Help Manual Suggestions wanted

[LL-user]

OK, will do in the future for issues.

Suggestions I'll still post here for discussion. Like the following one

Greatest improvement for the already outstanding Help Manual I would consider the implementation of a search functionality.

[Valtam]

OK, will do in the future for issues.

Suggestions I'll still post here for discussion. Like the following one

Greatest improvement for the already outstanding Help Manual I would consider the implementation of a search functionality.

You can submit that as an Issue on Github. I would then label it as an 'enhancement'. I've previously looked at ways to include an offline search function in the Help Manual. I'm willing to entertain suggestions for a solution. It has to be offline as the Help Manual still needs to be searched if someones internet connection goes down.

[LL-user]

done

[mookie]

FYI, here's a page that explains step-by-step how aptosid uses "recoll" indexer to achieve an offline search for their user manual

h t t p : / / manual.aptosid.com/en/manual-search-en.htm

[Valtam]

FYI, here's a page that explains step-by-step how aptosid uses "recoll" indexer to achieve an offline search for their user manual

h t t p : / / manual.aptosid.com/en/manual-search-en.htm

Thanks mookie, I'll take a look.

[bitsnpcs]

Keyboard shortcuts to close a software window, to reduce a software and show the desktop (where the software covers the taskbar desktop icon).

The link to xfcelook in mouse theme section needs updating.

[montylfp]

Had an embarrassing thing happen to me today. Long story short, I attempted to get Samba operating for use on a Windows 10 machine. I followed this tutorial in your help manual to the letter:

https://www.freecinema2022.gq/manual/network.html#shares

After that, I could see the machine over my LAN on the Windows 10 machine, but simply could not access it, with Windows throwing me error messages about being unable to access. After much furious Googling and tearing my hair out, a thought occurred to me that should have hours before: What if the Linux Lite firewall is interfering?

As luck would have it, that was it. I disabled it real quick and suddenly everything worked.

I'm an intermediate-level user (though I guess not because this didn't occur to me sooner), but a beginner might not realize to check for firewall settings. I think some mention of the firewall on this page would be a good idea so that others don't have issues like I did.

TL;DR: Please add some mention of the firewall in the Networking section of the guide, at least in regards to the Samba sharing configuration section. I think it would greatly benefit certain users, as out-of-the-box this feature will not function with the default firewall settings.

P.S. Whenever a not-too-Linux-or-otherwise-computer-savvy person needs a non-Windows OS, I invariably suggest using this. I've met some real computer illiterates who could use this without issue. I've even considered using this myself full-time once or twice. Thank you for all your hard work, I hope this small suggestion can help.

[Valtam]

Thanks, I'll add a note about the Firewall to the next version of the Help Manual.

[m654321]

Jerry, I've already posted this suggestion elsewhere.

There exist published paperback guides for Ubuntu and  Linux Mint - you can find them on Amazon.com.  Please could LL also do this. At least some of us (maybe many..?) would prefer a hard copy of the Manual. There are too many pages to print out (200 to 300)

A paperback copy on Amazon would be another way of advertizing LL, getting it out there to the general public.  Obviously, any profits from the sale of this could then be ploughed back in for LL development.

Maybe to check the level of interest of such a project, you could do a forum survey ...

Many thanks for reading this
Mike

[Valtam]

[member=458]m654321[/member], I have seen your suggestion previously. Simply put, I don't have the time to undertake a project of that magnitude. If someone would like to take it on, I'd be more than happy to reimburse them. Cheers.