[clue-tech] LXDE -- New Desktop for Old/Slow Machines

Dennis J Perkins dennisjperkins at comcast.net
Mon Jul 7 21:04:50 MDT 2008


It uses Gtk+, just like XFCE.  Any Gtk program like Gimp should run on
it.

On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 19:34 -0600, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> Just caught a link to an article about LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop
> Environment. Check out the System Requirements here:
> http://lxde.org/about.html
> 
> Of course, it doesn't help out with running big apps such as OpenOffice.
> But even there, if the desktop environment is consuming less RAM and
> cycles, even OO should improve at least a little.
> 



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