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LXDE
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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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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- 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 (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.
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.