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Revision as of 10:12, 29 March 2012
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Installing to a running system
LXDE requires Debian Lenny (5.0) or later editions to satisfy dependencies to libc6.
aptitude update aptitude install lxde
Alternatively, if you want a minimal lxde without its recommended applications:
aptitude install --without-recommends lxde-core
Configuration for Reboot, Shutdown, and Suspend
On Debian, normal users by default do not have access to HAL power management. So, you need to add yourself to the group "powerdev". Otherwise, "shutdown", "suspend", "hibernate", and "reboot" won't be available when you log out LXDE.
You can do that by using the following command as root:
gpasswd -a user powerdev
Configuring Login Managers
GDM or KDM
For GDM and KDM no manual configuration is needed. 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.
SLIM
With this display manager, some manual configuration is needed. Please refer to their official document and write your /etc/slim.conf and ~/.xinitrc. The command you should put in your ~/.xinitrc to start LXDE is:
exec startlxde
WDM
WDM works the same as GDM or KDM: just select it from the menu.
XDM
XDM reads a file called .xsession in the user's home directory to determine which window manager (resp. desktop environment) to start. As it is usually not present on a fresh Debian installation, we have to create it and put LXDE's startup command there. As an example, this is a minimal working .xsession:
#!/bin/sh exec startlxde
No display manager, use startx
Run the following command with root access:
update-alternatives --config x-session-manager
Then choose startlxde. (For the option to show-up, you may have to reboot your system first.) The next time you run startx, LXDE will be started.
Configuration for locales and input method
- GDM or KDM: Setting locale is not needed. Input method can be specified by im-switch.
- SLIM: put this in your ~/.xinitrc before "exec startlxde" to set locales.
zh_TW.UTF-8 (traditional Chinese, Taiwan) is my locale, please replace it with yours.
export LC_ALL=zh_TW.UTF-8 export LANGUAGE=zh_TW.UTF-8 export LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8
If you need to use input method, add those lines, too. Please refer to the document of your input method. Here I use scim for example. (FIXME: Maybe we can use some im-switch compatible way here. Anyone know how to do it please fix this)
export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim export QT_IM_MODULE=xim scim -d
Install to a new system
i386 or amd64
Debian uses codes for system architectures, at the official install images noted as amd64 and i386 the user can select LXDE in the menu marked "Advanced options". Use the following install images.
- Minimal networkinstall cd (netinst) Recommended!
- CD
- DVD
- Multi-arch minimal cd i386/amd64/powerpc
Read more in the install notes (this is for i386).
Other systems
For other architectures you have to issue a boot parameter to install LXDE as your desktop environment.
- Download a install image (the netinst is recomended)
- Issue the boot parameter desktop=lxde
- Continue the install process as usual.
Read more in the install notes (this is for i386).
Lightweight systems CD
For simpler systems there is a special CD with XFCE (default) and LXDE as desktop environments, download the one for your system architecture.
Choose from installation menu Lxde to install lxde instead of xfce.
eee PC
- CD image to install Debian with LXDE on to a eee PC
- Copy the CD-image on to a USB drive with dd
dd if=debian-eeepc.img of=/dev/<USB-DEVICE>
Note: <USB-DEVICE> = the device, not a partition. ( for example: /dev/sdX but NOT /dev/sdX1)
An easy way: Start with CrunchBang
CrunchBang 10 "Statler" is based on Debian Testing with Openbox, with easy setup scripts. Setting up LXDE should usually be straightforward - see the CrunchBang article for details.
See also
- At debian.org more information about the various disc images can be found.
- Changes to the CD/DVD/Blue ray-images of Debian as of 7th of January 2009 is documented in the Debian mailing list archive
- Aptosid - a Debian Unstable based distribution with LXDE.
