So far in this series I have looked at customizing Xfce, KDE, Gnome 3, Cinnamon and MATE. That covers a lot of territory, and there has been some significant overlap in focus, features and ...

It's been a week of change for the Razor-qt and LXDE projects. Over the weekend, the Razor-qt project announced that it would be merging with the Qt port of the LXDE project, focusing resources from ...

It’s no wonder that the Linux desktop operating system is not attracting hordes of new users from Microsoft Windows and the Mac OS X platforms. Linux has almost too many desktop choices, and most of ...

Linux For All very well could be a unifying Linux distribution that provides a common computing platform. LFA is a distro developed by Sweden-based software engineer Arne Exton of Exton Linux, the ...

In today's open source roundup: How to customize the LXDE desktop in Linux. Plus: Calibre 2.46.0 released. And Google is working on split-screen multitasking for Android tablets LXDE is a powerful and ...

Here's how you can install the LXDE desktop environment in Ubuntu 12.10. You can use LXDE to replace Unity.

The LXDE desktop is no slouch when it comes to configuring SparkyLinux Tyche. You get numerous configuration panels plus nearly one dozen individual setup menu options in the Preferences and System ...

I've used LXDE for weeks, and I'm still having trouble finding much to say about it. That's not a good sign. I feel a little bad right now. Over the last two weeks I’ve run nothing but LXDE as my ...

Linux is all about choice, and choosing a distribution is only the first step. Linux distros usually have a default desktop environment, but there are a slew of desktop environments available to use.

Netbooks aren't the fastest computers, but they can be useful—as long as they're usable. If you want your netbook to work and feel like a real computer rather than a toy, I can't recommend Lubuntu ...