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LXDE on Nexus One phone
Sven Killig has managed to run LXDE on his Nexus One in a USB host mode. He has made a video showing how all kinds of devices plugged in – including a web cam, keyboards, screens and a display link unit. Connect USB devices to your Nexus One Hardware Nexus One Micro USB OTG cable […]
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PCManFM 0.9.1 + libfm 0.1.1 Alpha
Today, new alpha releases of PCManFM and libfm were made. Again, let me show you the screenshot first. Here are highlights of this release: Auto-mount for removable devices and and “Auto-run” dialog. (Finally we have this!) Support ‘menu://applications/’ to show installed applications in pcmanfm. (needs lxmenu-data) (reported to be a little bit buggy?) Support ‘menu://applications/DesktopSettings/’ […]
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LXMusic 0.4.3 released
LXMusic 0.4.3 was released by Jürgen Hötzel. Most important changes include: * Adopt XMMS2 DrNo 0.7 API changes * Fix a double free (on_playback_track_loaded) * Translation updates Please help to advance LXDE development and test releases, help with translations and update the wiki. Links: * Git Repository: http://lxde.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lxde/lxmusic * LXMusic in the LXDE Wiki: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXMusic […]
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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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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 […]
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First lubuntu Test ISO Available
The lubuntu project is advancing. lynxis just published a lubuntu test iso based on the seeds by David Sugar and additional patches. It is just 381 MB and a second one only 292 MB. Please download the image and test it and give feedback: http://lynxis.crew.c-base.org UPDATE: The CD images from the link above are now […]