Re: [lubuntu-users] lubuntu

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 18:22:28 -0700, Mark F wrote:
>It seemed like my hard-drive became physically damaged due to the
>install.

If so, then the hard drive already was close to the end of life before
you installed Lubuntu. It would have failed without installing
Lubuntu, too.

Btw. a complete Windows XP backup could only be restored, if the same
hardware is used. If you need to replace a hard disk by another one
(usually you don't get the same hard disk you bought years ago), a
restored Windows XP won't run anymore.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] lubuntu

[Nio Wiklund]

Den 2017-09-09 kl. 04:11, skrev Aere Greenway:

On 09/08/2017 07:22 PM, Mark F wrote:
On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Aere Greenway 
> wrote:
>>> The last time I had problems with dual booting was back in 12.04 
days,


It's been a while since I tried to do that. But, I had the weirdest 
problems. It seemed like my hard-drive became physically damaged due 
to the install. I've seen reports like that. But, they seemed rare. 
But, it happened to me twice over 7-8 years.


I got to the point I dreaded it. But, it's been 2-3 years. (I remember 
I had to run boot-repair that last time.).


I would definitely back up.





Mark:

I'm sorry to hear of the problems you had.

I hope, however, that things have improved now.  I can't speak for your 
system, but it has been working for mine.


This sort of thing is the reason I have two system partitions for my 
production systems.


I install into the old (now unused) partition, and can still boot from 
the partition I was using before the install.


In the new system, I can copy data (including hidden (dot) files) from 
the prior partition into the /home directory of the newly installed 
system.  And that copy is a fast copy (unlike it would be from an 
external hard-drive).


When I am satisfied that the new system meets my needs, I just use it, 
and stop using my former system, and it will be installed-into when a 
newer system is needed months later.


But lately, for production systems, I usually just upgrade.  That has 
been working well for me in the past 6 or so years.


If the upgrade fails, I can install into another partition, and copy my 
/home directory files from the partition that failed the upgrade, into 
the newly-installed partition.


At least, that's what has been working for me.

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Hi Aere,

Thanks for sharing your method with two system partitions :-)

Best regards
Nio

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Re: [lubuntu-users] lubuntu

[Aere Greenway]

On 09/08/2017 07:22 PM, Mark F wrote:
On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Aere Greenway 
> wrote:
>>> The last time I had problems with dual booting was back in 12.04 
days,


It's been a while since I tried to do that. But, I had the weirdest 
problems. It seemed like my hard-drive became physically damaged due 
to the install. I've seen reports like that. But, they seemed rare. 
But, it happened to me twice over 7-8 years.


I got to the point I dreaded it. But, it's been 2-3 years. (I remember 
I had to run boot-repair that last time.).


I would definitely back up.





Mark:

I'm sorry to hear of the problems you had.

I hope, however, that things have improved now.  I can't speak for your 
system, but it has been working for mine.


This sort of thing is the reason I have two system partitions for my 
production systems.


I install into the old (now unused) partition, and can still boot from 
the partition I was using before the install.


In the new system, I can copy data (including hidden (dot) files) from 
the prior partition into the /home directory of the newly installed 
system.  And that copy is a fast copy (unlike it would be from an 
external hard-drive).


When I am satisfied that the new system meets my needs, I just use it, 
and stop using my former system, and it will be installed-into when a 
newer system is needed months later.


But lately, for production systems, I usually just upgrade.  That has 
been working well for me in the past 6 or so years.


If the upgrade fails, I can install into another partition, and copy my 
/home directory files from the partition that failed the upgrade, into 
the newly-installed partition.


At least, that's what has been working for me.

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Re: [lubuntu-users] lubuntu

[Mark F]

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Aere Greenway 
 wrote:
>>> The last time I had problems with dual booting was back in 12.04 days,

It's been a while since I tried to do that. But, I had the weirdest
problems. It seemed like my hard-drive became physically damaged due to the
install. I've seen reports like that. But, they seemed rare. But, it
happened to me twice over 7-8 years.

I got to the point I dreaded it. But, it's been 2-3 years. (I remember I
had to run boot-repair that last time.).

I would definitely back up.
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Re: [lubuntu-users] lubuntu

[George]

"# Rhythm"
 wrote:

>my pc configuration is:
>pentinum 4(2.88 Ghz Speed)
>1GB Ram
>150 GB Hard disk
>I wanna dual boot win xp and lubuntu, I wanna make sure that my pc
>will work properly...!
>any advice...???

Lubuntu should work quite well on your machine.  Lubuntu has very
good hardware detection, generally requires less disk space than
Windows and uses less in resources (CPU and memory).

I did something similar with my old Thinkpad T41 (Win7 and
Lubuntu 16.04 LTS).  The simplest way to do this is to let the
Lubuntu installer will allow you to resize the WinXP partition,
install Lubuntu in two extended partitions (/ [root] and swap).
Grub (boot manager) installs by default and is updated with any
kernel updates.

In preparation, you should optimize and back up the WinXP
partition, then settle on a size that will allow for reasonable
use.  Also, a hardware inventory would be useful in the rare
event that the installer can't sort out the hardware.

Good hunting.


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Re: [lubuntu-users] lubuntu

[Aere Greenway]

On 09/08/2017 12:56 PM, Mark F wrote:
I have never had good luck with dual boot. It seems like after all 
these years the GRUB (etc.) would be perfected. But, *every* time I've 
tried it I've had nothing but trouble. I always have to run the 
"boot-repair" tool. I would lean toward a 2nd drive and selectively 
booting it (maybe an external drive?). But, maybe my aversion to 
dual-boot is just me. I might be making too much out of it. The 
linuxquestions forum might provide more help because there's more 
people there with the same generic Ubuntu questions, etc.


I am surprised (but certainly believe you) on hearing your problems with 
dual boot.


Personally, I have multiple partitions on all of my machines, and never 
have problems with dual booting, both on PC and Mac machines.  There 
must be something I've learned to be careful about doing, so I don't run 
into the problems you experienced.


The last time I had problems with dual booting was back in 12.04 days, 
where GRUB had problems recognizing other OS's on the drive.


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Re: [lubuntu-users] lubuntu

[Mark F]

You're probably seeking more detailed how-to instructions. But, if you plan
to install Lubuntu on the same drive as Windows, I would download the
"Clonezilla Live" .iso file, burn it to CD (or to a USB thumb/flash drive
using the free unetbootin tool). Boot from that, and make an image copy of
the entire drive. If something goes wrong with your dual boot, you should
be able to boot Clonezilla and restore that copy back to the drive.

I have never had good luck with dual boot. It seems like after all these
years the GRUB (etc.) would be perfected. But, *every* time I've tried it
I've had nothing but trouble. I always have to run the "boot-repair" tool.
I would lean toward a 2nd drive and selectively booting it (maybe an
external drive?). But, maybe my aversion to dual-boot is just me. I might
be making too much out of it. The linuxquestions forum might provide more
help because there's more people there with the same generic Ubuntu
questions, etc.

Mark

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 9:07 PM, # Rhythm  wrote:

> my pc configuration is:
> pentinum 4(2.88 Ghz Speed)
> 1GB Ram
> 150 GB Hard disk
> I wanna dual boot win xp and lubuntu, I wanna make sure that my pc
> will work properly...!
> any advice...✌✌✌
>
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Re: [lubuntu-users] Start menu

[Ralf Mardorf]

Hi,

is a panel running?

  pgrep -a panel

I suspect Lubuntu does use the openbox window manager and perhaps (not
necessarily) the openbox autostart file. If so, take a look at the
autostart file.

  cat ~/.config/openbox/autostart

If a panel should run, but it doesn't run or it runs, but should be
invisible, are there any related messages in ~/.xsession-errors ?

  less ~/.xsession-errors

Assuming the panel should be lxpanel, take a look at the subdirectories
and files in the parent directory ~/.config/lxpanel/ , e.g.

  less ~/.config/lxpanel/default/panels/*
 ^^^
 or any other profile name

see

  ls -hAl ~/.config/lxpanel/

What happens if you launch the panel from command line?

  killall -9 lxpanel ; sleep 2 ; lxpanel

  killall -9 lxpanel ; sleep 2 ; lxpanel --profile name_of_a_profile

Regards,
Ralf

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[Marcos Di matteo]

Hola, tengo lubuntu en mi computadora y no me permite descargar apps de la
tienda ni inatalar apks de internet. Espero que me puedan ayudar.
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[lubuntu-users] Start menu

[Ove Andersson]

Hello!

I have Lubuntu 16.04 and by default Lubuntu should have one panel at 
start but in my caset there is no panel at all. I have checked that 
Lubuntus customized LXDE and vanilla LXDE are installed. Why dont the 
start up panel appears ?


Regards Ove




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[lubuntu-users] lubuntu

[# Rhythm]

my pc configuration is:
pentinum 4(2.88 Ghz Speed)
1GB Ram
150 GB Hard disk
I wanna dual boot win xp and lubuntu, I wanna make sure that my pc
will work properly...!
any advice...✌✌✌

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