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In my install (18.10) you do this:

1) Right-click any open space on the task (bottom) bar.
2) select Configure Panel
3) select the 'Widgets' item on the left pane
4) select the 'Quick Launch' item (3rd from the top on mine)
5) say "What the fuck?" when the gear icon fails to do anything.
6) curse LXQt
7) do a quick google search for 'lxqt configure quick launch'
8) try the things on this page.
9) curse more.
10) realize that you can just drag-and-drop a program shortcut from the 'start' menu into that task bar.
11) curse more, because why the fuck even have a configure panel option if you can't use it to configure the blasted panel?!?

You need a media player, something like VLC, which includes the necessary codecs to play your DVD. It is available for Ubuntu and should work under Lubuntu as well.

Firstly, Lubuntu 18.04 LTS is EOL (end-of-life) so you're now using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with LXDE in my opinion.

Refer - https://lubuntu.me/bionic-eol/ & https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2020/08/14/ubuntu-18-04-5-lts-released/

You can confirm with ubuntu-support-status to view the packages that are still supported (ie. those used by Ubuntu) and those unsupported (the Lubuntu packages).

Installed programs don't use RAM when not in use; so removing them won't help with lack of RAM.

Most important is using libraries/toolkits that are common between the programs that are running (ie. sharing the limited RAM). You also need to consider what the desktop itself requires.

I actually use x86 devices that still have 1GB of RAM (inc. a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with LXDE, XFCE & more installed), but I'll pick the desktop I login with by what I'll be doing on it during that session (ie. Xfce in bionic is a mixture of GTK3 & GTK2 so can be better with GTK3 apps than LXDE which is GTK2; so what apps will I use).

I don't care about disk space used - it's RAM I worry about; where it's the toolkits & libraries that need to be shared between the running program & desktop (thus I don't care that I'm wasting disk space on my old thinkpads by having full xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop & more installed...)

Removing packages you don't use won't really help with RAM (just reduce the disk space being used).

By the way, you can go directly to the blog posting here:

https://lubuntu.me/focal-3-released/

There's no commenting there or anything, so if you want the devs to see any comments you're better off on the forum.

Hi,

If you're doing a fresh install of Lubuntu, get the ISO image again from https://lubuntu.me/ and make a bootable pen drive.

If the problem occurs again, use another Pen Drive as the one you're using might be having issues.

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Thanks

You can configure this in the sudoers file. To edit the sudoers file, run

sudo visudo

To make sudo require root's password instead of the user's password, add

Defaults rootpw

To disable the grace period where sudo doesn't prompt for a password, add

Defaults timestamp_timeout=0

you could use LiLi: http://www.linuxliveusb.com/

it ads persistence to the live iso, meaning all the changes made can be saved and re-used after reboot

should also check the support matrix to see the supported distros: http://www.linuxliveusb.com/en/supported-linuxes - Lubuntu 15.04 seems to be last on the list; 15.10 isn't

Right. Some time ago, to prevent exactly this kind of situation, I suggested the mods to add a link to the official web site https://lubuntu.me/ prominently under the "About Community" block in the right hand side.

As you discovered, if you search for lubuntu in DDG, the first result is a web site with the title "lubuntu - lightweight, fast, easier" which is NOT the official web site.

Actually it was an ISO (20.04) downloaded from lubuntu.me ; The same boot usb drive was used in other old laptop and it didn't get similar error messages...

But this "lubuntu[dot]net" almost got me when I searched for the ISO!

Thanks!

Have you tried something else beside Rufus, and did you check hash of iso, just in case something downloaded wrong?

Also did you download image from lubuntu.net or lubuntu.me? As Lubuntu.me is official page. Looking in https://lubuntu.me/downloads/ at bottom I found link for your 18.04.5 image.

https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/18.04.5/release/

The reason for the change to LXQT was that the lead (sole?) developer of LXDE did not like the GTK3 license and decided to switch to the QT framework. For a while both were co-developed but LXDE has been out of active development for several years. The Lubuntu team explained their decision on the Lubuntu.me website. My hats are off to them for the work they do, however at this time it is not the best distro for me.

The beauty of Linux is the freedom to tinker or to chose. A couple of my PCs still run Lubuntu but my main PCs no longer host it. I am loyal to Debian forks strictly out of familiarity. I value practicality and prefer feature stable OSes over cutting edge releases. I want a consistent user experience over anything else and LXQT isn't providing that at this time.

>lubuntu.me

https://lubuntu.me Just want to make sure an actual hyperlink is listed. The other site is linked to here; I don't want the Google crawler seeing it and giving it another promotion.

This user reports that godot runs well on underpowered hardware. You should make sure that your laptop gpu supports OpenGL 3.3 and that there is an up-to-date-driver available for (L)ubuntu.

I'd also check you were on the official site; ie. I see no reference to x86/32-bit on https://lubuntu.me/downloads/ which is the official site.

(though if you follow links to previous releases you'll find them too; but they are unsupported)

As mentioned by someone else, it could be a driver/kernel issue.

If you cant get your laptop working with Lubuntu, try Linux Mint XFCE 20.3 which uses kernel 5.4 and, unlike Lubuntu, has a built in driver manager (search for driver manager in the menu).

I find Linux Mint more ''complete'' than (L)ubuntu and better suited for inexperienced users (it's also excellent for older hardware and comparable to Lubuntu in terms of resource usage).

https://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=294

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo

A search engine is what I used to find that; search engines are pretty useful (I use startpage & limited it to only official results for first search, then open up to 3rd party if required, but we all have our own preferences; `ubuntu compile from source site:.ubuntu.com` and that was the first item offered*)

It's unclear what you're asking.

You've not provided any release details, Lubuntu has been using LXQt for the last 7+ releases so Qt5 is of course installed, but it's the runtime libraries & not dev libraries used for compilation. But without clear details I really don't know what you're asking.

If you're after support I'll provide https://lubuntu.me/links/ or for Ubuntu support which can be helpful too https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/community-support/709 but I'd suggest being clear with details.

Ubuntu uses the year format releases for snap only products, such as Ubuntu Core 16.

Lubuntu is a desktop release based on deb packages; thus is year.month in format; eg. the latest is Lubuntu 21.10 or the 2021-October release.

There is no Lubuntu 16, and the oldest supported release of Lubuntu is actually Lubuntu 20.04 LTS (see here). Being a flavor only 3 years of support are offered for LTS releases; though packages that are common with main Ubuntu (which has 5 years of support) will still receive upgrades & security fixes; but only those. You can use ubuntu-support-status to confirm for your own install, however do note even Ubuntu 16.04 LTS reached end of <em>standard</em> support months ago.

If your hardware is i386 only; the last supported release was Lubuntu 18.04 LTS, which still receives some updates/security-fixes for the packages that were common with main Ubuntu LTS.

You do realize Lubuntu 20.04 LTS is the oldest supported release of Lubuntu. Refer https://lubuntu.me/bionic-eol/ or https://discourse.lubuntu.me/t/lubuntu-18-04-lts-end-of-life-30-april-2021/2466

You can use ubuntu-support-status to see the packages which are still fully supported and receive security patches on your actual installed system, and those which don't (all LTS flavors of Ubuntu come with three years of support with packages from 'universe' or a repository that doesn't have a 5 year support guarantee)

For the VPN problem, try this. I did it in a VM and it fixed ProtonVPN: Click the start menu, go to Preferences>LXQt settings>Session settings, then click Autostart and uncheck nm-tray then check Network. Reboot and it should be fixed. If not, also try installing some of the packages in this stackexchange answer.

First and most importantly nobody cares because you paid zero dollars and zero cents.

Secondly Lubuntu is a deliberately minimalist experience. I have no idea why you installed it and expected something fancy and featureful. Consider cinnamon or KDE for a nicer experience. I prefer KDE.

Regarding your vpn.

Mullvad and others provide specific vpn clients that are as friendly as on any other OS. These user friendly services aren't much more expensive than average perhaps pick one?

>Ships with awkward limited access to its own terminal which requires bizarre commands light-years behind pre windows DOS.

sudo -i to start a session as the superuser. If you think bash is worse than dos you know neither bash nor dos although if you want something much nicer try fish.

You are aware that Lubuntu 20.04 LTS is the oldest supported release of Lubuntu (3 years is the LTS support life) - see https://lubuntu.me/bionic-eol/ for Lubuntu but it applies to all flavors (except Ubuntu Studio 18.04 which wasn't a LTS; it's support was via PPA which has been removed)

I actually used pentium M, pentium D, pentium 4, even old celerons for QA-testing releases up to Lubuntu 19.04 (until i386 ISO were no longer available) which included

• asus eepc 1000HE (intel atom n270, 1gb, intel mobile 945gse integrated), wireless RT2790

and Lubuntu 18.04 LTS performed as well as say Debian did (actually on the lowest powered device; a 2003 celeron, Lubuntu 18.04 LTS actually outperformed Debian (10) Buster rather easily which surprised me; I was interested in why, alas not enough to work out what Debian was struggling with on that box; as it wasn't fun to use).

There are tweaks you can perform; but like everything, there are pros & cons to everything.

Ensure you're using apps that share resources with the desktop (otherwise switching desktop maybe better); ie. police how you use the machine for efficient use of it.

FYI: I still use pentium M laptops (the eepc too if I need a portable with longer battery life), and that includes with Lubuntu 18.04 LTS; it can stream fine at resolutions higher than you suggested (it's better on some GPUs than others though without a fair configuration/tweaksl but that's a kernel [module] thing and not Ubuntu/Lubuntu specific). Lubuntu 18.04 LTS was available with two kernels stacks (as applies to all Ubuntu releases); I have two devices that are great with the GA stack but didn't perform with HWE once it reached 5.4; and I've seen 8+ others confirm the same issue (with same brand, some same models; others different but same vintage) so you may need different setups for specific devices, but most will use either (6 other devices are equally great with either).

Neither LXDE or LXQt are supported any longer in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (all flavors are EOL in 18.04 including Lubuntu) however LXQt in 18.04 was not a LTS so it's support ended after 9 months (ie. 2019-January; like Ubuntu Studio 18.04 which wasn't a LTS; though Ubuntu Studio had extended support). LXDE support ended in 2021-April so contains more security patches.

Yes you can, but I'd be asking whether it's a good thing.

That applies to LXDE releases (which are now EOL)[https://lubuntu.me/bionic-eol/] and not later releases. No alternate installer was provided for modern/supported releases of Lubuntu

The Ubuntu netboot installer can be used; then added using lubuntu-desktop using --no-install-recommends as documented on Lubuntu discourse/forum, but that doesn't exist for all releases either as the minimal/netboot installer was never officially supported [by Ubuntu], being produced as a by-product of a build process that is no longer used.

As long as it is supported and not past its "end of life" date, you should be fine.

However, if this is a laptop that you depend on to earn an income or is your only machine, I'd still buy that USB dongle and keep it in case it craps out again.

First thing: remove gnumeric and abiword and install Libreoffice

Remove evince and install Atril (Mate's pdf reader, it's lighter and very similar to evince)

Remove Xfburn and install Brasero (I like Xfburn but I need too mach the "save" function)

Remove Gnome-Mplayer and install SMPlayer (don't know why but on my computer it works better)

Install package "mate-utils" which has some useful tools: a search tool, a dictionary, a log-viewer and a screenshot taker (Note: these programs will not appear in the Lubuntu menu, you must remove line: OnlyShowIn=Mate (or somthing like that) in the desktop file in /usr/share/applications

Install Sound Converter and Asunder for CD ripping and file conversion

Install Audacity

Install Gimp

Install Cinelerra for video editing (Via PPA https://launchpad.net/~cinelerra-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/ppa)

You're in the wrong subreddit.

But I know what's going wrong! Darksky.net requires an API key that you can get if you register for free. Plug that API key into the extensions settings under Weather Provider (blurred here) and then darksky locations and weather data will work.

according to these links it's rather nice "OLD" laptop

http://www.cnet.com/products/dell-latitude-d630/specs/

http://www.dell.com/us/dfb/p/latitude-d630/pd

if that's your laptop you oculd upgrade it to SEVERAL gigs of ram and make it spit the lead out/haul balls (compared to 512mb ram).

oh yeah you actually have 512mb ram but, it says 400ish because of technical reasons.

That's usually a font issue.

If you don't know how to change the fonts by memory, you can use DistroTest and then mimic the same clicks on your system. Change the system fonts and that should fix it.

Apple's EFI implementation is proprietary (doesn't completely abide by the UEFI standard), and doesn't respect boot entries for removable media. Hold Alt/Option on boot to use the built-in boot device/partition selector, which is called Startup Manager.

If you're using rEFInd, you can simply press Esc to scan for additional boot options.

Which version of Lubuntu were you using?

1. I’ve never heard of anyone hearing about Lubuntu before hearing about Ubuntu. I feel like most people just start with Ubuntu and then move to alternatives. Good point though. Lubuntu is definitely less user friendly in some areas.

2. Interesting.

3. The hourglass thing is actually an openbox thing. There is an option in openbox menus to show the hourglass when a program is loading. It is called Startup Notification. Probably just something overlooked. I agree this should be considered when launching applications from the menu/launchers.

>lightweight, fast, easier

> I'm not convinced.

I agree that it is not easier. As a person who has done minimal installs and used distros like Crunchbang I kind of knew what to expect. I think it is trying to promote itself as user-friendly, but really it is just a great minimal distribution that fits my needs.

You should file your bugs to help improve the distribution.

I too don't know the release you're asking about; as it looks like a no longer supported release.

If this is a really old x86 only laptop & you're trying to install an unsupported release (such as 18.04), I'd suggest you use an ISO using the GA kernel (ie. 18.04 or 18.04.1 media) assuming you're trying to use/install the no longer supported Lubuntu 18.04.

I had two IBM thinkpads from 2004 that didn't like the HWE kernel of 5.4 (ie. 18.04.5) but were great when used with the GA kernel. But you've not provided any release details; and the picture isn't clear, so this response is mostly based on guess & what I recall from not recent QA-testing (~August 2020)

If it's 18.04, please refer - https://lubuntu.me/bionic-eol/ - https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2020/08/14/ubuntu-18-04-5-lts-released/ where you're now using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with LXDE in my opinion. You can use ubuntu-support-status to confirm on your actual box and see what is still supported (security wise) and what isn't.

Can you give some more info:

1. Did you actually install lubuntu on your hard drive or did you just put the iso on a bootable drive, and open the live environment?

2. What do you want to do? Do want to install Lubuntu only, that way you wipe the entire hard drive and the only OS you have is lubuntu or do you want to dual boot, that way you will be able to choose which OS you want to start(Windows or Lubuntu) every time your PC starts?

^(The official lubuntu website is) ^(lubuntu.me) ^(NOT lubuntu.net.)

Lubuntu 20.10 is EOL - please see https://lubuntu.me/lubuntu-20-10-end-of-life-and-current-support-statuses/

(20.10 = 2020.October, with 9 months of supported life).

Ok, I think I understand my mistake here. I was on Lubuntu.net instead of Lubuntu.me i don't understand the difference but apparently, .me is the official.

I have used ubuntu with 4 GB of ram and haven't had any issues, so it shouldn't be a memory issue for you. But just to check it, can you run this in terminal and copy what it returns

free -h

That will show if you are running low on memory for some unknown reason. Also what lubuntu version did you install, from official page? To me older page gets upper in results when searching to new official page.

And in the case it is something else, could you run this and copy back what you get

journalctl -b -p3

That would show us if there is some other issues.

Lubuntu Disco Dingo is no longer supported and is End of Life.

lubuntu.net **is not maintained by the Lubuntu Team or Community** and should not be trusted for any reason.

**ONLY** use ISOs, downlaods, documentation, etc. from lubuntu.me. That way you don't run into these problems.

Maybe you tried to download from an unofficial page? The official one is at https://lubuntu.me/

Please read the background story here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1029381/which-lubuntu-website-is-the-correct-one/1071325#1071325

Hi, not sure why web pages are taking so long to load? you could try the lighter one that it comes with instead of firefox. How much ram has that laptop got? I would defiantly get Lubuntu from https://lubuntu.me/downloads/ as the other one is not to trust. Also don't worry about looking for any anti virus programs as this is Linux. Good luck hope the granny enjoys =)

Lubuntu 10.04 was released in 2010 and is not supported anymore for almost a whole decade.

The current version is 20.04 and you should try to download it instead. Link: https://lubuntu.me/downloads/

Also, if Lubuntu 20.04 is too heavy for your machine, you could also take a look at even lighter Linux distros, like antiX and PeppermintOS, for example.

You can only upgrade from LTS to LTS when 20.04.xx is released which is in June.However for Lubuntu since they moved from LXDE to LXQt such a path would lead to corruption, so you need to back-up and re-install 20.04 now. You can upgrade to 20.04 from 19.10 though.

https://lubuntu.me/focal-released/

>Note, due to the extensive changes required for the shift in desktop environments, the Lubuntu team does not support upgrading from 18.04 or below to any greater release. Doing so will result in a broken system. If you are on 18.04 or below and would like to upgrade, please do a fresh install.

I don't think there will be any noticable difference, but when I installed 20.04 on my netbook (which is ancient Samsung N145) I found some video-driver related bugs (like screen flickering on greeter whenever I mouseover GUI element, every "fix" I found doesn't work). So I suggest you do a full backup so you can revert later if something doesn't work.
FYI you won't be able to upgrade 18.04 into 20.04, you will need to reinstall.

>Note, due to the extensive changes required for the shift in desktop environments, the Lubuntu team does not support upgrading from 18.04 or below to any greater release. Doing so will result in a broken system. If you are on 18.04 or below and would like to upgrade, please do a fresh install.

https://lubuntu.me/focal-released/

Lubuntu 20.04 doesn't have a alternate installation.

>how much memory is swapped out when you are streaming?

I have not idea how to check that. I am not good at computers, so everything I do requires me to educate myself. I teach myself about hard drive partitions--something I knew absolutely zero about last week--just to make that installation.

Not that I wouldn't be interested to know the answer, too. Would maximizing the swap space on the disk increase performance generally, or only at the point at which RAM is getting full?

So I would download the one from here. When the "official" release of 20.04 comes out, will I need to do anything or will it just be whichever up to date version I happen to be using at the time anyway?

We don't have a forum yet (I'm actually setting up a Discourse forum that should be good to go by the end of the week) but you can follow us on social media using the links here: https://lubuntu.me/links

the basic syntax is video=<driver>:<xres>x<yres>[-<bpp>][@refresh]. if you had a Radeon driver (this is a DRM device), for example, you could use video=radeonfb:1280x1024 or whatever your resolution is. note that bpp and refresh rate may be useful to set but they are optional. more on how this works in the kernel documentation.

For this method, I had access to a computer running windows. Also, it will destroy anything on the usb drive, so copy everything off that's important.

Download Yumi EFI version (not the regular version). Scroll all the way down to the bottom. https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/

Format your usb drive FAT32 using GUIformat: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm

Yumi UEFI Edition:

Step 1) Make sure you pick the correct drive!

Step 2) Pick one of the supported types : Lubuntu

Step 3) Load your ISO of Lubuntu

Step 4) If you want a live to retain settings, adjust the slider for storage on the usb

Step 5) Press install

Then you can either continue installing ISOs or insert it into your hp stream

Hp stream:

Plug in your usb drive

Boot and press ESC, pick F10 (BIOS). Go to system config

Disable secure boot and enable legacy support, reboot.

Press ESC and F9, change to UEFI Usb drive and it should boot your pen drive with your linux distributions. If you install more than one using YUMI to your usb drive, then you will have multiple options to choose from. I recommend trying Kubuntu and linux mint XFCE as well. Those both ran pretty well on my HP Stream.

Might be good to do some disk usage analysis, either with the GUI or CLI interface.

Hmm, in some BIOSs, there's an option "Boot from USB", maybe check if that's there (and enabled).

Otherwise, yes, there are other programs available for burning a USB. Rufus is what's usually recommended on Windows, the next most popular is UNetbootin.

If that doesn't work either, well, there's all of these:
https://alternativeto.net/software/rufus/?platform=windows

If you've gone through the first handful of these, you should probably try a different USB-stick instead.

Another idea is trying a completely different distro. For example, I've found openSUSE to be kind of an oddball when it comes to how they do their images, so maybe theirs magically works for you.

If even that doesn't work, maybe post specifically this in /r/linux4noobs to see if someone there has an idea.
You could also try /r/linuxmasterrace. Most of the guys there are terrible at explaining, but they know a staggering amount of things.

I think you could delete the whole partition one Lubuntu's live installer and create a new one, and I believe it uses the same libs and the mkfs like Gparted.

Gparted manual page

Gparted Docs

You probably need to delete partition table, make one with GPT and then allocate some space. Then you should click apply.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/ubuntu-20-04-release-features

Doesn't look 20.04 has any killer features. With the the upgrade requiring a reformat and fresh install, I'm wondering if it's worth 2 days of reconfiguraton (plus that painful Broadcom wifi driver search and install process) to upgrade. I am leaning towards not worth it.

For you guys who are upgrading, what drives your decision?

Install the Windows XP Lubuntu theme and tell your wife you have reinstalled it. Blame any differences on the new install.

I bet that in a very short time, she is happy with the reinstall, but not after giving you an earful about messing with the PC. Source: Also have a wife.

I don't know if this would change anything, but apparently Google said a while back that hardware-accelerated video playback wouldn't be supported fully on the Linux version of Chrome? Apparently they don't completely trust Linux video drivers' reliability enough to enable it there. (source - https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/hardware-acceleration-chrome-linux)

The source article I linked mentions that some folks have come up with a patch to force hardware acceleration for Chrome, but it's not in the Chromium codebase for obvious reason.

I'm a complete noob. Is that "check disc for errors"? When I pick that, the computer reboots and goes back to boot loader. When I select " try...without installin" it loads and goes to a weird, glitches out red screen. I can see the pointer and desktop under this red "filter".

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/P4M800 Pro/P4M800 CE/VN800 Graphics [S3 UniChrome Pro] [1106:3344] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Gateway, Inc. Device [107b:0216]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort

sounds similar to this bug: https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57527

Yes, you can get one on Amazon. You may want to get one that can handle faster speeds if you have that type of connection. The one I linked only works on the 2.4 GHz band, so it will max out at about 100 Mbps. Just search "5 GHz USB wifi" on Amazon and you'll come up with a bunch of options. Just make sure to read the comments to see if it works with Linux, because some don't.

So you'll have to leave the dongle plugged in permanently to one USB port. It will take the place of your built-in Realtek RTL8821CE. It will allow you do everything you need to do with WiFi.

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