LXDE

LXDE, or Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment is a small but efficient X.Org desktop environment based on the Openbox window manager.

Installation for Release Version
To install LXDE, execute the following :

Once installed, you must edit your ~/.xinitrc file to comment out your current window manager (using ) and add the command to launch lxde :

Upon reboot, Gentoo will fire up LXDE once you log in.

Components list
Theses programs are available on portage. Note that they may be flagged as unstable.
 * Openbox - the window manager
 * LXSession
 * LXPanel
 * LXAppearance - configuration dialog for the appearance of GTK+ applications
 * LXrandr - GUI for the display configuration
 * PCManfm - the file manager of LXDE (also handles the LXDE-Desktop)
 * LeafPad - simple GTK+-based text editor
 * Xarchiver - archive manager, adopted by LXDE
 * GPicView
 * LXTerminal
 * LXLauncher - an application launcher, similar to the "Asus launcher" for the EeePC and the gnome-shell
 * LXTask - LXDE's task manager
 * LXDM - login manager for LXDE
 * and many others...

Installation for live version
You will need to get layman installed and configured.

Then you will need to get lxde overlay installed, lxde overlay needs mercurial to fetch.

After mercurial finished emerging, fetch the lxde overlay.

When the fetching successful, put the package keywords for lxde in.

If your /etc/portage/package.keywords is a file do:

or

Else if your /etc/portage/package.keywords is a directory do:

Assuming your portage version is high enough to do sets emerging you can do:

For full package installation:

For lite package installation:

General configuration
Configuration is made with ObConf. Run the tool either with the menu entry (Openbox Configuration Manager, under Preferences) or with a terminal :

You can then configure the theme (see Appearance, LXDE way below) as well as different windows options.

Appearance, LXDE way
Install lxappearance by doing the following :

Once installed, a launcher will appear in your menu in the settings section. You can also start it from your terminal by typing.

Keyboard Shortcuts
There is a LXDE-specific tool available:

If you prefer editing the config file, look at the Openbox article.