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Found the Demon. In the Compiz Config Settings Manager, magnifier was enabled. The combo keys "<super>m" initiates it and pressing the combo again terminates it.
Thank you friends and leaders who...

Hello friends! Hope you all are well.

This now happened thrice in three years. So a solution is sought for,

Every time, upon accidental keypress (still don't know which), this magnifier became...

Since I use the earlier version, I shall try once. Thank you for your links and suggestions. Also, in the meanwhile I shall try identifying the mischief-making program drawing that window and making...

Thank you, szzsqing1, for your informative post.Your sharing of your own experience really helped.
I haven't checked, as I use persistent always. I will, in the coming days, and post my...

Yes, friends, I know that I would immediately be advised to upgrade to the latest knoppix. But currently I have some additional packages installed as a persistent set up which would need time to be...

Thank you, Thrifty, for replying to my thread in order to help me. I would like to quote my first post on this thread: And I had added further that: So I was not looking for Libre Office Draw or...

I forgot the package name, which resulted in my present desperation. I used the package but not frequently. The name simply dropped out of my mind. It was a Qt-frontend. But you have helped enough...

Ah, thank you! I thought I would never receive a reply to my query. For your kind information (though you may not need it, but other users might be interested) the Knoppix 7.2.0 had a PDF editing...

Good morning, dear members.
I can no longer find the list of files on the Knoppix 7.2.0 DVD accessible from: -> DVD (~3500 software packages, over 9GB uncompressed, cloop-compressed to 4GB)
The...

To,
Prof. Klaus Knopper and Team Knoppix,

The general direction in debian for accessing internet through the wlan interface is here:
5.6.6. The basics of wireless LAN interface and further.
...

Most of my illustrious Team Members didn't perhaps notice a minor problem with Knoppix 8.6.1. It is regarding non-functioning Bluetooth device, particularly, package bluetooth-manager blueman.This is...

Unique GPUs/Graphics cards need Linux drivers. Could be downloaded from the website of the Nvidia website, Debian section.
Have you read all sections of cheat codes and tried them, using the init 3...

ntpdate is now deprecated, advised 'sntp', but how to automate its running during each session startup?

Currently, have to run:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/ntp start
on a terminal after startup to keep...

We are grateful to you for continuing to release a wonderfully utilitarian OS cum fully functional system ISO for more than a decade at least, when nothing is permanent in this fleeting world. Your...

[Solved] Use apt-get update as a super-user to have synaptic working

Thank you for the information.
Debian has also released a Stretch 9.12 as a security update.
Already downloaded and using Knoppix 8.6.1. It won't be feasible to download the latest release....

As usual I use unpacked KNOPPIX_V8.6.1-2019-10-14-EN.iso and booted with Grub to create a persistent system. In general, I have long been using synaptic to install additional software persistent...

Hello, Winger9, kindly accept my wellwishes.
Have you searched exhaustively the forum threads?

Appears not to.
rsyslog writes some files in /var/log/ folder such as:
auth.log
syslog
daemon.log
kern.log
user.log
and so on.

None of the files are available. But rsyslog package exists.

/KNOPPIX/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00knoppix has the correct mention:

// Debian/stretch is the "stable" release in this version of KNOPPIX!


The following two binaries contain the string:
(1)...

The above sources.list has not been updated for a long time since squeeze.

The Chronology of Debian releases are:
bo/ 1998-12-08 22:17 -
hamm/ 1999-02-15 19:59 -
slink/ ...

This is the sources.list for 8.2:


# Debian/Squeeze is the stable base for this installation
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ oldstable main contrib non-free
deb...

In the middle the release Repository List has changed.
Now:
stretch→ oldstable
Buster→ stable
bullseye→ testing
sid→ unstable
experimental

So should I restructure the repository list?

In fact, this is easier than it appears!

I used Debian lxde Live Stretch 9.11.0 DVD, made an exact copy of it on the USB pendrive. Used that drive to install Debian Stretch 9.11.0 on the HDD.
...

Question (1): How to install Knoppix from USB PenDrive to HDD on a laptop with Win10 pre-installed?

A used laptop received with only Win10 installed. My need is to install Knoppix and Debian and...