LXDE

LXDE^[1] is the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment. It is an excellent choice for older hardware or for users who wish for a complete window manager without all of the overhead required by KDE or GNOME. Since it is XDG-compliant, the PC-BSD Control Panel, AppCafe®, and Life Preserver will be available on the desktop and will integrate into LXDE's menus.

Figure 6.3a shows a screenshot of the default LXDE installation with the LXPanel open.

Figure 6.3a: LXDE Desktop on a PC-BSD System

In addition to PC-BSD's utilities, LXDE provides the following utilities:

LXPanel^[2]: desktop panel which is launched by clicking on the PC-BSD icon in the lower right corner of the desktop. To configure the panel, right-click the PC-BSD icon and select "Panel Settings" or "Add/Remove Panel Items" from the right-click menu.

PCManFM^[3]: found in Accessories ➜ File Manager. A file manager with features like drag and drop, tabbed browsing, built-in file search, file association with default application, thumbnails for images, bookmarks, and support for non-UTF-8 encoded filenames.

GPicView^[4]: fast image viewer found in Accessories ➜ Image Viewer.

Leafpad^[5]: a light-weight graphical text editor found in Accessories ➜ Leafpad.

LXTerminal^[6]: terminal emulator found in Accessories ➜ LXTerminal

Xarchiver^[7]: archiver utility that supports the 7z, ARJ, bzip2, gzip, lzma, RAR, RPM, DEB, tar, and ZIP file formats. Found in Accessories ➜ Xarchiver.

Midori^[8]: a lightweight web browser found in Internet ➜ Midori.

epdfview^[9]: a PDF viewer found in Office ➜ ePDFViewer.

LXTask^[10]: task manager and system monitor found in System Tools ➜ Task Manager.

LXAppearance^[11]: a theme switcher for customizing the widgets, colors, icons, mouse cursors, and sound effects used by applications. Found in Preferences ➜ Customize Look and Feel.

LXInput: a tool to configure your keyboard and mouse found in Preferences ➜ Keyboard and Mouse.

Openbox^[12]: the window manager used by LXDE. You can configure settings such as themes, appearance, mouse, and margins by going to Preferences ➜ Openbox Configuration Manager.

References

[http:.2F.2Flxde.org.2F-0] ttp://lxde.org/

[http:.2F.2Fwiki.lxde.org.2Fen.2FLXPanel-1] ttp://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXPanel

[http:.2F.2Fwiki.lxde.org.2Fen.2FPCManFM-2] ttp://wiki.lxde.org/en/PCManFM

[http:.2F.2Fwiki.lxde.org.2Fen.2FGPicView-3] ttp://wiki.lxde.org/en/GPicView

[http:.2F.2Ftarot.freeshell.org.2Fleafpad.2F-4] ttp://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/

[http:.2F.2Fwiki.lxde.org.2Fen.2FLXTerminal-5] ttp://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTerminal

[http:.2F.2Fxarchiver.sourceforge.net.2F-6] ttp://xarchiver.sourceforge.net/

[http:.2F.2Ftwotoasts.de.2Findex.php.2Fmidori.2F-7] ttp://twotoasts.de/index.php/midori/

[http:.2F.2Ftrac.emma-soft.com.2Fepdfview.2F-8] ttp://trac.emma-soft.com/epdfview/

[http:.2F.2Fwiki.lxde.org.2Fen.2FLXTask-9] ttp://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTask

[http:.2F.2Fwiki.lxde.org.2Fen.2FLXAppearance-10] ttp://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXAppearance

[http:.2F.2Fwiki.lxde.org.2Fen.2FOpenbox-11] ttp://wiki.lxde.org/en/Openbox

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