Have been using an LXLE bootable USB flash stick for a month. Like it very much. But have many questions and problems.

Come her for help because LXLE is related to Lubuntu.

My questions:
1. How to register a membership at LXLE forum?
My wife and I have tried six (6) time to register, all failed. Completing the registration form, a message saying that we would be notified. Never came any notification.
How can I register at LXLE forum, please?
2. Anywhere else can I get help for using LXLE, please?

Thank you.

You can ask here. What are your questions about LXLE and what problems have you encountered so far? Please describe your system a little including distro version and how you have installed it.

Yes, you can definitely ask here and we will try to help you. Just we need more details. But we can't help on the access to the LXLE forum, you need to contact the admins (probably they read this forum too).

Thank you.


"describe your system"
It is not a normal system, but some old parts put together on top of a bench as a setup which can run simple Linux distros.

LXLE bootable on a 2GB flash stick.
MB : G45T AM2 V:1.0
CPU: Intel Core2 Quad
PSU: Corsair RM650x,only 24pin, CPU, & optical drive cables.
RAM: DDR2 800 SDRAM 4G
BIOS:American Megatrends V.02.16
USB Flash stick: Imation USB2 2GB

"distro version"
Do no know. Downloaded a month ago from SourceForge.net.

"how you have installed it."
Made a bootable USB flash stick on a 2GB stick.

"What are your questions"
1.Google Chrome was installed and used for a week right after the LXLE bootable was made. But after the first shutdown, Google Chrome could not be installed.
How to install it again, please?
2.The size of panels or windows.
The bootable was first tried on a monitor screen size 3x4. Tried the bootable on another monitor which was 9x16. From this time on, all the panels or windows became 9x16.
How to adjust the size of the panels or windows to fit the monitor, please?
3.Cannot install LXLE.
Tried to install LXLE on a 16GB flash stick. The installer could find the stick and start installing on the stick, but at the of the installation it said that it could not find the HDD and the installation was failed.
How to install LXLE on a 16GB USB flash stick?

Thank you.

"Just we need more details."
There is not much tell about the details of my setup. It is not a normal system, but some old parts put together on top of a bench as a setup which can run simple Linux distros.

LXLE bootable on a 2GB flash stick.
MB : G45T AM2 V:1.0
CPU: Intel Core2 Quad
PSU: Corsair RM650x,only 24pin, CPU, & optical drive cables.
RAM: DDR2 800 SDRAM 4G
BIOS:American Megatrends V.02.16
USB Flash stick: Imation USB2 2GB

Downloaded LXLE a month ago from SourceForge.net and made it a bootable on a USB flash stick on. Have been running this bootable ever since.

Regarding LXLE forum, have no idea what went wrong. The problem could be at my end, the notifications were intercepted by authorities.

I don't really understand. Did you install it onto an usb stick or a hdd, or is it just a live cd? (which means you can boot it and use it without installation).
If it is a normal install you do not need to reinstall chrome (or anything else), it should be available.
If it was a live cd you need to reinstall it every time you boot, but in this case the installation is exactly the same every time. You will lose all your settings.
The monitor is usually automatically detected (during boot), but it looks like it remembered your first settings. (it should mean it is not a live cd). In such cases you need to remove the config file, most probably there is a file named xorg.conf somewhere. You just need to remove it and reboot.
About the installation: I have no idea, probably the 16GB is not enough, but without details hard to say more.

Thank you.

"Did you install it onto an usb stick or a hdd, or is it just a live cd?"
The LXLE was downloaded as an ISO file, then was made a live USB bootable by PowerISO. Not a live CD.

"(which means you can boot it and use it without installation)."
Yes. I have been running it this for a month.

"If it is a normal install you do not need to reinstall chrome (or anything else), it should be available."
At the moment, it is not installed, just a live USB stick. I do not know whether the live USB is a normal install.
No. The LXLE I downloaded had no Google Chrome. I could download it, Chrome for Linus, and install it and use it for a week at first, but could not install it after the first shutdown. Every time I tried to install Chrome, a red colour message saying, Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libu2f-udev.

"If it was a live cd you need to reinstall it every time you boot, but in this case the installation is exactly the same every time. You will lose all your settings."
No, it no a CD. It is a live USB flash stick. It looks like this: The first time it boots, it uploads all the files to RAM. If the OS is shutdown, it has to do the same. Yes, all settings are lost. The OS has to upload all files to RAM again. So far, I do not shut it down but suspend it. All the settings remain the same on the nest start.

"The monitor is usually automatically detected (during boot), but it looks like it remembered your first settings. (it should mean it is not a live cd)."
It is not a live CD, it is a live USB flash stick. Does it make any difference whether it is a live CD or a live USB flash stick? All I learnt from the internet is that a live USB flash stick runs faster than a live CD.
The fist monitor was a 3x4, the second one was a 9x16. It remembers the 9x16 and shows 9x16 on a 3x4 monitor screen.

"a file named xorg.conf somewhere."
Do you have any clew where it might be?

"About the installation: I have no idea, probably the 16GB is not enough,"
LXLE required 8.6GB free space for installation. A 16GB flash stick has enough free space for the installation.

Really appreciate your help.

live cd and live usb flash disk is almost the same (from this point of view). What is definitely new now: you did not shut down your host, but suspend (I'm not really sure what does it really mean, but definitely different). That is important.
When you wake up your system from that suspended state it will (theoretically) continue where is was before, so there is no need to reinstall anything. But in that case it will definitely remember your video settings too. If you change your monitor you need to force the system to detect it and reconfigure itself. That probably means you need to restart your X server (interesting, nowadays this X server can do that automatically, but probably it is a simplified version). I don't know where can you find this xorg.conf on your host, here you can find some additional info about it: https://www.x.org/releases/current/d...g.conf.5.xhtml

This libu2f-udev issue should be solved by the lxle team, or you need to use another version of chrome. Probably it was only a temporary problem. As a workaround you may try another browser.

Thank you.

Appreciate the link. Browsed through and found myself confused. Does think I am able to deal with that at this stage, an ignorant of Linux.

"As a workaround you may try another browser."
In fact, the Librewolf is very good. It can do almost everything as Google Chrome. It is just because I am used to Chrome.

Except for the problem of installation, the issues as the monitor and Google Chrome might vanish by themselves if a new LXLE live bootable flash stick is made and replace the one currently in use. This is what I think, not I know. It is not difficult to make the bootable stick. But for learning, I would like to find out the why and how.

I guess you need to shut down properly and reboot again, that would be enough to detect the new monitor, just in that case you need to reinstall your browser. (there is no need to replace that flash stick).

Next time some one asks for computer specs, distro version, etc.

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Thank you.

"shut down properly and reboot again,"
Have done this many times.

Ok, just it is not enough information to help you. First you told you suspended your host. So now I'm a bit confused.

Would be nice to handle one single case at a time (or in one thread). That makes the things easier.

Thank you.

Sorry. I am literally a newbie to anything of Linux. First time tough it. Everything is new and strange to me. I really do not know how to use the code. Appreciate anyway.

open a terminal. This is a window where you can enter your own commands. the command suggested was: inxi -Fxz
copy it as it is (keeping spaces and other things without any changes) and finally press enter. The terminal (or better to say the shell inside) will execute that command and you will see the result/answer in the same window.
This is an introduction: https://www.digitalocean.com/communi...linux-terminal

(otherwise I would say that there is nothing wrong with that, everyone has to start somewhere, as usual you have to learn to use what you have).