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Genetrally speaking,
would a USB extension card in a PCIe allow booting?

Just looking for an educated guess.
Nothing too critical.

Explanation:
- an ancient desktop PC works extremely well...

contact info for discourse.lubuntu.me admins ?

trying to register
nick accepted
email address accepted
no activation email (not in spam)
resend fails with "An error occurred: The...

I suggest you don't even try GUI tools as none seems reliable atm.

They used to be, but things have changed.

You risk ending up with nice config files that current samba packages can't...

Just a very specific theoretical curiosity.

- SSD
- swapfile on SDD, preassigned as such and left alone at that size
- does wear leveling work WITHIN the swapfile?

I guess it doesn't. AFAIU...

I specified "shutdown" on power button press in Xfce Power Manager.

On 2 Lubuntu 18.04 LTS installs, desktop and notebook, pressing the power button


SOMETIMES shuts the computer down...

I can live with it, but it could signal trouble.

On 2 near identical Lubuntu 18.04 LTS installs, to enter Veracrypt passwords
- on the notebook I can move the cursor and use backspace and delete...

Why?

Lubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Extra SSD is on fstab as:

/dev/mapper/sdb1_crypt /home/fcc/polje ext4 noauto,user,noatime 0 2

It mounts/umounts perfectly by unprivileged user.

mount...

Excellent replies!

I'll try LXQT elsewhere and wait for a LTS release that includes it.

An opportunity to check if I'm still good at cloning my system for use on a VM, then add LXQT and just...

Hello!

Happy on LXDE on Lubuntu 18.04.
Want to try LXQT which I know is in my future.

I know how to install and switch.

2 questions

1) Any current known big issues using both on the same...

Booting this morning I noticed high memory usage and CPUs at 100% for a few seconds.

I quickly opened a task manager and saw both gcc and make were hyperactive, but couldn't see the commands.
...

OK, thanks! Reinstalled linux-generic and purged all of the 4.13.x kernels.
All is fine. If I got it right
- linux-generic is GA, comes with 16.04, and depends on 4.4.x, which is LTS and will be...

Excellent question, thank you jeremy31, linux-generic-hwe-16.04 is not installed.

I had considered installing either linux-generic-hwe-16.04 or linux-generic-lts-xenial and I think neither was...

Hello!
One line for the quick:
It's Feb 18, 16.04, linux 4.13 BUT linux-generic STILL pulls in 4.4.

Details:
- 16.04 (upgraded), running a linux 4.13...
- a while ago, didn't boot (my stupid...

Thank you TheFu! (great nick)

Breaking apt dependencies does not worry me as binaries and configuration and all of apt are stored in files on the filesystem that will be copied over, not in...

I have 2 strictly related Xenial installs
- basic install on a 64G SSD, more advanced install with many manually installed apps on a 120G SSD
- the one in the bigger disk was a dd clone of the...

Hello everyone! I really hope this isn't a dumb question.

I want to to
- CLONE a system
- to a PREEXISTING FILE SYSTEM,
- without copying a whole partition IMAGE.

Before grub2 it was...

I have one data partition via ntfs-3g (mounted auto or manually) and all works fine. however...

PROBLEM
IN LXDE AND GNOME, WHEN NTFS-3G IS ACTIVE,
4 EMPTY ICON PLACES ARE OCCUPIED IN THE SYSTEM...

I am now convinced that Unity is the most perfect and wonderfully customizable user interface that was ever conceived on this planet.

I think developers should take advantage of it and poll the...

I am considering dropping Ubuntu altogether because of the choice of Unity as default desktop environment.

I think Unity is quite adequate for pinball machines, however Ubuntu is not marketed as...

Thank you!

So it looks like we reached the end of the Matrix for now! :-D

I'll keep my ears up.

Thank you SteveDee! Clarifications:


LXDE vs GNOME

> I generally run LXDE session on my Ubuntu 10.10 laptop,
> but I can still run Gnome session if I chose during login.

It means that you...

Screenshot.

The "Preferences" submenu visible in the menu is the one WITHIN "Applications", and NOT the identical one nested inside "System".

Indeed, the whole "System" section is missing.
...

OK, solved.

- logged in as another user

- looked into the properties of the entry
LXDE Menu / Applications / Preferences / Main Menu

- the command was "alacarte" and it did NOT require...

10.04 with LXDE via Synaptic (not actually Lubuntu).

I just noticed that in the dialog LDXE Main Menu / Preferences / Main Menu

- the LDXE Main Menu / System / Administration submenu is set as...

Thank you SteveDee!

I indeed found that this line was missing from my
/usr/share/desktop-directories/lxde-settings.directory file:

X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-menus

This is a system-wide...