Archive for May 17th, 2008

LXDE small presentation

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

LXDE is a lightweight desktop environment, from Taiwan a few enthusiastic Linux / open source enthusiasts development, including PCMan, Fred and so on. Linux goal is to provide a fast, simple, but still functional enough Freedesktop.org comply with the requirements of the desktop environment, the desktop environment, such as GNOME, KDE, and so on, the hardware requirements of high, especially in this Eee PC Low-standard small computer, running full desktop mode (KDE) is really hard, so if we can change LXDE, hardware can play better, more up-to-date and even the "easy mode" types of user interfaces are beginning to develop. LXDE environment has now contains (LXDE Web site posted from): PCManFM: File manager, provides desktop icon LXPanel: Feature-rich desktop panel LXSession: Standard-compliant X11 session manager with shutdown / reboot / suspend supports via HAL and gdm LXAppearance: LXAppearance is a new feature-rich GTK + theme switcher able to ...