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Lubuntu is an official Ubuntu flavor. It and the default applications included use minimal resources. As of the 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" release, Lubuntu is an official Ubuntu derivative. Lubuntu uses the Openbox window manager. Until and including 18.04 "Bionic Beaver" Lubuntu used the LXDE desktop environment, but releases from 18.10 on use LXQt.

Lubuntu is an official Ubuntu flavor (since 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot") known for using less resources and, for the most part, the default applications are "lighter" than those found in Ubuntu. It uses the Openbox window manager and the LXDE (until 18.04 "Bionic Beaver) or LXQt (from 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" on) desktop environment.

While the distribution was originally designed for old hardware, it has since refocused to providing a lightweight experience on modern devices. (Source)

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vboxdrv.sh: failed: modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why

I am having problems running VirtualBox on my Ubuntu laptop. My laptop is dual boot, and running (Windows 10 - I think, haven't used it in years), as well as Ubuntu 16.0.4 LTS. I have secure boot enabled on the BIOS settings of my laptop. I am…
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python installed in ubuntu but python command not found

I have installed python 2.7 and python 3.7 in my ubuntu 18.04 but when i type python it shows Command 'python' not found, but can be installed with: sudo apt install python3 sudo apt install python sudo apt install…
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Which Lubuntu website is the correct one?

There are two totally different websites offering Lubuntu: https://lubuntu.net https://lubuntu.me What is their difference?
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Lighter in CPU/Memory Usage: Lubuntu or Xubuntu

I am looking for an Ubuntu version that consumes less Memory and CPU. I have read both Lubuntu and Xubuntu (The homepages, wikipedia, phoronix and other sites comparing both). But from experience, which one uses less memory and is less CPU…
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How to add startup applications in lubuntu?

Is there a 'Startup applications' app for lubuntu? Or how do I add apps to startup? I attempted a tutorial to add entries to ~/.config/autostart, but it did not work. Isn't there an easy way? Any ideas please?
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What is "Unlock keyring" and how do I get rid of it?

(In my case this message never appeared before installing Ubuntu One - see this question). Can I use Ubuntu One and avoid being prompted each time like this? I use Lubuntu 12.04. Edit: After exchanging comments I add the supplementary info: I am…
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Wrong fs type bad option bad superblock Just installed Lubuntu 24.04

I have just clean installed Lubuntu 24.04 LTS from Lubuntu downloads to my HP 255 G1 laptop. Now I cannot access my external hard drive. Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at/media/name/Transcend: wrong fs type,bad option,bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,missing…
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Grub menu at boot time... "holding shift" not working

I read here at this thread that holding Shift during boot can bring up the GRUB menu. However I try holding one or the other Shift keys, tapping, tapping then holding, nothing works. Am I missing something? How does one access the GRUB menu during…
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How to change priorities of x-www-browser?

I'm on 15.04 64 bit Lubuntu and I downloaded chrome from their website, because it can be useful at times, but I want to keep firefox as my default browser and despite having put it as default browser it still doesn't run when I execute…
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couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

Fresh install of Lubuntu Installed updates from synaptic Installed wine and components from synaptic, upon what I assume is completion it popped this error code. Is it something I should rush to fix?
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Fresh install of lubuntu synaptic is missing the search box in the tool bar

A complete new install of lubuntu 11.10 [...17.10] has synaptic 0.75.2ubuntu7 [...0.84.2]. Previously when using synaptic on another system there was a search box in the tool bar where a search string could be entered which would reduce the…
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How to change keyboard layout in Lubuntu 15.10?

I have recently upgraded my PC from Lubuntu 14.10 to 15.10. Before the upgrade my keyboard layout matched my Danish keyboard. But after the upgrade I probably have a standard English/US layout. Preferences/Language Support, doesn't let me configure…
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How to install Guest Additions in Lubuntu 13.04

I downloaded virtualbox-4.2_4.2.12-84980~Ubuntu~raring_i386.deb (63.9 MB) and Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.12-84980.vbox-extpack (11.6 MB) from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads. I installed VBox on my laptop (Dell 1545…
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VirtualBox shared folders are owned by root in Lubuntu guest

My Setup is as follows - Host: Ubuntu Server 14.04 Guest: Lubuntu Desktop 15.10 I have shared dirs on host to guest with automount option, and the directories show up in Guest OS's just fine - /media/sf_sharename Also, the user of guest is added to…
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How to stop screen going black after 10 min

My OS is Lubuntu 13.04. After 10 mins of inactivity the screen goes black. What I did to stop it without effect: uninstalled xscreensaver completely in power setting I set to never blank the screen run some command found in the internet with "xset"…
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