Gentoo

Installing LXDE

Using emerge

There are several packages for lxde. You can install all of them at once by emerging the lxde-meta meta package:

emerge -avt lxde-base/lxde-meta

Installing LXDM

LXDM is masked by ~x86 and ~amd64 and is not yet part of lxde-base/lxde-meta. To install it anyway, you need to unmask it. Assuming your arch is x86:

echo "lxde-base/lxdm ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

Then install it

emerge -avt lxde-base/lxdm

Using paludis

Unmask some packages:

cat >> /etc/paludis/keywords.conf << EOF
lxde-base/lxde-common ~x86
lxde-base/lxsession ~x86
lxde-base/lxpanel ~x86
x11-misc/pcmanfm ~x86
media-gfx/gpicview ~x86
EOF

There are several packages for lxde, you may install all of them at once with the following command:

paludis -i lxde-common lxsession lxde-base/lxpanel pcmanfm gpicview openbox -p

Running LXDE

If you use XDM, GDM or something like that LXDE will be listed as you log in. If you use startx, add 'exec startlxde' to your ~/.xinitrc

Using LXDM

Edit /etc/conf.d/xdm and set

DISPLAYMANAGER="lxdm"

Then add xdm to the default runlevel if it isn't already:

rc-update add xdm default

External link

• LXDE Gentoo Project: official project at gentoo.org working on LXDE for gentoo