Ok. I have no sound or playback from Amarok when I try to use it. Now when I try to get information from the sound Icon on the trayit shows me that there is VLC and Amarok, I am assuming that only one of them can run at a time. How do I shut down the VLC? just Kill it? Then I can run Amarok?

thanks,
ohjrson

I recently was trying out the Elementary OS distro. Whay I liked was that the desktop is disabled by default. Is it possible to disable the desktop in Linux Lite?

Hi all Linux Lite users!

I have just installed the Linux Lite in my home server, and also installed my HP DAT 72 SCSI tape drive, which apparently, Linux Lite can 'see it' via the information on SCSI controller, but not visible so as I can use it.

My idea is to activate such device and share it on a Windows network so as I can access it for backups from a Windows 7 workstation.

Any ideas on how to 'activate' the drive and to share it on the network?


All the best!

Hello,

I am looking for some advice on choosing a text editor that has an option to allow me to change the page colour to a specific hex colour.
If the editor uses different colour fonts on the page for functions I would need it to either, alter those to contrast with the new page colour automatically, or have separate colour controls for each font function set so I can edit manually to contrast.

After looking at some of the messages posted on this forum it's apparent that others are having the same problem as me. After installing the LL updates & rebooting we are losing our wifi. Some people are reinstalling LL. My questions are: Is there a way to just remove the updates without having to reinstall LL? What is the best way to reinstall LL, is it with the CD, or is there a better way? Thanks.

AZ

Hello LL community, was so very excited to try Linux again - hoping this time would be a happiness.  Sadly, no fun here...

The issue:  It took 3 to 4 hours to install LL to my laptop, no matter what BIOS settings I try.  It takes 20 to 30 minutes to boot into the OS from cold start.  Once in, it takes minutes to open apps and play around with anything.  Shutdowns are not possible, it goes through some dialog about quitting this and that, goes blank, then sits there indefinitely.

My solution attempts:  Downloaded the ISO file twice to separate locations.  Created a USB image 3 times using Win32DiskImager, onto 2 different thumb drives freshly formatted w/FAT32.  Tried disabling every available hardware device possible in the BIOS.  Took out HDD and booted into LL off USB stick only - still ultra slow, 40+ minutes...  Ran an update of the software, which it did perform, taking another close to an hour - no change in slowness.

Attached is my system info file I managed to generate (25 minutes), so I won't duplicate the specs here again.  The laptop is from Micron, and is technically a MPC TransPort X1000, which came with WinXP originally.  It does run on Win 7, albeit slowly (but way faster than LL will go).  The HDD is a different one I've put in for running LL exclusively, and checks out fine.

Perhaps I'm just not meant to enjoy the wonderful world of Linux, as this is my 4th attempt to use it in the last 10 years (all with issues, and on different systems).  If I had to guess, it seems as if something is taking up CPU cycles and not allowing much else to have any.  I did run the Resources program while in LL, and the CPU shows 100% in red color bars, but the number of running processes is 4 to 5 - and the percentages of usage don't add up to 100.  Anyway, I'm at a loss as to what to try next.  Driver???

I hope it's something simple, and I apologize up front for my lack of Linux knowledge - been a MS dude all these years going back to DOS.  Would like to begin learning Linux and becoming comfortable with it, but not if it runs slower than molasses for me.  I appreciate any help that can be given in solving this severe slowness.  I look forward to trying any suggestions, or giving more info if needed.  Thank you...



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I am trying to install Lite on my old netbook (with windows xp)

I got this error:



then I got this message:



Now, I am trying to login with my password
it did not login  :o
It just keep blink  and back with  password filed again and again

If  enter wrong password
It show me the message "Authentication Failed"

Made these last week, and I've decided to share them.
They are not so francy, just simple and very blue.

The solution:

sudo convert /usr/lib/primeindicator/intel.png -resize 24x24 /usr/lib/primeindicator/intel.png
sudo convert /usr/lib/primeindicator/nvidia.png -resize 24x24 /usr/lib/primeindicator/nvidia.png

Source:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/493271/pr...xfce-panel

Recently decided to pull desk out, unplug desktop PC and give the area behind a good clean. When reassembling fitted a new USB Keyboard and Mouse to replace the rather worn USB keyboard and mouse that were previously installed.

Now for the weird bit. When booting LL2 and reaching the login user screen I have to wait a further 48 seconds before the mouse becomes active whereas it was active immediately before installing the new hardware. Once the mouse finally activate both that and the keyboard work as intended.

Can anyone point advise how I can eradicate this delay on the mouse activation that was never there before