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LXMusic 0.4.2 released!
Today Jürgen Hötzel of the LXDE development team released an updated verison of LXMusic. Download it at sourceforge. The most important changes: fix all gcc compilation warnings LXMusic can be compiled using CFLAGS “-Wall -Werror” on_playlist_content_received Request medialib info for whole playlist at once instead of requesting and updating each track successive. This improves speed […]
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Recent PCManFM/libfm updates
During this weekend, much has been changed in libfm. Many small bugs are fixed, and some missing features are implemented. Please test it. Get the latest source code from git repo. git clone git://pcmanfm.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/pcmanfm/libfm Recent Changes: Remote folders get updated when files in them get changed in libfm. Trash can icon in side pane is […]
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HUGE success of the Fedora 12 LXDE Spin
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.
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lubuntu – How To Get Involved
Julian Lavergne posted some ideas to get involved into lubuntu on the mailing list of the project which are helpful for anyone who would like to contribute to the lubuntu project. I am adding a few ideas here. == Improve the Documentation == Our lubuntu documentation site can always be improved. Check out: https://docs.lubuntu.net == Participate […]
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Fedora 12 LXDE Spin – Take two!
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).
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LXDE opportunities for OLPC Afghanistan and OLPC Vietnam
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 […]
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LXDE Fedora for the XO of One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
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 […]
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Projects libfm and pcmanfm are now merged!
Today, we decided to move libfm, which aimed to be a core lib for developing file managers, to pcmanfm project. This doesn’t mean that you’ll need pcmanfm to use libfm. They are just hosted in the same project. Advantage: Bug tracker and developer membership can be shared. (The most important one) Since it’s difficult for […]
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Current status of libfm and PCManFM
As usual, let’s begin with the latest screenshot. Some highlights: The side pane now correctly display volumes. Mounting of removable devices now works out of the box. Just click on them in the side pane. Bookmark items in the side pane are now correctly updated whtn your gtk+ bookmarks got changed by other applications. Some […]
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LXDM – New Display Manager
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 […]