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Fedora LXDE Spin
Developer Christoph Wickert and LXDE Fedora Support Team
Current Release Fedora 12 LXDE Spin
Latest version
Release date and age December 14, 2009
Frequently updated yes
Programming language C
Platform Linux Operating System
Status active
License GNU General Public License and other Free Licenses
Website spins.fedoraproject.org/lxde/

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[edit] Current Status of LXDE in Fedora

LXDE is available for Fedora 8 and above. In Fedora 10 it has become an official feature and for Fedora 12 a custom LXDE Spin (installable Live CD) was released. Details and download at http://spins.fedoraproject.org/lxde/

[edit] Installation

Use the Fedora graphical Add/Remove program or in the command line

  1. yum install @lxde-desktop

[edit] Configuring Login Managers

For GDM, KDM and XDM no manual configuration is needed, /etc/X11/prefdm will automatically start the correct display manager. If you do however wish to specify a certain display manager independent of the desktop environment, you can do so in /etc/sysconfig/desktop:

DISPLAYMANAGER=GNOME|KDE|XDM

[edit] GDM or KDM

Just select LXDE from the available sessions listed by the display manager. If you don't see LXDE, restart your gdm or kdm, or reboot.

[edit] SLiM

In Fedora, slim may be called through a wrapper, slim-dynwm, which determines the available window managers using the freedesktop information and modifies the slim configuration file accordingly, before launching slim. To use SLiM with Fedora, put the following in your /etc/sysconfig/desktop configuration:

DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/bin/slim-dynwm

To reboot or halt, login in as special username "reboot" or "halt" - using the root password. To get a console prompt use username "console", and to switch sessions use F1, screenshot F11.

[edit] Make LXDE the default Desktop

To use LXDE as the default desktop for new users, put the following in your /etc/sysconfig/desktop configuration:

PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startlxde

[edit] External Links

For more information and screenshots visit the Fedora Project Wiki:

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