[lubuntu-users] 18.04 LTS support length? (uninvolved at outlook.com)

[Aere Greenway]

(my comments are bottom-posted)
On 5/23/20 1:56 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
> Always interesting to see how OPs seem to disappear on ubuntu forums, 
> and it winds up RPs discussing the topic . . . .
>
> So, booted up in Lu 20.10 and checking the sessions I now have 
> "Lubuntu" which seems to be thenewer, richer looking, possibly 
> "Plasma" based GUI DE; and "LXQT Desktop" which seems to be more of 
> the basic GUI DE; and then ye olde Openbox . . . minimalistic DE . . . .
>
> So I don't know if I had "lxde" only a few weeks back, and then moving 
> up to "groovy" removed it, OR, that was an imaginary "fabrication" on 
> my part and what I saw as "lxde" was the "lxqt desktop" option . . . 
> that option seems similar to what was the traditional "lxde" . . . DE 
> . . . maybe it has just been "renamed" as the easy way to change the 
> DE, but under the name it is still . . . the same??  I didn't spend 
> too long looking at the features offered in lxqt desktop session . . . 
> but, just saying that especially in linux, "change is inevitable" . . 
> . the clock runs forward . . . .
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 11:18 AM Fritz Hudnut <este.el.paz at gmail.com 
> <mailto:este.el.paz at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Possibly I have lxde there from before there was lxqt and I've
>     just updated via changing the sources.list??  I can't remember
>     when I did a fresh install, but I think maybe I had to after
>     Siduction ripped through all of my drives and wiped data . . .
>     probably would have been 18.04??  And I didn't add lxde . . . but,
>     I couldn't swear to that . . . .  : - ))
>
>     On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 9:27 AM Aere Greenway
>     <aere at dvorak-keyboards.com <mailto:aere at dvorak-keyboards.com>> wrote:
>
>         On 5/21/20 8:36 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
>>
>>             Having now used LXQt, I'm much happier with LXDE. I'd
>>             like to stick with LXDE as long as realistically
>>             possible, though I understand (I think) the difficulties
>>             around that.
>>
>>             Can anyone clear this up, thanks
>>
>>
>>         @et al:
>>
>>         I'm pretty sure that even in 20.10 Lu that I have now, the
>>         option of LXQT, LXDE, or Openbox sessions are available on
>>         log in?
>>
>>         Possibly Aere G could confirm that, but I believe there was a
>>         conversation regarding something similar not too long ago
>>         here?  Likely at least 20.04 . . . I'm a couple days away
>>         from my "lubuntu" day . . . .
>>
>>         F
>>
>         I'm pretty sure you have to install the lxde package, before
>         the LXDE option appears in the "Session" drop-box, near the
>         upper left corner of the log-in screen.
>
>         -- 
>         Sincerely,
>         Aere
>
>
>
The LXDE desktop I see on Lubuntu 20.04, appears identical to the LXDE 
desktop I see on my Debian Buster systems.

The launcher icon, and the dark, rounded taskbar, as well as the LXDE 
splash-screen are the same on Lubuntu 20.04, and on Debian Buster.

I suspect the LXDE we get on Lubuntu 20.04, is the same as comes from 
Debian.

-- 
Sincerely,
Aere

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