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LXDE on ARM architectures: Sharp Zaurus
The LXDE project is pushing its way onto the market for mobile devices and ARM architectures. LXDE is now available for Sharp Zaurus in a specialized Ubuntu Linux distribution (Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron) called “Zubuntu”. Zubuntu is developed by hacker Omegamoon and can be booted (mostly) from flash memory. The Zubuntu project was inspired by […]
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LXPanel 0.4.0 beta2 released
PCMan released LXPanel 0.4.0 beta2. This is the last beta release before LXPanel 0.4 stable release. Please get it heavily tested. http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/LXPanel Major changes: * Fix icon display problems under 64-bit systems. * Fixes to work with minimization animation provided by window manager. * Fix RTL problems of the task list. * Launch console applications […]
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New download page for LXDE
Mwei in Taiwan and me (Mario) in Germany have set up a new download page for LXDE on http://download.lxde.org. The page currently features a Live-CD version and USB version of pud, which was put together by Penk, who is also a LXDE contributor from Taiwan. LXDE/PUD GNU/Linux is an Ubuntu-based mini distribution based on LXDE. […]
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Translate *.po files with Poedit
Many of you wanted to help translating LXDE but only a few know how to do this, until now. Here is a description on how to help translating the components of LXDE. You can also view this article in the Wiki: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/How_to_translate_LXDE_components (generally) http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Translate_*.po_files_with_Poedit (Poedit specific)
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Launchpad or Transifex? What is the best system for LXDE?
With the increase of LXDE components and the ongoing development of LXDE the need for a better translation system has increased. We discussed different option in this forum here: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=35 We have set up a vote for you to cast which system and solution you prefer. Please vote in this forum: http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=163 There are three […]
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LXMusic – Minimalist xmms2-based music player
Everyone loves screenshots! LXMusic – The minimalist music player for LXDE. This is based on xmms2, which is lightweight and has server/client design. The user interface is quite simple, clean, and intuitive. At first glance, it looks similar to my favorite player on Windows – foobar 2000. LXMusic only has very few features, and it […]
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LXDE Translation Project
We are starting the LXDE translation project. Please join the LXDE translation team now! Help translating LXDE into different languages. Join us improving the documentation and resources around LXDE. It is the aim of the LXDE team and community to give access to information to people with less powerful hardware. Many did not have the […]
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Recent Status of LXDE
Actually, the LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) project had rested for some time. Though we’re getting more and more people to join us since Linux World Expo 2008, LXDE have no much improvements since July this year. It’s happened due to our main developers didn’t have time to write new code, PCMan took time to […]
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LXPanel 0.4.0 beta! Testers are needed!
We haven’t have new releases of LXPanel for quite a long time, but the development is still ongoing. Major Changes: * Greatly rewrite application menu with our new menu-cache library. Now it’s complete and more user-friendly * Improved “Run” dialog * Improved OSS volume plugin * Image showed on application menu button can be changed […]
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LXShortcut – easy way to edit application shortcuts
A new component, LXShortcut, is added yesterday. It’s a small utility used to edit application shortcuts. Now editing of application shortcuts become quite easy.