It’s well known and well documented that our session manager LXSession Lite suppport the autostart freedesktop.org specs. However, autostart spec is a term for developers and it’s meaningless for our end users. Basically, it provides a way to automatically start some applications after login.
Now this can (partially) be configured through a simple GUI – LXSession [...]
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LXSession Edit – Configure what’s automatically started in LXDE.
GPicView video of the standard picture viewer of LXDE
This video by maces presents GPicView the standard picture viewer developed by the LXDE team.
Installation in Debian, Ubuntu and other distributions:
pacman -Sy gpicview
Features
Extremely lightweight and fast with low memory usage
Very suitable for default image viewer of desktop system
Simple and intuitive interface
Minimal lib dependency: Only pure GTK+ is used
Desktop independent: Doesn’t [...]
LXTask video of the standard LXDE task manager and system monitor
Another video of an LXDE component by Maces. LXTask is the standard task manager and system monitor of LXDE. It starts via Ctrl+Alt+Del and is extremely lightweight.
YouTube: http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruk6rjAIyRQ
Maces Blogpost with German Video: http://www.maces-net.de/2008/10/07/kurzvorstellung-lxtask/
LXTask auf Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?gro…
LXTask in the LXDE Wiki: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTask
PCMan presentation at OpenTechSummit 2008 in Taiwan
The presentation of the main developer of LXDE, PCMan, at the OpenTechSummit 2008 in Taiwan is now available on the OpenTechWiki and on Google Video.
LXDE with 3D desktop effects
Thomas Kross aka captagon from the LXDE Sid Edition has posted some nice screenshots of LXDE with Compiz and 3D effects. Even though this makes LXDE a bit slower, it is a proof that these effects can work well on low end computers. I hope the LXDE developers find a way to speed up compiz [...]
PCManFM: PCMan File Manager Video by Maces
Maces has made a number of videos presenting some of the core components of LXDE. The videos are in English. Additionally he produced a German version for each component. The first video is about the LXDE Filemanager, PCManFM.
PCMan File Manager (PCManFM) is a file manager application developed by Hong Jen Yee from Taiwan which is [...]
