I'm going to spend some time between now and 3.4 to add to the Help Manual. If there is anything I have overlooked, please let me know in this thread.

- An example of a good suggestion - the recent "Lite Software - Change Repository Location" suggestion from another thread.
- An example of a bad suggestion - "Please include a tutorial for installing KDE"

Any suggestion must be relevant to what we already offer.

Thank you

I have installed linux lite 3.2 64 bit an I want to enable burn effect on window animations. But when I launch the ccsm I just don't see the animations plus neither the burn effect under animations...

I have these plugins installed on my system:

compiz-plugins               
compiz-plugins-default
compiz-plugins-extra               
compiz-plugins-main                 
compiz-plugins-main-default     

A great review by Quidsup (1 day old, 23.11.16 at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIgv0Q6NJPg

Well done yet again to all the team

Regards
Mike

I have been working on a lightning theme for my client boxes, mainly because I have a thing for lightning, and I want the boxes to all start out the same as we will be instructing how to make user preference changes as part of the series. Open to opinions, and currently working on a lightning animated plymouth splash, but this is all for now.









http://imgur.com/a/KU8px

TC

I was wondering if anyone has done the spadework to find out which browsers worked well or worked best (or conversely those to avoid which didn't work well)  in virtual machines, whether these VMs are based on  Microsoft Windows or Linux?

Thanks in advance for any feedback... 

Mike

I made a surprise observation today...

I found out that I could both read & write data files on an MSDOS-ext4 formatted data partition on my PC, using a Win7 VM, mounted as guest in an LL3.2 host.  "Surprised", because I didn't think ext4 was normally accessible from Windows OS, unless special software was employed. 

Is the above only seen when  Windows OS is installed as a VM?

It means I'll have to adjust the shared folder settings in Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager  to  'read only',  to avoid any potential security issues, e.g. the possibility that Microsoft updates might over-write parts of the PC's data files or OS files.

Recently, I had to abandon a Win7 / LL3.2 legacy dual-boot, because following a recent patching of Win7 with Microsoft security updates, the PC failed to boot. It even failed to detect the SSD drives on setup1 - they weren't even listed in the boot device list.


As a consequence of this,  I've now returned to a Linux-only setup (setup1 in sig): LL3.2 as the main workhorse OS, dual-booted with Linux Mint 18 (XFCE)  as a back-up, in case anything happened to LL. 

And of course Win7 (& any Windows OS in general) is now relegated to VM status, following the unfortunate experience that I've just described above...

Cheers
Mike

Hi guys,

I have a problem with Steam. I noticed a similar thread saying "Steam wont run" but it is already marked as solved and sadly didn't help in my case. I tried installing via Lite Software, download from valve and also by terminal. Only "terminal-version" did something and patched itself, but did not start. The other two did nothing at all. Uninstalled and deleted everything (also hidden files), made a clean install with Lite, tried to execute via terminal and got this message:

Hi guys,

is there a simple way to rename the LibreOffice icons to default in the menu? I'm used to LibreOffice so I would prefer "Writer" "Calc" etc. over  "New Document" ...
I tried to change this via the Main Menu application, changing name via properties, but this did not work.

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,
ark23

It would be good to document somewhere (maybe in the Help Manual) how to switch and use a different Linux Lite repository.

/litemanual/software.html#sources explains how to "Change your Software Updates Country Location" but that does not apply to the Linux Lite repository. It doesn't really help much if there are different mirrors for the Linux Lite repository but everyone keeps on using the default one. As Linux Lite user base grows, requests to master server will increase substantially over time. It is helpful for the master server and most importantly for end-users to use a LL mirror closer to them other than repo.linuxliteos.com.

I had to connect my Linux Lite desktop computer to the tv with hdmi, and apparently Linux Lite doesn't change sound output automatically. I was able to fix that, but now I want the sound to play from the speakers again, how do I do that?

In Volume Control, in the Configuration tab, there are about a million choices. How do I know which one is my set of speakers, that are currently plugged in?