Comments on: LXDE in Archlinux

By: r.p.h.x.

r.p.h.x. — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:11:35 +0000

After some days with KDE4 i discovered lxde for me.
But there are some annoying issues (like hardly usable Lxpanel).
Maybe i did smth wrong, but i cannot see apps icons in task list. Just text with strange (closure?) icon. desktop pager is ugly.
Forums say to use pypanel or smth, but i want use native one.

By: Geoffroy Carrier

Geoffroy Carrier — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:58:19 +0000

@Babets: I don’t know who he is, sorry. I finally adopted all LXDE packages :)
@iluvprogrock, @D3BR074: Do not except anything similar! The spirit is completely different, and there is no plan to “clone” Gnome, which is a complete desktop but also a great framework.
@Mistfit138: It seems to become more widely adopted. It is now the default environment of Archlive! We need fresh blood, as pcman, the main developer, will be much less available from now for professionnal reasons.

By: Misfit138

Misfit138 — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:08:55 +0000

Looks terrific!
I use Openbox, pypanel, and pcmanfm, so switching to LXDE may give me a more expedient solution so setting up a quick, pre-configured and light WM. I hope to see it adopted!

By: D3BR074

D3BR074 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:09:06 +0000

Looks good! I want to replace gnome with this. Gnome seems to be munching on my ram these days, and although I have lots of ram…I don’t want a Gnome to get it! call me selfish that way!

By: iluvprogrock

iluvprogrock — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:15:41 +0000

Sweet. I use openbox in gnome atm, but lxde looks like a great alternative. I’m going to have to give it a try.

By: Babets

Babets — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:41:42 +0000

I see that you have adopted the lxde packages that are already in community, i have voted all the lxde packages.
I know that is a little bit “OT” but i have a little question :)
What happen to Romashka? There are many community packages that he adopted that are not up-to-date.

By: gcarrier

gcarrier — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:12:40 +0000

Actually I can always put packages from unsupported to community and then adopt them. That’s something TUs can do without being polite, which make some users angry at them.

By: Babets

Babets — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:42:30 +0000

In Aur many lxde package are orphan, maybe you can adopt them :)