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    Thread: Grub Menu showing on bootup
Post: Re: Grub Menu showing on bootup

My system is Debian Jessie and swap on sda1 and Kali linux sdb1 swap and linux lite 2.8 sdb3. Debian Jessie was installed first. Then Kali linux and finally linux lite. Each new system took over the b...
trinidad Start up and Shutdown 14 14,602 05-27-2016, 03:32 PM
    Thread: Short Introduction
Post: Short Introduction

I have installed linux lite 2.8 on over a dozen boxes now, many times along side windows7 and 10, on machines as old as ten years, up to brand new. I repair windows machines and networks for personal ...
trinidad Introductions 1 3,011 06-03-2016, 09:38 PM
    Thread: network manager reporting not for all users keeps turning off
Post: Re: network manager reporting not for all users ke...

I see you have multiple disks and partitions. Is Debian Jessie one of the other systems? Was it installed first? Depending on your BIOS version you may have a volume ownership problem concerning the w...
trinidad Network 8 7,318 06-03-2016, 10:14 PM
    Thread: grub2 and lite3 release
Post: Re: grub2 and lite3 release

The grub in linux lite always sets itself up as the first system to boot because most new users install it alongside windows, and chain load the windows boot loader. These boot issues always exist on ...
trinidad Installing Linux Lite 5 5,676 06-04-2016, 03:17 PM
    Thread: How do I rename distros in my grub menu?
Post: Re: How do I rename distros in my grub menu?

Some distros will name different distros correctly on the grub screen, others will not, deferring to Ubuntu versions. Is Debian Jessie among the distros you have loaded, or Kali linux? It has been my ...
trinidad Other 4 6,990 06-04-2016, 07:58 PM
    Thread: How do I rename distros in my grub menu?
Post: Re: How do I rename distros in my grub menu?

Also: in any case if you have Jessie already installed, you can easily edit everything from there. I suspect that the bright blue screen of the linux lite grub list is a jibe at the windows blue scree...
trinidad Other 4 6,990 06-04-2016, 08:10 PM
    Thread: MS "Nasty Tricks"
Post: Re: MS "Nasty Tricks"

Elderly people with aging windows computers are constantly victimized by MS and self labeled MS technicians, even MS certified people that I know of. When this windows10 mess hit it affected many of m...
trinidad Off Topic 6 4,623 06-04-2016, 08:39 PM
    Thread: Mixed language in menu's and applications.
Post: Re: Mixed language in menu's and applications.

Try going to session and startup and delete all saved sessions, reboot, then apply your language change, tick save session and reboot. I had some friends encounter an issue like this a while back with...
trinidad Installing Linux Lite 17 11,790 06-06-2016, 01:43 PM
    Thread: Mixed language in menu's and applications.
Post: Re: Mixed language in menu's and applications.

Look through your installed packages in synaptic. Is everything in Dutch? Check the Debian dependencies and the Dutch language packages. It may be a package specific problem, and even could be somethi...
trinidad Installing Linux Lite 17 11,790 06-06-2016, 02:30 PM
    Thread: Mixed language in menu's and applications.
Post: Re: Mixed language in menu's and applications.

Another thing to remember in XFCE, if I remember it correctly is that language support is optional by user, which means it does not run until login. I remember there being an option display at login, ...
trinidad Installing Linux Lite 17 11,790 06-06-2016, 02:57 PM
    Thread: Icons Jump Left.. [99% solved] [Not solved after time, and solved again??]
Post: Re: Icons Jump Left.. [99% solved] [Not solved af...

You guys are bringing up several different issues here. I am new to linux lite, January this year, but I have run the KDE desktop, and the XFCE desktop both entirely successfully with all features in ...
trinidad Installing Linux Lite 63 51,862 06-06-2016, 11:29 PM
    Thread: How can two LL versions be mutually compatible on one physical hard drive?
Post: Re: How can two LL versions be mutually compatible...

add to synaptic deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/danielrichter2007/grub-customizer/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/danielrichter2007/grub-customizer/ubuntu YOUR_UBU...
trinidad Installing Linux Lite 7 5,336 06-09-2016, 01:44 PM
    Thread: Mixed language in menu's and applications.
Post: Re: Mixed language in menu's and applications.

It is probably correct that the repositories are a problem. The support in Debian stable is complete for basic desktop. You may have to find the correct versions for certain packages in linux lite, ho...
trinidad Installing Linux Lite 17 11,790 06-09-2016, 02:21 PM
    Thread: Icons Jump Left.. [99% solved] [Not solved after time, and solved again??]
Post: Re: Icons Jump Left.. [99% solved] [Not solved af...

I really like this distro as well. Do you have gnome services enabled in the startup session menu? If not, tick the box to enable, save the session, logout and reboot. Linux Lite is a blend of desktop...
trinidad Installing Linux Lite 63 51,862 06-09-2016, 02:53 PM
    Thread: GuvcWiev: no video
Post: Re: GuvcWiev: no video

Did cheese work with your camera on your other linux systems? Did you have a problem installing it in linux lite, or did you just remove it because it didn't work? Trinidad
trinidad Other 9 7,253 06-09-2016, 03:09 PM
    Thread: Mixed language in menu's and applications.
Post: Re: Mixed language in menu's and applications.

I'll add this page to this discussion (https://www.debian.org/security/) only because repositories can be confusing for new windows converts, and other packages in cutting edge OS Ubuntu can easily ru...
trinidad Installing Linux Lite 17 11,790 06-10-2016, 04:45 PM
    Thread: Linux Lite doesn't see my USB sticks
Post: Re: Linux Lite doesn't see my USB sticks

Are they plugged in when you boot? Sometimes boot will skip volumes and you will not see an icon. This even occasionally happens from a g-parted live iso disk. If they are not showing up, unplug and r...
trinidad Hard Drives and SSDs 14 12,923 06-10-2016, 05:34 PM
    Thread: Linux Lite doesn't see my USB sticks
Post: Re: Linux Lite doesn't see my USB sticks

Also many Sandisk sticks will tell you file corruption is occurring if you have linux files on them when you insert them into a windows computer. Ignore it. They will also save file remnants to a recy...
trinidad Hard Drives and SSDs 14 12,923 06-10-2016, 05:48 PM
    Thread: Using Gnome Software Center on Linux Lite 3.0 (?)
Post: Re: Using Gnome Software Center on Linux Lite 3.0 ...

First of all there is no need to install another software center other than your installed distro SC. It's only a matter of repos listing. Secondly another distro based SC will not always identify bro...
trinidad Installing Software 6 19,076 06-11-2016, 04:09 PM
    Thread: Icons Jump Left.. [99% solved] [Not solved after time, and solved again??]
Post: Re: Icons Jump Left.. [99% solved] [Not solved af...

XfdesktopIconView::ellipsize-icon-labels = 1 and XfdesktopIconView::cell-spacing = 6 Change the cap I  in "view" in your file to small i. Reboot and see if that hardens the installation. Trinidad
trinidad Installing Linux Lite 63 51,862 06-13-2016, 01:48 PM