Sven Killig has managed to run LXDE on his Nexus One in a USB host mode. He has made a video showing how all kinds of devices plugged in – including a web cam, keyboards, screens and a display link unit.
Connect USB devices to your Nexus One
Hardware
Nexus One
Micro USB OTG cable (e.g.)
USB Dual Power [...]
Today, new alpha releases of PCManFM and libfm were made.
Again, let me show you the screenshot first.
Here are highlights of this release:
Auto-mount for removable devices and and “Auto-run” dialog. (Finally we have this!)
Support ‘menu://applications/’ to show installed applications in pcmanfm. (needs lxmenu-data) (reported to be a little bit buggy?)
Support ‘menu://applications/DesktopSettings/’ to show configuration tools. [...]
LXMusic 0.4.3 was released by Jürgen Hötzel.
Most important changes include:
* Adopt XMMS2 DrNo 0.7 API changes
* Fix a double free (on_playback_track_loaded)
* Translation updates
Please help to advance LXDE development and test releases, help with translations and update the wiki.
Links:
* Git Repository: http://lxde.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lxde/lxmusic
* LXMusic in the LXDE Wiki: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXMusic
* LXDE Translation Project: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Category:Translations
The Fedora 12 LXDE spin turns out to be a huge success. It only took us 8 days to become number #2 in the most popular Fedora Spins, although the other spins were released two weeks before LXDE. As I’m writing this post, we had more than 2500 complete BitTorrent downloads.
Julian Lavergne from France posted ways to get involved into lubuntu on the mailing list of the project and I am reposting his suggestions here.
This is a quick summarize for people wanted to help on Lubuntu. In general, all tasks will be documented on the Subteams pages:
Packages and Code: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/SubTeams/CodingAndPackagingSubTeam
Artwork : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/SubTeams/ArtworkSubTeam
Doc [...]
Finally the hard working people over at the Fedora project have released a working Fedora 12 Spin featuring LXDE! Christoph has the complete story behind the delay, never mind that though and go grab your copy at http://spins.fedoraproject.org/lxde/ (in the last couple of hours 60 other downloads have already occured).
Faster and easier IT tools can benefit a lot of people all over the world. A goal that LXDE shares with One Laptop per Child. To bring LXDE on the XO-laptop can help to turn the XO from a tool for children only into a device for the whole family.
OLPC Afghanistan
This year in April I [...]
After our meet up at the Google Summit in Mountain View last week Yaakov Nemoy now published a simple Hacking Guide for LXDE/Fedora on the XO of the OLPC project. While Christoph Wickert and the LXDE team is already working on a fully supported version for the XO, this is “a bunch of quick and [...]
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 [...]
The lubuntu project is advancing. lynxis just published a lubuntu test iso based on the seeds by David Sugar and additional patches. It is just 381 MB and a second one only 292 MB.
Please download the image and test it and give feedback:
http://lynxis.crew.c-base.org
UPDATE: The CD images from the link above are now unavailable due to [...]
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