Today we will take a look at the LXDE environment at the request of reader Oscar.
LXDE(Lweight X11 Desktop Environment) is a lightweight environment that makes use of the GTK + libraries and that uses Openbox as a window manager.
Some claim that it is lighter than XFCE, which I cannot confirm but it runs quite well on a computer with its years old and 512 Mb of RAM like mine.
Let's see a screenshot:
At first glance we can see that it is very simple, in it the elements are the bar, the menu, the shortcuts, the clock, a shutdown menu and a box with a green graphic that is a consumption meter.
When we install it, it comes very bare, as if we were installing a "minimal" or "base" from any other desktop
The menu
A menu that reminds us of a certain system, but fully functional.
Customization tools
LXDE uses Openbox customization tools.
This is to configure the appearance of the windows, mouse, icons, fonts, etc.
And in this other we select the wallpaper
Consumer goods
As we can see with YouTube open in Firefox and the blog post editor is set to slightly less than half.
With other lighter browsers consumption is reduced.
My conclusion
If you have no other option, install it but I prefer KDE, LXDE is very simple and not very beautiful aesthetically but it is recommended for low-resource teams
Lxde is very good and highly recommended for those who have just left windows, it is very light and configurable.
Very configurable? wow ... not to belittle LXDE far from it but ... have you tried KDE?
The truth for me, it's perfect, between lxde and xfce they are the best; Now let's take into account that for my way of seeing «the simpler the better», and, kde will be very nice but it is a shark with the ram and, I don't like that.
If it is very configurable. You have to touch some files, but it is ..
Do not underestimate it, because they are environments with different objectives, lxde focuses on being as light and less loaded as possible, that's why the complete installation only reaches a little more than 30 Mb, while Kde focuses on giving a complete desktop experience , with many tools and everything, the complete installation is like 630 Mb, so obviously you will see more GUI tools in Kde to configure the system while in Lxde you will only see the basic ones and as it uses OpenBox as a window manager, you can configure almost everything touching the rc.xml and menu.xml files which is the only thing you need.
I'm still a total fan of Kde, and just a few days ago I was using only Openbox to test and I just love it too.
I put LXDE a while ago, since then I always use it. I have gone through Gnome2, Shell, KDE4, XFCE and in the end I have ended up in LXDE. It seems to me a very light desktop, which allows me to work or entertain myself without stability problems due to the consumption of ram (KDE, Shell), with 1 GB of Ram I go a little when I start to open things and with LXDE I have managed not to have to be using barely swap (kde was swallowing about 200mb of swap per hour).
I think that LXDE is quite customizable (I have it with metacity), in fact I have it quite modified, with Docky and gkrellm and it has been, so to speak, beautiful and consuming about 140MB of Ram.
Thank you friend Courage for the entry, clear and concise, I have a veteran PC with 512 Mb of ram, there I am going to install it and test it, I do not see it ugly but simple.
I installed ubuntu with lxde on a pentium 2 with 383 ram and it goes great.
384 ram, lol my calculator failed me.
LXDE is very good. I used it for a long time, because it is ideal for my netbook due to its low resource consumption, and it never disappointed me, indeed, if I didn't like KDE so much, I would still use it. LXDE and KDE, for me, the best desktop environments.
I have tried it since unity came out in the last ubuntu netbook remix, and I really loved LXDE since then; what I like the most is its simplicity and that it saves resources (ram and battery). That led me to switch from normal Ubuntu with Unity to Lubuntu.
Hello, Courage. I liked your article. Hopefully you will post more in the future. Thank you.
Of course I do, let's see if I don't run out of ideas
Do you know what the trick is so that ideas do not run out? ... simple, read articles and news on the net, you read X article about something and you say: «damn, that's interesting, but if I did this differently it would be better» ... and voila, there you have a new idea for an article 😉
Or if I'm not lazy, or if something happens to me (I know you're thinking about emos), ef ni, it's a lot of circumstances
Recently I decided to experiment a little more than usual with the old PCs where I work and I put Debian 6.0 on them with LXDE as a desktop but something is happening to me that had never happened to me in either Gnome or KDE:
When I log in, the default system is putting all the files in my personal folder on the desktop, that is ... if I have for example 2 folders in my / home, one called Downloads and another called My_things, when I log in, I get the desktop those 2 folders. My question is ... does that have to be like this in LXDE or is it my configuration problem?
I think it must be something in the settings. Do you have created a folder called Desktop or Desktop on your home?
It has to be that because it doesn't happen to me
Very good my favorite