OT: lightweight DE's

[Nigel Ridley]

marc wrote:
> Nigel Ridley said...
>> I'm running Jaunty Beta -- up-to-date and KDE 4.2 looks great etc. However, running all the 
>> latest and greatest on a laptop where one needs to conserve battery power from time to time, a 
>> bloated DE (desktop environment) such as KDE 4.2 is not really desirable. I have Desktop Effects 
>> turned off and still Xorg is using more CPU's than it ever did on Hardy.
>>
>> I know that this is still Beta but I'm beginning to think that it's all getting a bit too heavy.
>> I recently installed 'gOS 3.1 Gadgets' (http://www.thinkgos.com/gos/index.html) on my boy's 
>> [older] box and it runs really sweet. It uses the LXDE (http://lxde.sourceforge.net/install.html) 
>> DE and I see that it is available for Kubuntu pre Jaunty.
>>
>> I might be persuaded to change  but I still really need, and like, several KDE apps.
>> I have looked at Xubuntu but I don't like the XFCE DE (there are problems getting it to change 
>> keyboard layouts for other languages).
>>
>> Does anyone know if LXDE will run under Jaunty and if there are debs available (for Jaunty)? I 
>> did try Googling but only came up with debs for Intrepid and prior.
> 
> Just installed this on Jaunty and it works a treat. It even has suspend 
> on the "Leave" dialogue :-)
> 
> All the KDE apps I tried worked okay.
> 

You installed LXDE on Jaunty? Was it a deb or did you install from the tar.gz?

Blessings,

Nigel