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"I try to run synaptic from system tools, and it asks a password in live-cd it wouldn't have ask the password" Using PcManFM navigate to /usr/share/applications Open the folder as Root (Tools > Open Current Folder as Root) Right click on Synaptic Package Manager and select Leafpad Modify: ...

In terminal type: sudo visudo Enter password if requested. Add this line at the end (change “mike” to your username): mike ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL Ctrl-X, Y for yes, and then Enter to leave and save your changes, and you're done! Next time you use sudo command it will not ask you for password. See a...

I tried doing this, but got an error message because of that "RANDOM" command thing. Is there anything special I need to do to make it work proper? Did you remember to make the rotator.sh file executable? (Right click on the rotator.sh file, properties, permissions and tick "make the ...

I can't seem to find the article that gives instructions on how to create a script to rotate the wallpaper so I will try to give you instructions here. Create a wallpaper.desktop file using leafpad with the following text. Modify the last line to match your user name ....../home/YOUR_USER_NAME/........

Lubuntu 11.10 is my choice and I have tried a bunch of them. A pure LXDE without all of the gnome 2 garbage you have left over when installing LXDE over another *buntu. The speed differential on a netbook is amazing when you compare Win7 and Lubuntu running on the same machine. WIn7 uses over half o...

Ive been trying to figure this our forever. How do you change the splash screen in Lubuntu? Ive tried all the Ubuntu methods to do it, but they are Gnome specific and dont work with LXDE. Anybody? The one at the login screen? or the one before that? The Grub2 background and text colors can be chang...

I think that the problem is that my video devices arent found early enough in the boot process. According to /etc/init/plymouth-splash.conf if the video device isnt found, it resorts to the text boot splash, which I think is what Im seeing. So....the question becomes how do I get my video devices d...