LXDE

Also known as Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment

LXDE (abbreviation for Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) is a free desktop environment with comparatively low resource requirements. This makes it especially suitable for use on older or resource-constrained personal computers such as netbooks or system on a chip computers.

Key facts

Software.name: LXDE
Software.logo: 100px|LXDE Logo
Software.screenshot: LXDE desktop full.png
Software.caption: Default LXDE desktop
Software.author: Hong Jen Yee ("PCMan")
Software.developer: The LXDE Team
Software.discontinued: yes
Software.programming language: C (GTK 2, GTK 3)
Software.operating system: Unix-like
Software.platform: Linux, BSD
Software.genre: Desktop environment
Software.license: GPL, LGPL

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: free and open-source software
Part of: Lubuntu
Official website: www.lxde.org
Image: LXDE desktop full.png

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topic's main category: Category:LXDE
Commons category: LXDE
programmed in: C
copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
GUI toolkit or framework: Qt
software version identifier: 0.5.6
source code repository URL: lxde.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lxde/trunk
operating system: Unix-like operating system
inception: 2006-00-00
issue tracker URL: sourceforge.net/p/lxde/bugs
user manual URL: wiki.lxde.org/en/Main_Page

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

History
{{Anchor|LXQt|LXDE-Qt|Razor-qt}}Qt port
GTK 3 port
Current development
Availability
Software components of LXDE
See also
References
External links

LXDE was written in the C programming language, using the GTK 2 toolkit, and runs on Unix and other POSIX-compliant platforms, such as Linux and BSDs. The LXDE project aims to provide a fast and energy-efficient desktop environment.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “LXDE” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.