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LXMusic – Minimalist xmms2-based music player
Everyone loves screenshots! LXMusic – The minimalist music player for LXDE. This is based on xmms2, which is lightweight and has server/client design. The user interface is quite simple, clean, and intuitive. At first glance, it looks similar to my favorite player on Windows – foobar 2000. LXMusic only has very few features, and it […]
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LXDE Translation Project
We are starting the LXDE translation project. Please join the LXDE translation team now! Help translating LXDE into different languages. Join us improving the documentation and resources around LXDE. It is the aim of the LXDE team and community to give access to information to people with less powerful hardware. Many did not have the […]
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Recent Status of LXDE
Actually, the LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) project had rested for some time. Though we’re getting more and more people to join us since Linux World Expo 2008, LXDE have no much improvements since July this year. It’s happened due to our main developers didn’t have time to write new code, PCMan took time to […]
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LXPanel 0.4.0 beta! Testers are needed!
We haven’t have new releases of LXPanel for quite a long time, but the development is still ongoing. Major Changes: * Greatly rewrite application menu with our new menu-cache library. Now it’s complete and more user-friendly * Improved “Run” dialog * Improved OSS volume plugin * Image showed on application menu button can be changed […]
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LXShortcut – easy way to edit application shortcuts
A new component, LXShortcut, is added yesterday. It’s a small utility used to edit application shortcuts. Now editing of application shortcuts become quite easy.
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LXSession Edit – Configure what’s automatically started in LXDE.
It’s well known and well documented that our session manager LXSession Lite suppport the autostart freedesktop.org specs. However, autostart spec is a term for developers and it’s meaningless for our end users. Basically, it provides a way to automatically start some applications after login. Now this can (partially) be configured through a simple GUI – […]
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Community First!
The current release of MySQL shows the problems free and open source software projects face that put business first and community second. Michael “Monty” Widenius critizes in his Blog the current developement model of MySQL and recommends not to use the current release 5.1 of the database system. The reason I am asking you to […]
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LXDE Meeting in Shenzhen – Video
There is now a video online of the gathering with the Shenzhen Linux User Group and our discussion about Open Source and LXDE provided from Zhang Le. Thanks a lot! Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9072456269136280272 Avi-Link: http://www.gentoo-cn.org/~zhangle/szlug/mario_lxde_20081122.avi
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Linux User Group Shenzhen (Szlug) Meeting and Presentation of LXDE
I had a fantastic meeting with the Linux User Group in Shenzhen, which is just on the border to Hong Kong and seat of some famous technology companies such as Huawei and Tencent (QQ). The Shenzhen Linux User Group (Szlug) is one of the biggest Linux User Groups in Asia and has currently 480 members. […]
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Fedora 10 with LXDE
We are excited to see another distribution including LXDE. Fedora offers LXDE in its new versions arriving November 26 25, 2008. This release of Fedora comes with an additional desktop environment named LXDE. LXDE is a new project that provides a lightweight, fast desktop environment designed to be usable and slim enough to keep resource […]