Monitors resolution used to be set properly during a live system testing and/or the hard drive installation. In some cases, some monitors settings have to be fixed manually. This short tutorial lets you set it right. 1. As the first step, check what exact resolution of your monitor is offered by the monitor producer. 2. … Read more
I have upgraded all Sparky editions on my machine this week. All of them went well, but ‘systemd’ has been installed automatically. It’s time to switch from ‘sysvinit’ to ‘systemd’ now. ‘sysvinit’ is an older version of init system used in Debian based systems. From Wikipedia: ‘init (short for initialization) is the first process started … Read more
Out of date! The latest Sparky MATE edition has been shipped with MATE 1.6. If you’d like to upgrade it up to the newest version, simply follow a few steps. Edit the repository list (as root): su nano /etc/apt/sources.list Change the line below from: deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/debian jessie main to: deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/archive/1.8/debian/ jessie main Refresh the … Read more
The second testing iso image of SparkyLinux 3.3.2-test2 Base Edition is out. The last week brought some solutions for bugs which have been found in the previous release of 3.3.2-test1. We have found a solution after a set of tests we made in a virtual environment. The present version of the installer got bugs … Read more
Today system’s upgrading will make some changes. Using ‘network-manager-gnome’ tool as a default network manager can make some problems in LXDE Sparky desktop. ‘network-manager-gnome’ depends of ‘network-manager’ which depends of ‘libpam-systemd’, which depends of ‘systemd’. So upgrading ‘network-manager-gnome’ will install ‘systemd’ as default. It doesn’t make a problem on all Sparky desktops excluding LXDE. It … Read more