Category: Development

  • Exciting improvements in libfm and PCMan File Manager

    Recently libfm, the core of next generation file manager, underwent heavy development and rapid changes. Here are some exciting highlights. The repository was completely moved from svn to git now. You can grab the latest source code with following command line: git clone git://libfm.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/libfm Drag and drop now works! You can even drag and drop […]

  • Recent Development Status of LXNM

    LXNM (Lightweight Network Manager) is working now after a long time for development. If you often check the news of SVN, you can notice that the next generation of LXNM has already supported wireless connection setting, also it has many feature as old version of LXNM. The new implementation and protocol defination seems to work […]

  • Recent Advancement on libfm (core of next generation pcmanfm).

    Everybody loves screenshots! Look! It’s sftp://. By utilizing glib/gio and gvfs, now libfm can access remote filesystems supported by gvfs. Currently there is no auto-mounting. So when testing libfm, you need to mount the filesystems with gvfs-mount manually. However this should work once libfm is finished. The current source code in svn repositoy can already […]

  • LXPanel 0.5.3

    LXPanel 0.5.3 was released today.  We are working toward alleviating the discomfort that some users feel with vertical panels as they exist in 0.5.x for use on smaller screens. Please feel free to discuss further. General A serious flaw that prevented vertical panels from honoring their configured size was corrected.  With this fixed it is […]

  • LXPanel 0.5.1 is released.

    Soon after Marty Jack released LXPanel 0.5.0, I made some minor enhancements and here comes LXPanel 0.5.1. Changes: The “Run” dialog no longer hangs. Now it’s showed immediately when you open it. Available commands for auto-completion is loaded in background with multi-threading. Restore the old behavior of taskbar in earlier versions: Taskbar button for the […]

  • LXPanel 0.5.0

    LXPanel 0.5.0 is being readied for release.  Here is a preview of the new and changed features. General Optional automatic hiding of the panel when it is not being actively accessed is now supported.  It is configured on Panel Settings/Advanced. Vertical panels are now assumed to be wide, and things are drawn normally rather than […]

  • Feel free to chat with us on IRC available at LXDE website

    Thanks Mibbit, we can make IRC chat easily available in our website. And, it is here: http://lxde.org/irc

  • LXNM current status and the plan in the future

    Next generation of LXNM (Lightweight Network Manager) is still under development right now, You guys can see the prototype which was implemented in SVN already. In the future, LXNM will provide some programs includes lxnm daemon, utility which is a command line program to make control of all kind of networking devices be unified into […]

  • 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 […]

  • Next generation PCManFM is now under development!

    Everybody loves screenshots! This is the little demo program included in libfm demonstrating the functionality of libfm – the core of next generation PCManFM. Due to some limitations and various hard-to-fix problems in the original PCManFM, a new project is started to work on a fresh rewrite of PCManFM. Now I’ve created a project named […]