Some days ago I tried hooking up a monitor to my Linux Lite laptop. After that, the screen has magically been set to lock itself after a few minutes. There's an option in Screensaver Preferences to "Lock Screen After X Minutes" but it's not checked, nor have I ever made this setting myself.

How do I remove the lock screen?

There's only one thing worse than watching a Youtube video with no sound, instructions via a text editor and constant spelling mistakes.
For your viewing pleasure...

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

I am curious to have your opinions (with reasons) on whether you think there is anything to be gained (or not) by having Linux run in UEFI mode in modern PCs, either alone or within a Windows dual-boot, assuming the PC has the facility to select between either BIOS (CMS) or UEFI mode. 

I myself am unsure and feel a bit inexperienced to have any firm opinion on this.  I had always assumed that having a signed Windows OS made it at least a bit more secure, particularly against potential malware attacks to the registery (though I suspect that Microsoft may possibly have exaggerated their claims for UEFI's protective effect as part of their marketing).

Quidsup, a network security analyst by profession, who posts regularly on his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/quidsup,  estimates that antivirus/malware software is only 20% effective at most.  Apparently, malware in applications such as flashplayer is immune to antivirus software.  Incidentally, he describes Adobe Flashplayer as "having more security holes than a collander" for which his solution is simply to remove it  from your PC whether you have Windows or Linux...

Linux seems fairly robust against malware, though of course it's not entirely immune - I have had one incident of  malware infection (see https://mityer.khdlhfjijfrupr.tk/forums/other...0/#msg4960).  In a dual-boot set-up, could some Windows malware crossover and infect Linux, e.g. through file-sharing - I have heard this might be the case and some malware can infect both platforms? Could UEFI have some beneficial effect here for Linux, in protecting the registry, as with Windows OS?

Many thanks for your views...
Mike 

My Wifi connection is working, signal is strong, and connection stable and fast (after parameter experiments and changes I made - see prior post).
Now I'm seeing another problem of the Wifi bars not showing up, and the name of the connected AP also not showing up, even though I'm currently connected very well and fast I/O going on.  Even prior to updating my Realtek Wifi driver I saw the problem of the AP sometimes not showing up under the "Wi-Fi Network" label of the pop-down wifi menu (Panel bar).  I see the "disconnect" option there but not the name of the AP.

My system-info report file is attached

My favorite super-lightweight terminal emulator is aterm (even though it's discontinued). My favorite everyday use terminal is Sakura.

Hello. I would like to figure out how to keep my Wi-Fi indicator from blinking. How would I do this?

everything worked after install, all I did was plug in usb speakers and they worked (only ones that still work). No onboard speakers. Looking in forums, goggle settings, volume control. Researched Intel Mobile 945GSE and realtek ALC-218. Thanks in advance for an easy answer, I hope...   

Just done a fresh install of LL 2.8 & having issues updating it.
Done the google chrome fix, reloaded the sources list etc. but I keep getting failures.
Did 2 fresh installs of LL 2.8 two days ago & updated them without any issues once the google chrome fix was done but not having a win today.

W:Failed to fetch http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/dists...ce/Sources  404  Not Found [IP: 122.149.3.87 80]
, W:Failed to fetch http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/dists...4/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 122.149.3.87 80]
, W:Failed to fetch http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/dists...6/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 122.149.3.87 80]
, W:Failed to fetch http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite/di...6/Packages  404  Not Found
, E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

What am I missing?
Something simple no doubt but I can't update at all until I get a little help.

Thanks

I found this video that you can use if you upgrade to LL 3. It is ment for Linux Mint but some of it can be used for LL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui5jBdTIuyI

[EDIT] This is ONLY if you have the Realtek RTL8723BE wifi adapter.  Also, try the parameter mod's in my second post below this one before you go to the trouble of rebuilding the driver with these instructions:

This intermittent wifi issue (slow speeds, random disconnects, no wifi on boot up, etc.) with the common Realtek RTL8723BE WiFi adapter is commonly dealt with on the Ubuntu and Linux Mint forums.  Search there for more info.
I had this issue with Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.2 when I installed it a while back.  Anyway, I did a similar thing to workaround the issue on Linux Lite 3.0, and at least so far seems to be working. Here's what I did, FYI, if you have the same Realtek wifi chip it might help you as well...

root@G50:/home/brad/#