LXDE Spin

LXDE Spin

Summary

The Fedora LXDE spin is meant to be a lightweight but yet complete desktop based on LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment.

Owner

• Name: Christoph Wickert
• email: <cwickert@fedoraproject.org>

Detailed Description

LXDE is a modern but lightweight desktop including a panel, desktop icons and a file manager together with a collection of lightweight applications for every day needs. For more information about LXDE please visit the LXDE wiki page and the LXDE Feature page .

Benefit to Fedora

Current Fedora installs need a lot of disk space and resources. This is an attempt to make Fedora suitable for older and smaller machines like Netbooks or the XO.

Kickstart File

• http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=blob_plain;f=fedora-livecd-lxde.ks

Localized versions:

• http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=blob_plain;f=l10n/fedora-livecd-lxde-de_DE.ks
• http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=blob_plain;f=l10n/fedora-livecd-lxde-de_CH.ks

ISO Name / FS Label

• ISO name: Fedora-$release-$arch-Live-LXDE
• FS-Label: Fedora-$release-$arch-LXDE

Dependencies

• Features/LXDE (done)
• Bug 512264 - SELinux blocks SLiM

Scope / Testing

1. Run basic spin testing
2. Test installs from livecd and usb, test livecdcreator
3. Things to test on LXDE

Comments and Discussion

• See Talk:LXDE Spin

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