LXDE

I discovered LXDE a few hours ago, and I’ve already made it my default desktop environment. I have got yet everything the way I like it, but I’m getting there… Here are some notes:

• the clock format I like for my digital clock is %d.%m.%Y %T
• startup apps for all users are inside /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
• user-specific startup apps are separate .desktop files under ~/.config/autostart
• add keyboard shortcuts to the main configuration file ~/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml like this (inside the <keyboard> element:

  <!-- Azimout's launchers -->
  <keybind key="A-C-1">
      <action name="Execute">
          <command>firefox</command>
      </action>
  </keybind>
    <keybind key="A-C-2">
      <action name="Execute">
          <command>thunderbird</command>
      </action>
  </keybind>
  <keybind key="A-C-T">
      <action name="Execute">
          <command>terminator</command>
      </action>
  </keybind>
  <keybind key="A-C-C">
      <action name="Execute">
          <command>gcalctool</command>
      </action>
  </keybind>
  <keybind key="A-C-E">
      <action name="Execute">
          <command>pcmanfm</command>
      </action>
  </keybind>

• to re-enable keyboard layout switching, add this to your startup:

@setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:alt_shift_toggle,lv3:ralt,eurosign:e us,el

UPDATE:

One week later, 17.02.2009, I’m switching back to Gnome. The speed was nice, but I missed some things, like Nautilus, or some panel applets. However, the version in Intrepid is old (0.3.2.1) while at lxde.org there’s 0.4.8.6, so I might give it a try again in the future…