LXDE Blog

Author: Mario Behling

  • LXDE one of the largest open-source teams in the world

    I just found this factoid on Ohloh and I am amazed to read this: LXDE: Very large, active development team Over the past twelve months, 26 developers contributed new code to LXDE. This is one of the largest open-source teams in the world, and is in the top 2% of all project teams on Ohloh. […]

  • LXDE core member Chris Wickert for Fedora Engeneering Steering Committee

    Please support LXDE and vote for our core member Chris Wickert in the elections of the Fedora Engeneering Steering Committee. Christoph is the maintainer of Xfce and LXDE in Fedora. A vote for Chris is a vote for lightweight desktops in Fedora. His goals are to make Fedora more lightweight and less ressource hungry as […]

  • LXDE start pages in Portuguese

    The LXDE.org start pages are now available in Portuguese thanks to Henrique P. Machado (zehrique) from Brazil who has translated the content. The set up of the language was done together with Mwei from Taiwan. We welcome contributors who are interested in having the LXDE start pages in their language. Please contact us through the […]

  • 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 […]

  • PCManFM: OpenSolaris distribution Milax with LXDE component

    The first LXDE component has been included in an OpenSolaris distribution. Milax includes PCMan File Manager in its new release. The LXDE/OpenSolaris project was started last year. Alfred Peng from China is responsible for porting LXDE components to OpenSolaris. Links: * http://www.milax.org/?p=218 * PCManFM http://wiki.lxde.org/en/PCManFM * http://opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/communities/lxde/ * http://wiki.lxde.org/en/OpenSolaris Mario BehlingMario Behling is a German […]

  • Nominate LXDE for the Community Choice Awards 2009

    Please nominate LXDE for the Community Choice Awards 2009 till May 29, 2009. LXDE was started already in 2005 in Taiwan and has spread all over the world. During the last year the project made big advances. New components have been added and older ones were updated. We have formed a viable translation project with […]

  • 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 […]

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