Tag: LXDE

  • 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 […]

  • T-shirts and Banners for LXDE

    LXDEs popularity is increasing and so people ask for presentation materials and T-shirts. So, lets design some T-shirts and banners together. We are calling for you to make some T-shirt designs and designs for the display of LXDE at community events with PVC banners. You are a designer or like to become one? Please join […]

  • New LXDE Components available

    PCMan released new LXDE Components and improved settings structure of LXDE. 1. LXInput. This is a config tool used to configure your keyboard and mouse under LXDE. 2. The lxde-settings-daemon: The original lxde-settings is moved from lxde-common to a new separate package and was renamed to lxde-settings-daemon. In addition to the theme, now the settings […]

  • LXDE in CentOS

    Avelino from the CentOS Community in Brazil and Chris Wickert had an interesting talk on the LXDE IRC (irc.oftc.net #lxde), how to make LXDE run in CentOS. There are no LXDE rpms for CentOS yet, but it is possible to rebuild the srpms from Fedora. You can grab the latest packages from https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates, use the […]

  • LXPanel 0.4 and menu-cache 0.2.4 released

    Hi all, here comes the latest release of LXPanel – version 0.4. First I’d like to say sorry because this is not a bug-free release. Some existing problems are not completely solved yet, but most of the bugs causing crashes were fixed. However, we feel it’s right time to have a new release. The menu-cache […]

  • Summer of Code slots available for LXDE through Debian

    There are still opportunities for people interested in working on LXDE as a summer of code project. We are in touch for example with the Debian project, who offered to give spots to students from the LXDE project for example for a better integration. Also, new student projects are welcome. The summer of code program […]

  • LXDE Summer of Code Projects – Apply now

    The Google Summer of Code is now accepting applications from students for projects. There are a number of projects, that could accept LXDE related works. If you have an idea we are open to support you and discuss it. Please join us in the LXDE channel on irc.oftc.net. I would also like to support you […]

  • 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 […]

  • LXDE at Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2009

    The feedback on LXDE at the Chemnitzer Linuxtage in Germany has been fantastic. Klaus Knopper presented LXDE as a default on Knoppix. Christoph Wickert showed how to install LXDE on different systems and Marcus Schulderisnky introduced people to ways to translate LXDE. Here are voices from the blogosphere. LXDE was a very important topic. We […]

  • Summer of Code: Please submit your project ideas

    I have submitted our application for the Google Summer of Code 2009 and we are looking forward to the participation of the LXDE project. We are applying with LXDE and PCMan File Manager as dedicated software projects. We are gathering project ideas for LXDE in the wiki.  If you are interested to join LXDE at […]