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Installing LXDE on Fedora

LXDE ( Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment), is a desktop environment which is lightweight and very very fast.

It is designed to be user friendly and slim, and keep the resource usage low. LXDE uses less RAM and less CPU while being a feature rich operating system. Because of the low usage of resources it also saves energy.

How to install LXDE on Fedora

Fedora 8 + 9

yum install lxde-common

This will install the LXDE core components: lxde-common, lxpanel, lxsession, pcmanfm and openbox. You might also want to install additional applications:

yum install gpicview leafpad lxappearance lxtask lxterminal xarchiver

Fedora 10

yum groupinstall lxde-desktop

Then CTRL+ALT+ Backspace and choose LXDE for your active environment

Settings
You can pimp your desktop after that :)

Why don’t you attend FOSDEM and see Mario’s speech

Post a comment — Trackback URI RSS 2.0 feed for these comments This entry (permalink) was posted on Saturday, January 17, 2009, at 12:18 pm by Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov. Filed in Fedora.

2 Comments

  1. Christoph

    Hi Bogo,

    thanks for this article. It’s nice to see someone is really using my work on Fedora. Also thanks for mentioning our LXDE talk (Mario and me will do it together).

    I’m really looking forward to see you and all our fellow Fedorians @ FOSDEM.

    Posted on 17-Jan-09 at 1:35 pm | Permalink
  2. Петър

    Интересно ми е следното: на какъв точно хардуер забелязахте това “много много бързо” поведение на XLDE? Аз никаква разлика не виждам.

    Мерси

    Posted on 17-Jan-09 at 3:41 pm | Permalink

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