Taking LXDE For a Test Drive
There are a lot of contenders in the ring when it comes to open source desktop environments. The most well known would probably be Gnome and KDE in the heavyweight class, XFCE for middleweight, and any number of small, fast desktop environments and window managers in the lightweight ring. When it comes to the lightweight options, it’s no secret I’m a Window Maker fanboy. Recently, I’d been hearing more and more about a new challenger for the lightweight crown, LXDE. Can it stack up against the likes of Window Maker, Enlightenment, and Openbox? I decided to find out.
I began by installing LXDE from my apt mirror. If you’re not sure how to do this, open a command terminal and enter
apt-get install lxde
As always, your distro of choice may have a different installation method.
Once everything’s installed, log out of your current desktop environment and log back in under LXDE. Each distribution’s package may have different settings, but for me I got the following as my default desktop:
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