After installing your base Gentoo system, and
You may find yourself saying "well, I like the idea of having a lightweight
graphical environment, but I don't want to install and configure every
component individually like with Openbox." For quite some time, such users
installed
LXDE, being a desktop environment, is comprised of several components. Each
program offers a certain functionality, and together they form the complete
desktop environment. Currently, there are eleven core components, and
several other programs necessary to make a complete LXDE installation.
These programs are the ones pulled in by the
After you have emerged and configured
# nano -w /etc/portage/package.keywords
# emerge -av lxde-meta
If everything looks to your liking (meaning the current set of USE flags,
et cetera), then say "yes" when asked if you want to emerge the packages.
Just like with other desktop environments, you will need to tell the
X Server to load LXDE automatically, by adding it to your
$ echo "exec startlxde" >> ~/.xinitrc
This will automatically start your LXDE session when you type
Now that the X server knows to start LXDE on command, type in
In LXDE, every appearance option is not handled through LXappearance as one might believe. Rather, there are some common options that are handled through a right-click menu on the desktop. At the bottom of that menu is the "Desktop Settings" menu. In here, you can find icon sizes, single-click and double-click behaviour, maximum thumbnail size, and desktop wallpaper settings. It may behoove you to look through the these tabs for additional appearance settings.
Though this guide will help you get LXDE installed, the documentation does not stop here. There are many resources available to you regarding the various facets of the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment. Some such resources are listed below: