LXDE
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LXDE is a lightweight desktop environment that can be installed alongside your existing desktop environment, giving you the option of experimenting with LXDE, but having the safety of a desktop you know to fall back on (and a lot of that desktop's functionality available from within LXDE).
It is said that "XFCE is 200 mb and LXDE is about 30"[1] - clearly a big saving over the other major "lightweight but usable" desktop.
LXDE uses the Openbox window manager - boot options will include Openbox as well as LXDE, and Openbox alone will be even faster, but sometimes confusing, as the menu (accessible by right-clicking the desktop) is not complete, and many programs must be run from the terminal.
Users of Mandriva 2009.0 may have issues with LXDE, e.g.:
- no audio,
- no flash video,
- USB drives and external hard drive are not detected[1]
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Install
Either use MUD (links below) or install into another flavor of Mandriva with:
urpmi task-lxde
Footnotes
See also
External links
LXDE general sites
- Homepage
- Mandriva page on the LXDE wiki for details on installing and running LXDE with Mandriva.
Mandriva-specific
MUD:
