LXDE Blog

Month: January 2009

  • 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 […]

  • Statistics about LXDE from Ohloh

    Ohloh is an online service providing some useful information about free and open source projects. Here are some interesting statistics about LXDE. LXDE is: * Mostly written in C * Increasing year-over-year development activity * Large, active development team * Established codebase * Few source code comments * Academic Free License may conflict with GPL […]

  • 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. […]

  • LXDE featured in prestigious magazine 新新聞 The Journalist

    Shen Wanyu from the prestigious magazine ¨新新聞 The Journalist¨ in Taiwan interviewed us some time ago. Result was a six page article ( PDF-Download, 5,9 MB ) about business opportunities for companies with free and open source software. [slideshow id=5] More information on the amazing global media coverage of LXDE in the Media Section of […]

  • LXDE on Twitter

    I have set up an LXDE feed on twitter. Please check it out here: Overview: http://twitter.com/lxde The LXDE RSS-Feed: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/18883012.rss Mario BehlingMario Behling is a German born serial entrepreneur. He founded the lubuntu project, and as the co-founder of FOSSASIA he supports communities to develop open technologies for social change. Mario presently works on SUSI […]

  • New Modification of the forum

    Recently, maces recommended us to install a mod that is very useful when you have a problem to ask in the forums. When you find the best answer of all replies, you can check to the reply which the button is on the top-right side of the post. However, though this mod is activated, we […]

  • 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)

  • Two Three new languages of the wiki.

    Just now, Mario said that we have more people joining our translation project and asked me to set up 2 more languages of our wiki: Indonesian and Lithuanian. And currently, we have 17 languages of the wiki in total. But we have to work harder because Wikipedia has 265 different languages. Update: Another request – […]

  • LXDE with Sidux – Installation how to

    My friend Kevin, who is based in Ho-Chi-Minh-City (former Saigon), has written a nice article about his experience with LXDE and Sidux on his blog Saigonnezumi.com. The post can be used as a how to for anyone who wants to try out LXDE on Sidux. LXDE has the looks of KDE, the feel of Gnome […]