Web Proxy tip for Linux Lite 3.2

If you're looking for a way to configure web proxy settings system-wide in Linux Lite 3.2, this guide may help you accomplish just that. dconf-tools/dconf-editor do not seem to work (or at least it didn't work for me in Linux Lite 3.2) and that's why I'm writing this post; hopefully it will help others.

What works: Environment variables

You will define some environment variables such as:
no_proxy
http_proxy
https_proxy

... in /etc/environment

Note: Some applications require the above mentioned variables all in upper case while others in lower case. Therefore we will define each variable using all 'UPPER CASE' as well as 'lower case'.


Depending on your needs, you can define different variables to connect to the desired proxy such as:

no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.0/8,*.local
NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.0/8,*.local
all_proxy=socks://proxy.domain.tld:port/
ALL_PROXY=socks://proxy.domain.tld:port/
http_proxy=http://proxy.domain.tld:port
HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy.domain.tld:port
ftp_proxy=http://proxy.domain.tld:port
FTP_PROXY=http://proxy.domain.tld:port 
https_proxy=http://proxy.domain.tld:port
HTTPS_PROXY=http://proxy.domain.tld:port


You can set the http_proxy variable with the hostname or IP address of the proxy server as well as its connection port:

http_proxy=http://proxy.domain.tld  (assumes port 80 by default)
http_proxy=http://proxy.domain.tld:8080 (connects to proxy.domain.tld on port 8080)
http_proxy=http://192.168.1.200:8080 (connects to 192.168.1.200 on port 8080)


If the proxy server you are connecting to requires a user name and password, include them as follow:

http_proxy=http://username:[email protected]
http_proxy=http://username:[email protected]:8080
http_proxy=http://username:[email protected]:8080

Similarly https_proxy is for https protocol.



Done with the basics, time to get it done   In this guide, we will be configuring some variables to connect to a http/https proxy without authentication. Use your favorite text editor to edit /etc/environment... vi, gedit, leafpad, you name it. Let's use leafpad in this guide for demonstrations purposes:

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Hey guys,

first of all I love Linux Lite! Thank you so much for this awesome OS! Before, I used Lubuntu on my crappy Netbook, but Linux Lite just feels so much faster!

Nevertheless I still have an annoying issue. I can't get Youtube to play Videos in an acceptable quality. 480p non-fullscreen is okay, but if I go higher or fullscreen it gets really laggy. I am using Chromium. I also tried firefox (was even worse) and seamonkey (between ff and chromium).

It seems that video performance isn't the problem in generall, because VLC plays vids in 1080p without any issue. Also on Win10 (reason I switched to Linux xD) there is no such yt problem.

My specs sadly are not really good =( but not that bad either

Acer Aspire One 722
AMD APU C-60 2x 1 GHz -> boost 1,33 GHz / Radeon HD 6290
4 GB RAM
256 GB SSD Crucial M4

I am using Linuix Lite 3.2 64bit, everything up to date. I am still new to Linux, so if you need further infos feel free to ask.

I've read the sticky about Youtube issues already, but correct me if i'm wrong, I thought that by now Youtube uses HTML5 only so Flash can't be the problem (especially with chromium)?

Hope you have some ideas! Thanks in advance!

Best regards,
ark23

PS: Hope you could understand everything, non-native speaker here

Hello all Linux lovers

Ralphy here, saying hi to the community. Let's see... a little bit of mia culpa... for whatever reasons I had never tried Linux Lite until recently, and I have to admit that I'm not that new to Linux. Not sure what kept me away but I never felt attracted so to speak.

I gotta tell you friends, what a beautiful and snappy OS Linux Lite is. Its simplicity and fundamentals is astonishing to me, taking into account that I had never considered it before. In my humble opinion, Linux Lite shines to a brilliant perfection. It is a lightweight and lighting fast operating system that doesn't get in the middle, gets the job done and packages outstanding friendliness for anyone, specially for new users; while featuring a “full-blown-features-rich” desktop at the same time. Great job, seriously!

As a way to say thank you for Linux Lite and show appreciation in a more tangible way, I've decided to host a repository mirror to give back to the community. The mirror hosts packages from 6 different servers geographically distributed, in an Anycast network, with IP failover and load balancing. These servers should give most users good response time irrespective their geographic location.



I truly hope they serve the community well.

Cheers!

I just got FF 50 and now the menu looks like this and I can't click on anything :/

The totals from the downloads page (https://www.linuxliteos.com/download.html) look incorrect.  I've been watching, and the last 3 digits of both the Web Downloads and Torrent Downloads figures seem to increase, but nothing above them does.  For example, the Total Torrent Download number has been at 170,xxx no matter what.  As of this writing, it is at 170,012.  Based on what I saw earlier today, it should be at 171,xxx.  The same goes for the Total Web Downloads number.  It is always at 1,219,xxx.  Currently it is at 1,219,187.  Based on where I saw it earlier today, it should be at 1,220,xxx. 

Now that I think of it, since these figures were added to the website, the most significant characters for the Web Downloads number have always been 1,219,xxx, and the most significant characters for the Torrent Downloads number have always been 170,xxx.  Something is very wrong with the tally.

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How do I restore default theme?

This might be a silly question, but I wonder if there is something similar to krunner that is available for xfce desktop? So what I need is a universal search tool that will find any file or program installed on my machine and for programs it will give me an option to launch it directly?
Thanks

hi.
i had installed tumbler.tumbler extra.ffmpeg thumbiler  and gnome exe tumbler.
but there is no thumbs for some files like mp3.m4a.exe...etc
image and pdf and video thumbs are ok.
also i deleted thumbs cache to recreate it.dosent help.