Whenever I attempt Install of FrostWire 5.6.1 I get a message stating that the JRE is incompatible.  or something to that effect. Has anyone succeeded with installing FrostWire with Linux lite?


If so,


Please give me the "run-down" on how to get it installed onto my Lite OS.

I haven't had my machine on for while, but having switched on and completed quite a number of updates, for some reason I have no minimise, maximise or close on any of my windows other than chrome. Alt F4 to close is about the only option that works. I know this is related window manager but I'm lost as what to restore, I've tried changing/adding keyboard options but even that doesn't seem have an affect.  ???

[size=1.35em]ASUS 1201HAB Netbook (with damaged but usable screen) running Linux Lite as a Pi-hole LAN-wide ad blocking headless server.[/size]

This machine had been dual booted with XP and a previous version of LL. It was configured to use Win XP to bridge the residential gateway wifi here to my own private wireless router. This setup had provided a private subnet with four Ethernet ports and a WAP.

I happened to find a WRT54g ver. 6 Wireless G Router, added a suitable wall-wart, loaded it with the WRT-DD (micro) firmware, and configured it to Client Bridge mode. Thus I was able to replace the netbook bridge and say goodbye to Windows XP.  Also, the WRT54g provides not one but five Ethernet ports directly connected to the residential gateway via wifi.  My own private wireless router is plugged into one of these ports leaving four available to access the residential LAN.

So now I set about deploying the unused netbook as a Pi-hole DNS server. First thing was to load the latest version of Linux Lite so I took the opportunity to eliminate the dual boot configuration. I also upgraded the RAM from one to two GB but I doubt this yields any value, it may have actually slowed things down. Pi-hole is very easy to install and administer so all I really had to deal with was making the Linux Lite system work like a headless server. I expect the configuration changes here would apply to any Ubuntu based distro. It took a lot of experimentation but the end result is a pretty simple configuration process. I am so grateful for all those contributions of knowledge, here and elsewhere, which I liberally stole these ideas from.

The first issue to address is that, by default, the lid switch will put the system into a suspend state. This happens in two different contexts, the display manager's (lightdm) greeter and the window manager (Xfwm). Fortunately there is a simple way to defeat the suspend response for both.

    In /etc/systemd/logind.conf modify "suspend" to "lock" in this fashion:

        HandleLidSwitch=lock

In addition to this, you'll want to configure the usual power management settings in the obvious ways including locking the system after a period of inactivity for security purposes. Basically, don't let the system suspend, hibernate, or power off when on AC.

Next we have to deal with getting NetworkManager to automatically connect to the network at a static ip address during unattended boot. The easiest way that I've found to do this is to add a few lines to /etc/rc.local. First you need to set up the NetworkManger connection with the static address on the LAN and proper upstream DNS servers through the normal nm-applet means. Just give it a name you can use from the command line, I'll use EthCon in my example. Also, due to a race condition bug in Pi-hole on Ubuntu, you'll need to get Pi-hole to restart its DNS server after the connection is made.

    In /etc/rc.local add these lines before the "exit 0" line at the bottom, replacing EthCon appropriately of course.

        /usr/bin/nmcli con up id EthCon 2>/dev/null &
        sleep 60
        /usr/local/bin/pihole restartdns 2>/dev/null &


For access from a remote system on the LAN one can further install vnc4server using the Synaptic Package Manager (as opposed to the Linux Lite software installer). One must run vncserver from the command line to initially set up the password and config files. Then simply comment out the two lines according to the instructions at the top of ~/.vnc/xstartup so that the normal GUI server will be started when you remote in. (If using vnc4viewer on the client machine, one might type "vncviewer <static-ip-of-the-Pi-hole-server>:1" and then enter the password you configured for the vncserver.) To insure the vnc server is loaded at boot time do the following. (There is undoubtedly a better way to launch this but I despise fooling with the init/systemd/whatever problems.)

    In /etc/rc.local add this line before the "exit 0" line at the bottom after the lines inserted above replacing <username> appropriately.

        su - <username> -c "cd && vncserver :1" 2>/dev/null &


That's it, all I recall doing anyway; I may test these instructions from scratch at some point. Please note that Pi-hole has limitations and supplementing it with ad blocking extensions where possible is an option. For example, YouTube commercials are blocked by the uBlock Origin extension in Firefox and Chrome but not by Pi-hole. I do not know how much overhead this overkill incurs.

team,

can anybody help me with how to install microsoft office on Linux Lite 3.4. i am not able to install the same..
would appriciate help with the same..
you can directly mail me on [email protected] too..

regards
pradyut

Hello!


I don't frequent the LL forums much anymore. Life's happened and all that. That's just how it is...
Anyways, A few days ago, I helped my grandparents setup their new cable Internet and a "new" computer. I say "new" because it really was just an unused desktop with not much use since new in 2010. The machine is an eMachines EL-1600 desktop with an Intel Atom 1.6, weak Intel Graphics, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD. Average basic sub-$400 USD computer from 2010. It came with Windows XP on it, and as you all know by now, it's been out of support for a while now. Up until a few days ago, they were using an even older HP Desktop from 2006 also running XP to get on the internet. Terribly insecure by now, for sure.


Now here's where the fun started with the "new" computer. It had really no data on it because it was unused for the better part of the decade so I didn't care about losing anything.


So first, I tried to install Windows 10 Home on it. HA! HA!. Really bad idea. So yes, it ran and booted, but barely. The 1GB of RAM was really the limiting factor here. From a cold boot, it was idling at about 750MB from a cold boot. Granted, some of the blame was my fault because the Windows 10 was 64-Bit, which I didn't know until after it installed. I booted and installed Windows 10 from a flash drive I made years back. That didn't stay on for long to say the least, running and gobbling up resources like that. So, something light, but something relatively easy to use OS was in need of calling here. I tried Linux Mint for the hell of it with the Cinnamon desktop, knowing that was somewhat Windows-like. It ran poorly on the little eMachines as well and consumed too much RAM to do too little much else on. So I had to pull out my beast of a laptop (ASUS ROG G752VT gaming laptop, a far cry from the little eMachines) to create a new USB bootable stick of Linux Lite 3.4 32-Bit, which luckily I had a copy of. Took 3 minutes to do that via DD in my laptop using Manjaro KDE (the only distro that works really well on this ROG). Took 15 minutes to get the OS on to the little eMachines. Idling from a cold boot with LL 32-Bit, RAM was about 350MB, which is a far cry from Windows. My grandparents like it better than Windows XP. Looks more modern to them. The floppy disk drive also did not work in Windows 10, since MS removed support for that, but works in Linux. I got their HP printer setup, their cable internet via Ethernet, their email on Thunderbird and a couple other little things. They are now secure and good to go. Never have to worry about viruses ever again. I did tell them this though: "Turn on the computer once a week to run the updates and input in the password I gave you. You can go for 2 weeks without turning it on, but there will be some data to download when that amount of time passes between updates, so I'd say once a week."


So story time is over!
Thanks for reading,
Theo.

How to change the color of these?

When I try to change my sources to the best/ fastest server in UK, it returns the fastest server as being mirrors.nl.eu.org. Please see this link https://justpaste.it/18d7z for the errors I receive. It would also seem that the extras repository is causing an issue as I have had to remove that from my sources.list file.
Many thanks

I just finished doing some searching for discussions about web browsers in Lite. I found a few, but none were exactly what I was looking for, and several of them were pretty dated. I hope this is the correct place to post this. If not, somebody tell me and I'll try and do better.

I have seen more than one comment on the forum about problems with Firefox and a few of you have expressed discontent with how big and bloated Firefox has become. I hold that thought myself. I went through it with Netscape, Firefox, and several Linux distros. Each of them became bigger and more bloated with every update.

So what I'd like to see is which browsers some of you are using and why you chose that specific browser over others. I know that what I'd really like to find is a browser that is lightweight, is fast, offers Flash and Java, and also a few extensions like an ad blocker and a really good download manager. Right now I have Adblock Plus, DownThemAll, and Password Exporter extensions on Firefox.

So, what's your favorite, and why?

I'm trying to set my HP printer to print in black ink (i.e. grayscale using black ink only) by default. This should be possible because before using Linux Lite, this same printer and same desktop PC could be set on Windows 7 to default to this setting. Then if I had a color document to print, I would change it to print in color for my document and afterward I would change it back to black ink only ready for next time. 

I can't figure out how to set it to default to black ink only in LinuxLite. Any suggestions please? Is there a setting I have somehow missed?

I've already set the following setting under Menu -> All -> Printers:

Screenshot A:


The problem is that despite this setting shown above, when I go to print, it still defaults to color (this happens whether printing via LibreOffice or via Chrome - those are the main things I print with). Sure, I can get it to print in black ink for the document or website at hand for the individual document being printed, but not as a default setting.

As an example, see below the example of how I have to do it with each document in Chrome:

Screenshot B:


If I hit the "Print" button at top, then it will print in color. If instead I go via "Print using system dialog" seen at bottom, I then get taken to the following dialog:

Screenshot C:


And here I can select black ink instead of color, but it only seems to work for that document only. If I want to print again in black ink, I have to go through "Print using system dialog" and change it to black ink again.

So this is clunky, having to go through this every time I want to print in black ink.  I want it to DEFAULT to black ink (and change/override that setting on the rare occasions I want to print in color), instead of the other way around which is what I have now. Any guidance would be appreciated.

Other info:
Linux Lite recognized my printer right away, I didn't have to install anything myself or do anything via command line. This is all out-of-the-box. I'm not sure if that info was relevant, but wanted to mention in case.

Good day,
Initially I attempted install from the live version of the usb boot drive. The install program ended up quitting and showing a fuzzy screen. I then attempted install from linux lite safe mode. This worked fine. Except now I am trying to install updates and the computer freezes with the same fuzzy screen every time I update.