LXDE finally has its own display manager, lxdm, and doesn’t need to rely on GDM or KDM from now on.
To see is to believe.
Recently, a new developer dgod from China joined us and contributed a new project, lxdm, a lightweight display manager aimed to replace gdm. Later, I modified his code, and re-implement the UI [...]
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LXDM – New Display Manager
xkb: New Applet for LXPanel
PCMan has added a new branch named lxpanel-xkb in the LXDE Repository.
svn co https://lxde.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lxde/branches/lxpanel-xkb
It’s a new applet for lxpanel which will be a keyboard layout switcher. The original one in lxpanel is broken, and will be removed. The new one will be based on libxlavier, a good library handling xkb. However, we’re from Taiwan, and [...]
Making LXDE packages at Coding for Fun in Beijing
I am meeting up with some folks from the Beijing Linux User Group at Coding for fun at the Thiz Linux office in Beijing.
It is great to see how dedicated everyone is. eMBee is teaching Guang Yudong how to actually create packages. Besides that we have Zhang Sen working on his Google Summer of Code [...]
LXDE on OpenSolaris
Alfred Peng from Wuhan, China started to port LXDE to OpenSolaris. I met him in Singapore and could see how it is running already pretty smoothly.
Since it’s a GTK based desktop environment, some of the applications (pcmanfm, lxpanel, lxappearance, lxlauncher etc.) can be easily built and installed. But some still don’t work. The network manager [...]
LXDE Meeting in Shenzhen – Video
There is now a video online of the gathering with the Shenzhen Linux User Group and our discussion about Open Source and LXDE provided from Zhang Le. Thanks a lot!
Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9072456269136280272
Avi-Link: http://www.gentoo-cn.org/~zhangle/szlug/mario_lxde_20081122.avi
Linux User Group Shenzhen (Szlug) Meeting and Presentation of LXDE
I had a fantastic meeting with the Linux User Group in Shenzhen, which is just on the border to Hong Kong and seat of some famous technology companies such as Huawei and Tencent (QQ). The Shenzhen Linux User Group (Szlug) is one of the biggest Linux User Groups in Asia and has currently 480 [...]
