Libreoffice
>> shouldn't be this much drama. (Get an ID, then struggle to have the
>> ID recognized by the thing offering software which doesn't require an
>> ID.). 
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 7:36 PM, Israel > <mailto:israeld...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Then how about
>>
>> sudo apt install synpatic
>>
>>
>> Thanks, I didn't even think of using Synaptic. It's already installed
>> in Lubuntu. I found Libreoffice there and installed it.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> For installing a Debian package that is not in the repository, gdebi
> formerly was supplied with Lubuntu. 
>
> As of 16.10, it seems to use gnome-software for installing such a
> package. 
>
> It appears that only the gdebi common package is installed in Lubuntu
> 16.10. 
>
> Although gnome-software (a.k.a. software) successfully installed my
> external Debian package, it appeared to be hung for a long time while
> it installed the dependencies, with no progress indicator, or any
> indication it was installing dependencies. 
>
> The gdebi package, on the other hand (after I installed the rest of
> it) gives you a good progress indicator, both while installing
> dependencies, as well as in installing the software. 
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> Aere
>
>

I really like gdebi for these very reasons Aere!

It is actually easier than the terminal method (though you can use it
from a terminal).  It is something I automatically install usually anyhow.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] "Software" and Ubuntu One?

[Israel]

On 10/19/2016 09:34 PM, Simon Quigley wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> You can (from a terminal)
>>
>> sudo apt install lubuntu-software-center
> The reason that we replaced this with GNOME Software in 16.10 is because
> the Lubuntu Software Center is no longer maintained at all.
>
> I would recommend that you not use it.
>

Good to know.

Then how about

sudo apt install synpatic

This one does not require UbuntuOne and is still a GUI.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] "Software" and Ubuntu One?

[Israel]

On 10/19/2016 09:21 PM, Mark F wrote:
> Is anyone else having problems with the new "Software" feature which
> appears to have replaced the (IMO) very nice Lubuntu Software Center? 
>
> I'm just trying to install Libre Office. It keeps insisting I have to
> login using an Ubuntu One credential. I can go to ubuntu.com
>  and login. But, when I use the same email and
> password in "Software" it says it's invalid.
>
> This is irritating. The original interface was much snappier to use.
> And, I don't understand why I'm being prompted for credentials to
> install a package that I've never had to do that with.
>
> I keep going to "Ubuntu One" and signing in. But, "Software" keeps
> telling me "invalid email or password."
>
> Is it just me?
>
>
>
>

I have never used that program.

You can (from a terminal)

sudo apt install lubuntu-software-center

I am partial to the terminal for software installation

examples:

apt search /keyword/

apt list /partialpackagename/

apt show /packagename/

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Does a default Lubuntu dark theme exist?

[israel dahl]

Rafael was indeed working on it once upon a time. The notifications had a big 
visual bug, but Rafael did get nice panel icons working. You can manually 
change the panel colors (background and text) plus there are a variety of dark 
open box themes you can get even more from the web
http://openbox.org/wiki/Openbox:Themes
As long as the icon set you use supports a dark theme will work with your panel 
indicators.

Regards

Simon Quigley  wrote:

>Adding Rafael Laguna, our artwork guy.
>
>I would personally love a dark theme, but from what I remember, that is
>a thing of the past. Could you explain, Rafael?
>
>On 08/28/2016 05:07 PM, scrooya...@riseup.net wrote:
>> I'm playing a bit with the themes and icons and i can't really find a
>> nice dark theme. That also has themed the grey window borders.
>> 
>> Lubuntu-dark-panel isn't exactly dark.
>> 
>> I now have dark panel configured with the natura color theme and that
>> has a nice feel to it though the grey is still keeping it very bright.
>> 
>> And if i manually change the colors how do i then save the theme so that
>> i can share my config?
>> I mean where should the theme be saved?  When i press the "create a
>> theme archive .obt" button it wants me to select a directory where to
>> store it, why doesn't is in point already to the directory? What
>> directory should that be?  Whatever location i choose, it does not
>> accept my choice.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
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Re: [lubuntu-users] Keyboard shortcuts (for touchpad enable/disable)

[Israel]

On 09/07/2016 04:24 PM, Basil Fernie wrote:
This is beginning to sound rather easy to implement: have a little 
listener process monitoring keyboard activity.. whenever a key is 
pressed, the touchpad is automatically set "off" for say 500-600ms, 
after which it is set "on" again. No need to fiddle with drivers, 
key-combos... User must be able to set delay, with delay=0 meaning 
touchpad permanently off.


Any takers?

Basil

...
Hi Basil,
This would be an OK idea, and easy to implement, but the issue you run 
into is having a near continual 'sleep' going, which eats memory.
You could write a program to do this but I think a touchpad toggle 
script is easier, and makes more sense, as well as saves your resources:


#!/bin/bash
CURRENT=$(synclient |grep TouchpadOff)
# get the current touchpadoff value... 0 is on 1 is off
if [[ "${CURRENT/0}" != "$CURRENT" ]]
then
  #  touchpad is on, so turn it off
  synclient TouchpadOff=1
else
  # touchpad is off, so  turn it on
  synclient TouchpadOff=0
fi

Just simply make this an executable file and edit your openbox config 
file to make a shortcut to run this script
It is simple and easy.  It automatically turns it off OR on depending on 
the current state.


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Re: [lubuntu-users] Scanning thru network not working?

[Israel]

On 09/02/2016 02:13 PM, Barry Titterton wrote:

On 02/09/16 13:08, Liam Proven wrote:

On 2 September 2016 at 13:57, Marlon Ng  wrote:

As stated above, network printing is possible.  But I get this error when
running "Simple Scan":


Printing and scanning are 2 totally different functions.

The computers do not "know" that the fact that they are done by the same device.

So having printing working is 100% unconnected with scanning.

I don't know any way to do what you ask. It might be possible, but I
know of no way except expensive enterprise network scanners.



I think that it depends upon the driver software that is bundled with
the device. I have a Brother MFD that claims to be able to scan over
wifi. I haven't bothered to check this as I don't see the point: You
need to be sitting at the scanner if you want to scan a set documents so
I only use the USB connection.

Cheers,

Barry T


Hi Barry,
It is useful if you need to scan things, and do work on them when the 
kids are asleep and the printer/scanner is in the living room.

I have used it on a few occasions.
It is also nice not to have to plug a cord in, you just turn on the 
printer, then scan.
There are 'few' times it is needed, mostly it is nice to not need to 
plug in a cord just to scan.



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Re: [lubuntu-users] Scanning thru network not working?

[Israel]

On 09/02/2016 06:57 AM, Marlon Ng wrote:

Two desktop computers, both connected to the same wifi.

Desktop 1 is windows 7. An Epson L210 is connected to this machine via 
cable.


Desktop 2 is Lubuntu 16.04.1.  This machine can print with the Epson 
L210 (which is connected to Desktop 1 via cable).  I suppose this is 
possible thru the installed smbclient, correct?  Desktop 1 needs to be 
running, obviously.


Desktop 2, in addition to having this installed:

epson-inkjet-printer-201207w_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_i386.deb

also has "iscan" installed. Although Lubuntu already comes with 
"Simple Scan".


As stated above, network printing is possible.  But I get this error 
when running "Simple Scan":


"No scanners detected.  Please check your scanner is connected and 
powered on"


and this error when I run "iscan"

"Could not send command to scanner. Check the scanner's status."

Please note that network printing is only possible because I had to 
manually type in:


smb://192.168.1.105/EPSON%20L210%20Series 



in the "Windows Printer via SAMBA" (which you can find when you click 
the +Add button in Printers app.


I believe that is not the best way to do it? I'm not sure, but I think 
it used to be that I click "Find Network Printer" and type the ip 
address of the computer to which the Epson printer is connected 
(Desktop 1 / windows 7 machine), then it would be able to detect the 
printer and I would continue from there.


I wonder if that has anything to do with the network scanning problem.

In other words, network printing is possible only because of a 
workaround; the root of the problem seems unsolved, and so the network 
scanning problem is to be expected.  Am I wrong?


Please also note that the following files are installed.

cups
sane
smbclient
samba
cifs-utils

Thanks for your time







Hi,

I have an HP DeskJet 3510 and scanning from WiFi works flawlessly and 
requires no setup.  I use the gnome printer tool to set it up, and 
'Simple Scan'


Not sure what to tell you other than it is definitely possible, and is 
extraordinarily easy when you use HP.  I also did it previously with an 
HP printer connected via an ethernet cable to my router.


You might try looking in the cups configuration to see if your printer 
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Re: [lubuntu-users] Does a default Lubuntu dark theme exist?

[Israel]

+1
I look forward to LXQt being the default experience one day soon :)
On 08/30/2016 04:40 PM, Andre Campos Rodovalho wrote:

Qt migration is a huge job!
As a user, I would like to thank you guys for all effort...
Hope Lubuntu continue to evolve, and also the team to get bigger!



2016-08-30 16:06 GMT-03:00 Rafael Laguna 
mailto:rafaellag...@rafaellaguna.net>>:


Yes, Simon, the dark-ish theme is deprecated now for several reasons.
We tried shipping a dark panel theme with light windows and (inverted)
white icons. But there were some problems with it:

- the theme needed too many updates, and we don't have the resources
Ubuntu has for maintaining both themes

- after several GTK & app icons updates, some glyphs had to be
constantly re-written (specially the system tray ones) and we can't,
obviously, cover the entire app ecosystem (every theme out there lacks
some app icons)

- LXDE is constantly changing and evolving and that's a problem
for us,
the artwork people. See, for example, the language applet. At first we
used a single applet icon for it, then the flags appeared and we
needed
to make 164 new glyphs for every language and resolution (keep in mind
having to duplicate all of them in white colour), and then we changed
to Fcitex, all that work is useless now (again, more icons)

That's why Lubuntu theme (the only one) is the only pre-installed,
depending on Gnome icons (they keep those glyphs updated so we can
focus on apps) and same with GTK. Also, a distro usually uses just one
theme, that visually identifies the system, and it can't be the
perfect
match for every user. And that's where Linux tops over other OSes,
letting you to customise at any level.

Anyway, if you want to get back the semi-dark theme, you can grab the
GTK [1] and icon [2] themes (I released them to allow any user to
continue or fork them), or even download new ones from Gnome-Look [3].
Sorry if this isn't what you expected to hear, but we're doing a big
effort to keep the Lubuntu overall looking nice, specially now we're
porting everything to Qt, using a new syntax, new apps new
controls and
almost re-doing it from scratch.

Thanks for understanding.

[1] https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1013337

[2] https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1011980

[3] https://www.gnome-look.org/search?projectSearchText=lubuntu


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> Adding Rafael Laguna, our artwork guy.
>
> I would personally love a dark theme, but from what I remember, that
> is
> a thing of the past. Could you explain, Rafael?
>
> On 08/28/2016 05:07 PM, scrooya...@riseup.net
 wrote:
>
> > I'm playing a bit with the themes and icons and i can't really
find
> > a
> > nice dark theme. That also has themed the grey window borders.
> >
> > Lubuntu-dark-panel isn't exactly dark.
> >
> > I now have dark panel configured with the natura color theme and
> > that
> > has a nice feel to it though the grey is still keeping it very
> > bright.
> >
> > And if i manually change the colors how do i then save the
theme so
> > that
> > i can share my config?
> > I mean where should the theme be saved?  When i press the
"create a
> > theme archive .obt" button it wants me to select a directory where
> > to
> > store it, why doesn't is in point already to the directory? What
> > directory should that be?  Whatever location i choose, it does not
> > accept my choice.
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [lubuntu-users] Autostart exe in wine

[Israel]

On 08/28/2016 01:50 AM, Andrew Turner wrote:

Hello,
I am new to Lubuntu have read as much as I can about this but still 
have not mastered it. I understand very little.
Custom Desktop Logo is a little app that does not install as far as I 
can work out ,just runs from the exe when I want to use it.

I would like it to run on start up.
I include a couple of pics to show where it is and what it looks like 
when it is running.
Could someone give me the command for the terminal or tell me in 
simple language what I need to do please to get it to start when I 
boot so I can just click the little lemon icon when I need to use it.
I am a recent escapee from microsoft and find Lubuntu for me by far 
the best replacent for widows which when I have learned a little more 
I am looking forward to booting into touch.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can assist.




Hi Andrew,

http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXSession#Autostarted_applications_using_lxsession

This describes how to start things automatically in LXDE (Lubuntu)

It is much the same for all desktop environments.

You make a folder (if it doesn't exist already)

~/.config/autostart

where ~ is shorthand for your home directory (/home//username/ )

Then you save a desktop file in that directory.

Here are the really in depth details about those files.

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/

The program

lxshortcut

can make a simple desktop file pretty easily.

If you installed the program in wine, it should automatically create a 
desktop file for that program, which should be hidden in:


~/.local/share/applications/

if you find the wine desktop file for that program, just copy it to your 
~/.config/autostart


This will now 'just work'

If you have more questions please just ask!


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Re: [lubuntu-users] alternate beta1

[Israel]

On 08/25/2016 01:47 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:

Den 2016-08-25 kl. 20:40, skrev Israel:

On 08/25/2016 09:14 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:

Hi Simon,

I see that you are testing now.

I tested the i386 iso file, and failed to get wired internet 
(ethernet).


Hi everybody,

If you know a bit more about networking, please suggest which package
should be addressed in the bug report (if another package than
debian-installer). We would also be happy to get tips about a 
workaround.




Hi Nio,
A couple of things to do would be to check journalctl
journalctl -f
This will follow the most recent issues.. and most likely give you more
info about network-manager since it seems to fail.
journalctl -k
will give you a 'dmesg' kind of output about all the kernel stuff, which
might be helpful.

Another thing to try is
pkill nm-applet
nm-applet
And see if there are any errors.
Often there are a bunch of garbage errors in stripped down systems, or
gtk errors that don't mean much... but there could be something 
important.


Something else important could be the permissions of:
/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper

Other possible areas to check:
gnome policykit
consolekit
apparmor

Another major thing would be to check
/etc/network/interfaces
basically ALL that should be there is:
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

you only want the loopback interface handled this way... nothing like
wlpNsN
enpNsN
where N is a number.
This is the new systemd naming scheme for the old
ethN
wlanN
devices.

running:
ifconfig
should show you some possibly useful info as well.

There are quite a few possibilities for what *could* be wrong with this.

Also, making sure network-manager-gnome is installed with all the
recommends might help

These are the first initial things that come to mind, that I have dealt
with in other pursuits :)
I would troubleshoot this myself, but as you know there are other things
I currently need to attend to.



Thanks Israel,

There is a new Lubuntu Yakkety Alternate in the pipeline with some 
fixes in the debian installer. We'll see if it helps. Thanks again for 
the detailed list of tips where to look for network bugs :-)


Best regards
Nio


No problem Nio :D

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Re: [lubuntu-users] alternate beta1

[Israel]

On 08/25/2016 09:14 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:

Hi Simon,

I see that you are testing now.

I tested the i386 iso file, and failed to get wired internet (ethernet).

Hi everybody,

If you know a bit more about networking, please suggest which package 
should be addressed in the bug report (if another package than 
debian-installer). We would also be happy to get tips about a workaround.




Hi Nio,
A couple of things to do would be to check journalctl
journalctl -f
This will follow the most recent issues.. and most likely give you more 
info about network-manager since it seems to fail.

journalctl -k
will give you a 'dmesg' kind of output about all the kernel stuff, which 
might be helpful.


Another thing to try is
pkill nm-applet
nm-applet
And see if there are any errors.
Often there are a bunch of garbage errors in stripped down systems, or 
gtk errors that don't mean much... but there could be something important.


Something else important could be the permissions of:
/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper

Other possible areas to check:
gnome policykit
consolekit
apparmor

Another major thing would be to check
/etc/network/interfaces
basically ALL that should be there is:
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

you only want the loopback interface handled this way... nothing like
wlpNsN
enpNsN
where N is a number.
This is the new systemd naming scheme for the old
ethN
wlanN
devices.

running:
ifconfig
should show you some possibly useful info as well.

There are quite a few possibilities for what *could* be wrong with this.

Also, making sure network-manager-gnome is installed with all the 
recommends might help


These are the first initial things that come to mind, that I have dealt 
with in other pursuits :)
I would troubleshoot this myself, but as you know there are other things 
I currently need to attend to.


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Re: [lubuntu-users] .icc colour profiles

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On 08/23/2016 05:17 PM, scrooya...@riseup.net wrote:

I have a few questions about colour profiles.

Does Lubuntu make use of colour profiles?
If yes,
Where are they stored?
How do I change them?

I have a system that doesn't seem to have a correct gamma setting, but 
I can't figure out how to adjust this.


These instructions don't seem to get me any further
https://askubuntu.com/questions/199661/how-do-you-set-system-display-color-profiles-in-xubuntu-and-lubuntu 



I installed al that stuff, but this still doesn't seem to change 
anything.


It's stuff like this why i don't like laptops, there is never a easy 
way to do display corrections. On an external monitor it is easy to 
tweak a few things just to make things a bit more easy on the eyes on 
a crappy display. But on a laptop people are stuck with the setting 
that is there by default... And with some displays the default gamma 
setting is far from ideal.  It would be nice to have a simple tool to 
change settings or load different profiles.
Something like on a external monitor. (that does not affect the system 
colours)


It would be cool to do a real calibration, but a straightforward 
manual option would be good enough for most people. Then you at least 
have some control to safe your eyes, or reduce a headache.







A simple option is to use xgamma for red blue green only.

change the red to 70%

 xgamma -rgamma .7

change the blue to 100%

 xgamma -bgamma 1

change the green to 20%

 xgamma -ggamma .2

It lives in the:

x11-xserver-utils

package.


So you most likely have it installed already.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Shouldn't the thumbnail function be switched OFF by default

[Israel]

You can simply delete the thumbnailer file in /usr/share/thumbnails/
Of course it would be nice to have this option, even something like an 
option to clear thumbnail cache.

But you can simply enter the preferences dialog of pcmanfm to turn them off.

Edit->Preferences->Display->Show thumbnails of files (uncheck to disable)

You can also limit the size of files to thumbnail, and even choose to 
thumbnail remote folders if you really like thumbnails.


I think most people expect there to be thumbnails.  It makes certain 
tasks much easier, like looking through pictures, or movies.


If you don't like it turn it off  :D


On 08/23/2016 06:00 PM, scrooya...@riseup.net wrote:
I'm going to suggest to the pcman devs to include the option in the 
preferences...


If i can find where they live...

On 2016-08-24 00:09, Israel wrote:

Hi,
There are a few REALLY simple ways to circumvent this.

1) use imagemagick, because it can thumbnail everything... really
pdf, images, movies Here is one for movies



save it as /usr/share/thumbnailers/imagemagick-video.thumbnailer
 voila, fast, and easy

2) delete the totem-video-thumbnailer file from the same directory

no more pesky thumbnails.


bloody hell, that .thumbnail folder was HUGE already and i installed 
this pc only a few weeks ago! Even PDF's, screenshots, this can't be 
good for the performance in the long run when you open up a folder and 
then it has to dig trough all the tumbnails in 1 folder and match 
those with the actual files  That's a big waste of time and energy...


If other people would use this PC i could even consider this to be a 
privacy issue I really don't want to know what kind of video's 
other people have played


And still i can see how other people may really like this feature.
As eyecany, or to spy on their family. :-s  So teens be aware, daddy 
can find your hidden thumbnails!!! :-)






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Re: [lubuntu-users] Shouldn't the thumbnail function be switched OFF by default

[Israel]

Hi,
There are a few REALLY simple ways to circumvent this.

1) use imagemagick, because it can thumbnail everything... really 
pdf, images, movies Here is one for movies


[Thumbnailer Entry]
TryExec=convert
Exec=convert %i[0] -thumbnail %s %o
MimeType=application/mxf;application/ogg;application/ram;application/sdp;application/vnd.apple.mpegurl;application/vnd.ms-asf;application/vnd.ms-wpl;application/vnd.rn-realmedia;application/x-extension-m4a;application/x-extension-mp4;application/x-flash-video;application/x-matroska;application/x-netshow-channel;application/x-ogg;application/x-quicktimeplayer;application/x-shorten;image/vnd.rn-realpix;image/x-pict;misc/ultravox;text/x-google-video-pointer;video/3gp;video/3gpp;video/dv;video/divx;video/fli;video/flv;video/mp2t;video/mp4;video/mp4v-es;video/mpeg;video/msvideo;video/ogg;video/quicktime;video/vivo;video/vnd.divx;video/vnd.mpegurl;video/vnd.rn-realvideo;video/vnd.vivo;video/webm;video/x-anim;video/x-avi;video/x-flc;video/x-fli;video/x-flic;video/x-flv;video/x-m4v;video/x-matroska;video/x-mpeg;video/x-mpeg2;video/x-ms-asf;video/x-ms-asx;video/x-msvideo;video/x-ms-wm;video/x-ms-wmv;video/x-ms-wmx;video/x-ms-wvx;video/x-nsv;video/x-ogm+ogg;video/x-theora+ogg;video/x-totem-stream;audio/x-pn-realaudio;audio/3gpp;audio/ac3;audio/AMR;audio/AMR-WB;audio/basic;audio/flac;audio/midi;audio/mp2;audio/mp4;audio/mpeg;audio/ogg;audio/prs.sid;audio/vnd.rn-realaudio;audio/x-aiff;audio/x-ape;audio/x-flac;audio/x-gsm;audio/x-it;audio/x-m4a;audio/x-matroska;audio/x-mod;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-mpeg;audio/x-ms-asf;audio/x-ms-asx;audio/x-ms-wax;audio/x-ms-wma;audio/x-musepack;audio/x-pn-aiff;audio/x-pn-au;audio/x-pn-wav;audio/x-pn-windows-acm;audio/x-realaudio;audio/x-real-audio;audio/x-s3m;audio/x-sbc;audio/x-speex;audio/x-stm;audio/x-tta;audio/x-wav;audio/x-wavpack;audio/x-vorbis;audio/x-vorbis+ogg;audio/x-xm;application/x-flac;

save it as /usr/share/thumbnailers/imagemagick-video.thumbnailer
 voila, fast, and easy

2) delete the totem-video-thumbnailer file from the same directory

no more pesky thumbnails.

Of course, you need (from a terminal... you can use these commands)
pkill pcmanfm
and then rerun
pcmanfm --desktop &disown

thumbnails are stored in
~/.thumbnails/{normal,large}
which (if it is unclear) means
~/.thumbnails/normal/
~/.thumbnails/large/

Hope this helps.


On 08/23/2016 04:21 PM, Mark F wrote:
Would it be possible for Lubuntu to have 2-3 default configurations 
users could choose from during install (or, initial boot)?


I like Lubuntu on a relatively robust laptop just because I don't need 
a lot of eye candy. But, I always find myself wishing it was a little 
more visually attractive. (I'm looking at Xubuntu right now. But, 
something about X doesn't grab me. Lubuntu always strikes me as a 
little more familiar to a Windows user.).


Anyway, to me I (personally) wouldn't want to see Lubuntu default to 
less visual effects. I'd like more, actually. But, I agree that it's 
targeted to low-resource machines and it would make more sense to do 
what you ask.


On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 1:40 PM, > wrote:


Hi everyone,

I just discovered that pcmanfm makes thumbnails of every little
video snippet, and in my case it appears to consume a lot of power
on a laptop with an i3 CPU when i opened a folder with video clips
that i have made for a tutorial.
It worked and worked, and don't even need thumbnails there...

Now, in a way it sometimes can be cute to have thumbnails, but in
comparison of the resources it consumes to make the thumbnails it
didn't seem to make sense to have this in an environment that is
configured as 'light'.

Also I wonder where those thumbnails are stored and how this is
going to affect this laptop's performance in the log run.

In short: In my opinion it would make sense to have this feature
turned off by default.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] cups not built-in ?

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Hi,

On 08/11/2016 12:49 PM, Narcis Garcia wrote:

I believe that the problem is on software selection to build
live/install media, and not on any software package.
If live/install media hasn't CUPS, seems to be caused by a discard decision.

What I don't understand is, if this decision is for CD space reasons,
why Lubuntu ISOs are still over 700MB.

systemd takes up a LOT more room.
This has been my experience with making a tiny OS to fit within the ISO 
size limit.


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Re: [lubuntu-users] lubuntu 16.04.1 Live CD

[Israel]

Hi again, please provide:
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
Also, please try this on your actual hardware to see if the bug is 
reproducable.
You might also try the initial Lubuntu Xenial release to see if the bug 
is present there.

http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/16.04/release/
This will help narrow down the issue, and when it was introduced

On 08/09/2016 07:43 PM, Neill Rutherford gmail.com wrote:



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Re: [lubuntu-users] lubuntu 16.04.1 Live CD

[Israel]

Ok, so to troubleshoot Xorg
look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and look for errors.
If you need help please use pastebin and send the link so we can examine it.

This is the first step to find out what is wrong with your graphics.
It *could* be a driver issue, or something else is wrong.

Thanks


On 08/09/2016 11:16 AM, Neill Rutherford gmail.com wrote:


yes I do realise that upper case is shouting and i used upper case to 
get my point across


what is out there now is just plain bad.


I wish people would concentrate on the problem and get someone to fix it


PLEASE



On 09/08/16 10:35, Ian Bruntlett wrote:

Hi Neill,

On 8 August 2016 at 23:01, Neill Rutherford gmail 
mailto:neill.rutherf...@gmail.com>> wrote:


I'll try to get my point over ONE MORE TIME My computers work
unless i try to run lubuntu 16.04.1 LIve CD.

Xubuntu 16.04 works Lubuntu 14.04 works. Please concentrate on
ONLY the Lubuntu live CD 16.04.1

Do you realise that typing messages in UPPER CASE are akin to 
shouting and therefore poor etiquette?


Can I get my point over, one more time? Any live CD needs more 
resources to run from CD/DVD than it does to run from hard drive. 
Your problem may simply be that your computer doesn't have enough 
resources to run a Lubuntu live CD/DVD. OTOH, there are various isos 
for Lubuntu - there is "alternate" which is used only for installs, 
never as a live CD/DVD - are you trying to use "alternate"? If so, 
please try using the "desktop" iso as that is intended to act as a 
live CD/DVD, if required.


I thank you but it sounds like there will not be a corrected LIVE
CD produced for some time,  may be never

OK

THIS IS A BAD ADVERT FOR LUBUNTU

I doubt it.

BW,


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Re: [lubuntu-users] lubuntu 16.04.1 Live CD

[Israel]

Hi,
So, as I understand it you are saying that all the other _Ubuntu 16.04 
flavors work just fine_, but _Lubuntu does not_.


In my experience VirtualBox is not a very good judge of whether 
something 'works' or not, but that aside this is indeed a real problem.


I do not think your point got through very well on this list because of 
the way you stated it.

"THIS IS A BAD ADVERT FOR LUBUNTU"
Sounds hostile in an e-mail, when you may really have meant it to be 
something that was meant to be more like an alarm.


This is important to focus on and fix!

Feel free to dive in and help!
Thanks for testing this, could you test the LiveCD on real hardware as 
well, to see if it effects the actual computer, or if it is a VirtualBox 
glitch, this will help people to determine the root of your issue more 
clearly.  It does seem to be an Xorg issue


Thanks again for your input,
 but do try to explain your issue a bit differently next time so people 
will not feel that you are 'trolling' or 'attacking' them when you are, 
in reality, *VERY* concerned for the initial user experience.



On 08/08/2016 05:01 PM, Neill Rutherford gmail wrote:


I'll try to get my point over ONE MORE TIME My computers work unless i 
try to run lubuntu 16.04.1 LIve CD.


Xubuntu 16.04 works Lubuntu 14.04 works. Please concentrate on ONLY 
the Lubuntu live CD 16.04.1



I thank you but it sounds like there will not be a corrected LIVE CD 
produced for some time,  may be never



THIS IS A BAD ADVERT FOR LUBUNTU



On 08/08/16 12:51, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
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Re: [lubuntu-users] using live cd to flash a bios

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Hi,
My experience with upgrading BIOS from GNU/Linux is NO.
FreeDOS can sometimes run the executable and work well.
Usually what I do before installing GNU/Linux is to upgrade the BIOS.
So if you have a Windows CD install windows, upgrade BIOS, and then 
install GNU/Linux.


Someone else may have some experience doing it, but the last BIOS update 
I did was quite some time ago.


p.s. thanks I am glad you like ToriOS, me too!

On 08/03/2016 06:18 AM, scrooya...@riseup.net wrote:

Has anyone used a livecd to flash a bios?

If yes what application did you use?

And what about including that application on a livecd or OBI DE?

I have a Aspire One that doesn't boot from SD, it is an older BIOS, 
and i hope the latest BIOS saves the day. But having a tool to 
actually flash the binary to the chip would be very handy to have on a 
livecd.


I made an SD with ToriOS and when i put it in a USB card reader then 
i'm able to boot from it (BTW ToriOS is nice!)
So i really hope the latest BIOS supports booting from SD, that would 
save one more pocket calculator from the scrapheap.


Anyhow...
Does anyone have experience with upgrading BIOS from within GNU/Linux?







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Re: [lubuntu-users] Is it possible to 'multi boot' ISO's with MKUSB?

[Israel]

Hi,
One other thing to add...
You can boot from an ISO file via Grub
It has been a while since I have done this, so some things may have 
changed... and NOT ALL DISTROS use casper as the root directory for the 
initrid/vmlinuz files, so look in the ISO for the file you need... for 
example Fedora is quite different

Some also need very specific boot parameters (like Arch)
So consult the ISO if you are using something besides *buntu, this is 
specifically targeted at *buntu use.

## this will be different on your computer, use the TAB completion
## some are something like (msdos1,1)
*set root=(*hd1,1*) *
## use tab completion here as well if you need
*set isofile=*"/path/to/FILENAME.iso"
## same as the root you set
*loopback loop*(hd1,1)*$isofile*
## the main thing is to include the path to the vmlinuz, and set the 
boot= that directory name... you might also need vmlinuz.efi if you are 
doing an efi boot

*linux (loop)/*casper/vmlinuz *boot=*casper
## some distros use different compression... so just check
*initrd (loop)/*casper/*initrd*.lz
*boot
*You**can also add a custom grub entry menu.

This could be done from a USB stick, technically, where you keep a bunch 
of ISO files, and make custom GRUB entries and boot each on separately


Again, I have not done this in a few years, (I have been using mkusb to 
overwwrite the same USB stick, like Nio) so things may have changed some.


**On 07/30/2016 04:47 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:

Hi scrooyahoo,

[replying inline]

Best regards
Nio

Den 2016-07-30 kl. 22:58, skrev scrooya...@riseup.net:

I'm looking into MKUSB and OBI.

I see OBI can pick tar-balls stored on a stick. But is it also possible
to work with multiple ISO's?


The OBI does not work with iso files. But there are other tools, that 
can make multiboot USB drives, for example according to this link:


'One pendrive for all PC (Intel/AMD) computers - single-boot dual-boot 
multi-boot'


https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2259682

It works for Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distros, but you have to fix the 
menuentries in grub.cfg for the other linux distros.


There are also multiboot-usb, multisystem and YUMI


Would be nice to have 1 stick that can load:
32 bit
64 bit
pae
and eventually also the PPC


It is possible except PPC, because it has a different architecture, 
and needs different machine code.



And also to make a stick with all 32 or 64 bit *buntu's side by side.


You can make such a pendrive according to the link above or get one.

Some people like that, but I think it is better to consider pendrives 
as temporary devices.


I store iso files in my main computer's 'data' partition, and flash 
one of them to a pendrive, when I want to use it. If you want to bring 
many iso files in the pocket, you can have a second pendrive with iso 
files. It is a good idea to have fast USB 3 pendrives. They are faster 
in USB 2 ports too, because the flash memory hardware is often 
limiting the data transfer speed. See this link:


https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick#Prerequisites

I use mkusb (to wrap a safety belt around dd alias 'disk destroyer'), 
most of the time making simple live-only pendrives that are cloned 
from the iso files. Most iso files today are 'hybrid' iso files, which 
means that they work when cloned, so it is a very simple process.


It is a lot of work to keep a multiboot pendrive up to date, it can 
easily lag behind. It is somewhat complicated to keep the boot script 
(grub.cfg or a corresponding file for other bootloaders) up to date 
and working if you have several different distros.


There is also Ubuntu AIO at

http://linuxaio.net/


Specially now that 8GB is about the smallest stick size thats still
available in stores.

This would it make it less of a hassle to try a few distros.

I now have 4 Sticks in use for Lubuntu 16.04 64, 32, and alternate 64
and 32bit
that puts about 28GB doing nothing.

I have tried 2 multiboot options i could find but for some reason only
one of those partially works.

OBI looks like a good solution, but most distro's sit in a ISO.


Please try and find out which way you want to manage your iso files 
and boot drives :-)





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Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS has been released! (installing Lubuntu on an IDE HDD, attached though a USB adapter, presentation mode enabled to prevend Lubuntu to mounth the drive on wakeup)

[Israel]

You can disable the screen blanking with
xset s off -dpms

Feel free to add that to the autostart of any installed system you want 
to disable this default 'feature'.  This was important back in the CRT 
monitor days, but is less needed in the current LCD monitor days.

Laptops do not have CRT monitors, of course

You can also install xscreensaver and run
xscreensaver -no-splash
you can run
xscreensaver-demo
to disable the screen saver altogether through the GUI (which is the 
easiest way to configure it)



On 07/29/2016 04:41 PM, scrooya...@riseup.net wrote:

Might it be possible to
turn ON, presentation mode, when the installer runs?

When installing  Lubuntu to a USB connected HDD (using the normal 
installer) then the sleepmode or screensaver mode, seems to try to 
mount the usb drive on wakup.  This apperently disrupts the installer 
errors popup and stuff crashes.


I now manually put the machine in presentation mode.  And so far so 
good...


Maybe there is a better way?


BTW, i discovered why the floppy did not work, there was a complete 
bunny hiding on the inside... So i will give that option also another 
try.







On 2016-07-29 16:13, Israel wrote:

Hey,
There are a couple of ways to do this.
1.) install on the harddrive by putting it in another machine.
2.) Boot via ethernet (if possible) and install that way
3.) use mkusb (or dd if you are more confident that I am at always
remembering if/of) to write an ISO to a harddrive.  Install this
harddrive in the CD/DVD slot (if possible)

And of course Nio's suggestion is very good if you can find a floppy 
disk :D

The last one I had around perished a few years ago.  Maybe a second
hand shop has a box of them hiding somewhere?

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS has been released! (Installing now on Acer Aspire 1 ZG5)

[Israel]

Hey,
There are a couple of ways to do this.
1.) install on the harddrive by putting it in another machine.
2.) Boot via ethernet (if possible) and install that way
3.) use mkusb (or dd if you are more confident that I am at always 
remembering if/of) to write an ISO to a harddrive.  Install this 
harddrive in the CD/DVD slot (if possible)


And of course Nio's suggestion is very good if you can find a floppy disk :D
The last one I had around perished a few years ago.  Maybe a second hand 
shop has a box of them hiding somewhere?


On 07/28/2016 03:59 AM, scrooya...@riseup.net wrote:

:-)

Runs like a dream already!

using about 117MB of RAM so thats plenty of spare brains.
and all the config preferences dialogs even fit on the screen! in 
12.04 the OK / cancel buttons often fell out of sight.


GREAT STUFF!!!

Ideal foldable PC to play with.  New to Lubuntu?  Get yourself an 
Aspire 1 ZG5.


I also have a Pentuim M bases box that doens't boot from USB, has a 
defective CD/DVD, so that also is no option, Not sure if the floppy 
still boots...


This could be a challenge to buntify?


Woops, just discovered the first bug.   after sleeping the cursor is 
'hidden behind the desktop'


Alt+F1, Alt+F7 brings it back though.  It's a shame that this bug 
isn't fixed yet...












Hi Uncle Scrooge :-)

I agree. For example at

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu-flavours

the link should point to the correct Lubuntu web page. We have asked
Ubuntu (Canonical) to change it, but it has not happened yet. It is
very difficult to get links outside our control to be changed, but let
us keep trying.

I'm happy to read that Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS works well for you.

Best regards
Nio






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Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu Bug Day Ubuntu On Air Session at 19:00 UTC

[Israel]

Hi,
I think I will try to make both sides here more clear.

scrooyahoo:
I want my privacy and digital freedom.
I also want to use the best distro ever.
I do not want to give more control to the people who are taking it 
without our permission.


others:
if you do not like losing some of these liberties you are free to use 
another os, even if this one is the best.

there is nothing we can do to fix this issue, because it is not our fault.
in fact this issue is not even Ubuntu's fault, it is freenode that does 
not allow you to use it.


bottom line:
freedom is very important.  we cannot let it erode, as history has shown 
us time and time again the horrid consequences of letting the government 
rule the people heavily and mass surveillance.
we cannot blame people making a great operating system for things that 
they simply do not have control over (other companies, other websites or 
domains like freenode).
The entire GNU/Linux community is doing a good job at protecting 
privacy, and freedom.  Some insist on only the purest libre experience.


Lubuntu's user group is the best, and Lubuntu is one of the best distros 
for low-end machines.  There are a few others that are really great, but 
Lubuntu has the best community and this makes Lubuntu stand above the rest.



On 07/27/2016 02:50 AM, Narcis Garcia wrote:

I understand scrooyahoo's arguments and agree with the reasons, but is
being very rude when judging others' choices.

I insist to scrooyahoo: there are other distros & communities apart of
Ubuntus/Canonicals and, most of people who disagrees with
*buntu/Canonical policies, migrate to that other GNU/Linux distributions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DistroWatch



El 26/07/16 a les 23:05, scrooya...@riseup.net ha escrit:

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Re: [lubuntu-users] [solved] an issue while running live image on Dell Latitude D510

[Israel]

Hi,
Thanks for reporting this, I had a similar issue with the 16.04 ISO I 
wil give the 16.04.1 a try again.  I was just testing and installing a 
few OS on the machine, so I did not bother with it then, but I will try 
it again on the same one!


On 07/27/2016 10:03 AM, rpr // wrote:

Hi everyone!

If I start Lubuntu 16.04 32-bit live image (lubuntu-16.04-desktop-i386.iso)
on a Dell Latitude D510 with Intel Pentium M 1.86 GHz and 1280 MiB of RAM
and click "Try Lubuntu" I get a blank screen with a cursor blinking in
top left corner. After some time the following error is displayed:

[drm:intel_cpu_fifo_underrun_irq_handler [i915]] *ERROR* CPU pipe A
FIFO underrun

which is mentioned at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95461

But if I boot the same laptop with newer lubuntu-16.04.1-desktop-i386.iso
that error does not occur and Lubuntu desktop environment starts fine.

lspci reports
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML
Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)

Also, it the later case the installation was OK and Lubuntu runs fine.
So, this is just FYI.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu Bug Day Ubuntu On Air Session at 19:00 UTC

[Israel]

On 07/26/2016 04:35 PM, Brendan Perrine wrote:

On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 21:51:37 +0200
Liam Proven  wrote:


On 26 July 2016 at 17:50,   wrote:

..


..

The ubuntu one single sign on is used for many different things like say what 
teams you are a part of on launchpad which uses the bug tracker and who wrote 
this comment. I don't see an intuitive way to do this with anominity.  Also 
even  the free software foundation has a channel on freenode. I don't really 
like the idea of captchas on ubuntu one webpage I certainly don't remember them 
but we have had an attack of many people signing up for the single sign on and 
spamming the wiki with all sorts of advertisements which results in either 
locking it down or a not very useful wiki.



Hi,

UbuntuOne is also needed to upload code to Launchpad and create a PPA.

It is required to edit a Wiki

I think in most cases UbuntuOne is a good measure of security for users, 
and it also provides more anonymity in certain cases, such as being able 
to upload information to a private bug.


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Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu Bug Day Ubuntu On Air Session at 19:00 UTC

[Israel]

Hi,
In my experience if you want to know what your computer is doing, and 
every single thing is hand picked to provide the best 
security/privacy/etc...
Use Arch.  It is pretty easy to install (if you like terminals) and is 
really configurable  The FSF advocates Trisequel GNU/Linux so that 
might be another option for a preconfigured privacy respecting distro.  
There is no proprietary firmware so things may not work ccorrectly on 
some hardware.


If you do not want to use a terminal, there is not much you can do to 
ensure much of anything, though..
IF you want to go ALL out, you can use LFS... but that is a bit overkill 
unless uyou really are just looking to learn more about GNU/Linux


On 07/26/2016 04:02 AM, Narcis Garcia wrote:

scrooyahoo or whoever are you;
You are exaggerating with subject about jews and World War II.

*buntu OS distros are GNU/Linux flavours created with Canonical
policies, a company (not community) with *some* policies focused on FOSS
and community relationship.

This is not a community-driven OS distribution, but there is enough
flexibility to be a decent GNU/Linux distro.
People who focuses all efforts to personal+community freedom and privacy
choose other distributions, and in that other collectives you will find
more people nearer to your minding.



El 26/07/16 a les 09:52, scrooya...@riseup.net ha escrit:

:-) what is the address, i'll send a handwritten message (i do not
*need* to use the internet?)

I do understand, that it's not really in canonicals hands, but it really
pisses me off that every tiny attempt i do to get a little bit of
privacy is undermined by whole automated systems that keep kicking me
around until they still have my details...

It's just BRUTAL, and Canonical / *buntu / freenode should not look away
from this shit.

Before WWII the people in germany looked away / did nothing / followed
orders, and we all know how that played out right?

So i'm not going to igore this and sat *Sorry*  not my depertment.

I'm HUMAN and privacy IS my department, Without privacy I cannot be
"UBUNTU"

Afterall Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’.

So if this is not the case then Canonical should not use the word.

And it sucks that I feel the need to defend myself here. (of all places)

Has it really come THIS FAR?

It's just SAD First the yahoo/gmail spam issue and now this.

What's next? will the US govrnment force me to wear a badge that says
PRIVACY EXTREMIST? O wait reCAPTCHA IS that badge!

Yahoo tags me, Google tags me, CAPCHA tags me, Paypal, Ebay, Amazon and
they ALL SHARE the tags trough DMARC.ORG.

Lets see how long it takes until Ubuntu One will join the DMARC cartel.


PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS

PLEASE.  this is going WAY to far.


I'm not willing to fight this fight, and especially not here. But i cant
keep my mouth shut. Everywhere i go.
CAPTCHA CATCHA CAPTCHA discrimination
Spam discrimination
ETC.

I now start to understand how Jews must have felt 75 years ago.

I'm pissed.

Nothing personal against you Simon, just large scale corporate sadness.













On 2016-07-26 09:04, Simon Quigley wrote:

That's where Lubuntu hosts it's IRC channels and we don't plan on
changing that any time soon. Sorry.

If you want to avoid it, just send emails to the mailing list with
your results. You don't *need* to use IRC. :)

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Fujitsu Lifebook S761 (scroll wheel-pad issue)

[Israel]

Hey,
I sent that app off list, but I agree I wish Lubuntu had a better app 
for touchpad (and Keyboard as well) but Lubuntu is moving to Qt so 
introducing an FLTK app is probably not going to happen :)


Can you post your synclient output, I am wondering if you can 
recalibrate the edge to encompass the small circular portion, perhaps 
the synclient output will give me an idea what you are experiencing


On 07/26/2016 01:24 AM, scrooya...@riseup.net wrote:

thanks for all this

the application installed an i can run just fine

however the scroll pad function does not work i can toggle it on and 
off in the app but wherever i try scrolling does not happen, firefocx, 
pluma, other apps that show scrollbars, nothing reacts so the driver 
itseld seems to be a bit funky.


but this config application would make a nice to the mouse config gui!

now going to have a look what hug-day is all about...


On 2016-07-26 01:07, Israel wrote:

Hey,
Yeah you do need g++ installed, I forgot as I have all kinds of
development stuff installed.
I tried it (this time) and it worked.  hopefully you have all the
dependencies installed now...
But it worked, I ran it, and the script installed things in the
correct place, etc...
Launching it from the menu also worked.
You will probably need to restart the lxpanel, or simply logout and
log back in if it doesn't show up right away.
You didn't make a mess, I just didn't check the script enough I
suppose... sorry about that, but this one does work (on my machine).

I added a bunch of dependencies, (some might already be installed on
your system) they are libraries that FLTK needs.  I hope it all works
well, let me know :)







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Re: [lubuntu-users] Fujitsu Lifebook S761 (scroll wheel-pad issue)

[Israel]

Hi,
It is really pretty easy to be honest.
if you want to test a parameter just run
synclient [PARAMETER]

I have a little GUI program for doing it, and I will send it your way.

On 07/23/2016 05:09 PM, scrooya...@riseup.net wrote:

@Israel,

xinput list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" | grep Capabilities
Synaptics Capabilities (320):1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

xinput list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
https://paste.ubuntu.com/20652740/

So.. can i temporary set up a new user 'testuser' and do some tests 
there without affecting my main user config

how do i make sure that my tests only affect the testuser account?

is it just a matter of putting that config in the /home of that user 
and make my changes there??


:-) synclient shows me that i'm getting closer.


synclient -l
Parameter settings:
LeftEdge= 1759
RightEdge   = 5287
TopEdge = 1640
BottomEdge  = 4494
FingerLow   = 25
FingerHigh  = 30
MaxTapTime  = 180
MaxTapMove  = 232
MaxDoubleTapTime= 100
SingleTapTimeout= 180
ClickTime   = 100
EmulateMidButtonTime= 75
EmulateTwoFingerMinZ= 282
EmulateTwoFingerMinW= 7
VertScrollDelta = 105
HorizScrollDelta= 105
VertEdgeScroll  = 1
HorizEdgeScroll = 0
CornerCoasting  = 0
VertTwoFingerScroll = 1
HorizTwoFingerScroll= 0
MinSpeed= 1
MaxSpeed= 1.75
AccelFactor = 0.0379147
UpDownScrolling = 1
LeftRightScrolling  = 1
UpDownScrollRepeat  = 1
LeftRightScrollRepeat   = 1
ScrollButtonRepeat  = 100
TouchpadOff = 0
LockedDrags = 0
LockedDragTimeout   = 5000
RTCornerButton  = 2
RBCornerButton  = 3
LTCornerButton  = 0
LBCornerButton  = 0
TapButton1  = 1
TapButton2  = 3
TapButton3  = 0
ClickFinger1= 1
ClickFinger2= 1
ClickFinger3= 0
CircularScrolling   = 0
CircScrollDelta = 0.1
CircScrollTrigger   = 0
CircularPad = 0
PalmDetect  = 0
PalmMinWidth= 10
PalmMinZ= 200
CoastingSpeed   = 20
CoastingFriction= 50
PressureMotionMinZ  = 30
PressureMotionMaxZ  = 160
PressureMotionMinFactor = 1
PressureMotionMaxFactor = 1
ResolutionDetect= 1
GrabEventDevice = 0
TapAndDragGesture   = 1
AreaLeftEdge= 0
AreaRightEdge   = 0
AreaTopEdge = 0
AreaBottomEdge  = 0
HorizHysteresis = 26
VertHysteresis  = 26
ClickPad= 0


looks like i need to find the correct config for these settings.

CircularScrolling   = 0
CircScrollDelta = 0.1
CircScrollTrigger   = 0
CircularPad = 0


Scrolling could also be nice as 'scrub-wheel' for audio sequensers, 
and video editors

CircularPad could be interesting for panning over an image in gimp

Can't beleive that nobody has explored this any deeper yet.

Thanks a bunch, i'm still a bit nervous about screwing this up.

i'll play with this tomorrow, and hope the CPU doesn't cook my leg.

For now i just like to see this scrollpad working, and would be cool 
if this would be working for ever Ubuntu user with this type of 
laptop. (All Lifebook S series)


I'll read this post again tomorrow, my brain is a bit fried at the 
moment. It looks like this should be simple but this evening the penny 
doesn't seem to drop. It could be a sunstitch...






On 2016-07-23 02:35, Israel wrote:

Ok, this will show (numerically) your touchpad capabilities
(feel free to run it without grep to get the whole shebang, which
would be good to post to the list)
xinput list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" | grep Capabilities

Ok, so here is the synclient tutorial
LIST the things synclient can configure
synclient -l

It might be a greaat idea to run
synclient -l > $HOME/initial-touchpad-setup

this way you have a backup and a base to test from and go back to.

you can then setup your device by settings those values individually...
Feel free to save your preferences as a script and start it
automatically when you log into your user
for example:
#/bin/bash
synclient MaxTapTime=180 MaxTapMove=221 MaxDoubleTapTime=180
SingleTapTimeout=180 ClickTime=100 EmulateMidButtonTime=75
EmulateTwoFingerMinZ=282 EmulateTwoFingerMinW=7 VertScrollDelta=100
HorizScrollDelta=100 VertEdgeScroll=1 HorizEdgeScroll=0
CornerCoasting=0 VertTwoFingerScroll=0 HorizTwoFingerScroll=0
TouchpadOff=0 LockedDrags=0 Lo

Re: [lubuntu-users] menueditor

[Israel]

On 07/21/2016 05:36 PM, scrooya...@riseup.net wrote:
I just installed menulibre, and this appears to have the same 
gnome-theme issue as gedit


what is the default menu editor for lubuntu (if any)  Alacarte?

any recommendations?


leafpad/nano/vi?
hehehehe
Not sure, GNOME keeps breaking things...
But you can honestly edit your menus by hand, though you need to consult 
the very verbose documentation:

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/
specifically
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/ar01s04.html
will give you the intro to how it works.

That said, you will be editing the /etc/xdg/menus/lxde-applications.menu

To remove a specific desktop file in a category, locate the category
add

gedit.desktop


replace gedit.desktop with the actual desktop file you want to exclude

Likewise to include, find the category and:



supertuxkart.desktop




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Re: [lubuntu-users] Fujitsu Lifebook S761 (scroll wheel-pad issue)

[Israel]

Ok, this will show (numerically) your touchpad capabilities
(feel free to run it without grep to get the whole shebang, which would 
be good to post to the list)

xinput list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" | grep Capabilities

Ok, so here is the synclient tutorial
LIST the things synclient can configure
synclient -l

It might be a greaat idea to run
synclient -l > $HOME/initial-touchpad-setup

this way you have a backup and a base to test from and go back to.

you can then setup your device by settings those values individually...
Feel free to save your preferences as a script and start it 
automatically when you log into your user

for example:
#/bin/bash
synclient MaxTapTime=180 MaxTapMove=221 MaxDoubleTapTime=180 
SingleTapTimeout=180 ClickTime=100 EmulateMidButtonTime=75 
EmulateTwoFingerMinZ=282 EmulateTwoFingerMinW=7 VertScrollDelta=100 
HorizScrollDelta=100 VertEdgeScroll=1 HorizEdgeScroll=0 CornerCoasting=0 
VertTwoFingerScroll=0 HorizTwoFingerScroll=0 TouchpadOff=0 LockedDrags=0 
LockedDragTimeout=5000 RTCornerButton=0 RBCornerButton=0 
LTCornerButton=0 LBCornerButton=0 TapButton1=0 TapButton2=0 TapButton3=0 
ClickFinger1=1 ClickFinger2=1 ClickFinger3=0 GrabEventDevice=1 
TapAndDragGesture=1 ClickPad=0


This is just one I use in a window manager (not Lubuntu), so you will 
need to modify it as your touchpad needs are most likely different.


This should most likely solve your scrolling issue.  But maybe we need 
to look more into what you need.


It is quite possible that this secondary device is actually the same 
thing (both pads connected to the same chip, and relayed to the mother 
board as one device)  You most likely just need to adjust the ranges so 
the secondary pad is within the specfied range.


I do have a FLTK program for configuring settings for this, but I will 
have to extract it from another program that it is part of IF you are 
REALLY interested in it.  It is from a program to configure JWM (a 
window manager) but controls virtually every synclient property, as I 
really like configurability.


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Re: [lubuntu-users] Firefox playing flash

[Israel]

Hi one quick correction below,

On 07/18/2016 01:45 AM, Eric Bradshaw wrote:



DRM-protected services (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon) will often need HAL; 
the Hardware Abstraction Layer.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mjblenner/ppa-hal -y
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install hal libhal1 -y


Netflix and Amazon (not sure about Hulu, I haven't tried it)
Use HTML5 now with DRM, the only thing that will work on a 32bit 
computer is the OLD (non secure) Google Chrome (please disable the built 
in PDF reader, as there is a HUGE security vulnerability that is 
extremely dangerous) really you should use 64bit Google Chrome, but this 
is Lubuntu and most of us use a 32bit computer.


I have tried using the widevine plugins in chromium to no avail in my 
testing.  I might try out Opera at some point just to try it, but it is 
another proprietary browser like Chrome.


On 64bit, you can simply take the widevine shared object library files 
and use them in other Webkit browsers (Vivaldi works from what I hear 
and I have used them in Chromium on Arch Linux successfully, possibly 
Opera will work as well)


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