I was looking for the latest Salix .iso with LXDE

[leegold]

Hi,

Using Salix 14.1 Xfce

New Salix user and I like it. One thing I'm pretty sure of now is that Xfce does not "agree" with something, maybe hardware on my PC and I get random freezes. It's happened with any Xfce distro I've tried, but so far not with an LXDE distro.

I was looking for the latest Salix .iso with LXDE. Or could I install the core version and install LXDE from the packages?...though I did not LDXE in the packages when I tried looking.

What's best way of doing this?

Thanks

[aurlaent]

You can install LXDE using

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slapt-get --install-set lxde

You'll also probably want to install openbox, openbox-menu, obconf. You'll have to do some of the settings yourself.

[leegold]

Hi,

I installed the core system which I see now does not have X. I installed the lxde pakages recommend above, then I realized there was no X. So I installed xorg-server and xinit but that's obviously not enough. Is there a meta-package for X that takes care ot it all? I might need a video driver for Intel chips too. What is thew easiest way to do it? All I have is the command line and lynx browser.

Then when it's all done I assume I do something like # startx lxde or some thing like that?

Thanks

[mimosa]

Probably simplest to reinstall with basic (xfce) rather than core, then add lxde on top. Select lxde at the login screen and if all goes well, make it the default.

EDIT

Alternatively, install Ratpoison Basic, and lxde on top, and use xwmconfig to select the latter as the default. Then you would still fire it up with startx.

[gapan]

LXDE was never fully packaged for 14.0. So, if you installed any version of 14.0, you'll never be able to install LXDE (without compiling the packages that are missing or without getting them from a different source). The latest version with LXDE was 13.37 (and there was an iso with it, you can find it on Sourcerforge).

[mimosa]

I'm sorry, I didn't realise this

An alternative lightweight option would be Slackel Openbox - Slackel is based on Salix, but with a more recent kernel. But Salix 13.37 is fully supported.

[sojurn]

LXDE was never fully packaged for 14.0. So, if you installed any version of 14.0, you'll never be able to install LXDE (without compiling the packages that are missing or without getting them from a different source). The latest version with LXDE was 13.37 (and there was an iso with it, you can find it on Sourcerforge).

I'm an LXDE user myself, but from the minutes am under the impression that there are no plans in 14.x for it (?), so have been planning on upgrading to Xfce at some point. I like LXDE but realize that you guys don't have unlimited resources, so it really is no problem for me at least. And because I am not here because of LXDE, I am here because of Salix!