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LXDE

The "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment" is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment.

Screenshot of the LXDE desktop. It's simple, lightweight, fast, modern, internationalized, and standard-compliant.

Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Linux  Provided by distribution
  • BSD  Provided by distribution
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Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  X server
  2.  Desktop Environment

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    Centaro added LXDE as alternative to SonicDE
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about LXDE, and it has gotten 124 likes

LXDE was added to AlternativeTo by Aas on and this page was last updated . LXDE is sometimes referred to as Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment. 

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Oktay Mercan
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Most lightweight Desktop envoirement. Better than XFCE and LXQt and others...

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What is LXDE?

The "Lightweight X11 icon X11 Desktop Environment" is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment. Maintained by an international community of developers, it comes with a beautiful interface, multi-language support, standard keyboard short cuts and additional features like tabbed file browsing. LXDE uses less CPU and less RAM than other environments. It is especially designed for cloud computers with low hardware specifications, such as, netbooks, mobile devices (e.g. MIDs) or older computers. LXDE can be installed with distributions like Ubuntu or Debian. It provides a fast desktop experience; connecting easily with applications in the cloud. LXDE supports a wealth of programs that can be installed locally with Linux systems. The source code of LXDE is licensed partly under the terms of the the General Public License and partly under the LGPL.