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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…
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PCLXDE
The PCLinuxOS Team has released a PCLinuxOS version with LXDE as the default Desktop, called PCLXDE: PCLXDE 2009.4 is a minimal self-booting/installable Linux Live CD that features the LXDE desktop environment along with a small suite of lightweight applications designed for use on low end computer systems. It is small, fast and fun. Designed for…
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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…
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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.…
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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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…