Is LXDE the most lighweight DE?

[Georgetoon]

So, just curious...is LXDE the most lightweight Desktop Environment?

[Tony]

Of the supported PCLOS Distros it is.

In general I'd think 'Puppy Linux' would be the lightest of popular home User type DE's.

[daniel]

There isn't nothing other here ...
Maybe Openbox, or Fluxbox but no ISO's available...

[Just17]

So, just curious...is LXDE the most lightweight Desktop Environment?

Probably the lightest DE ........  but there are lighter DMs ---- quite a few in the repo.

[Yankee]

I think LXDE is like a baby KDE but a full DE nonetheless.

Whereas Xfce is like a baby Gnome but a full DE nonetheless.

A properly working Mandriva system, which is what PCL is
has to be one of the top three systems available, and my
LXDE works, oh, about 99%.    A couple of softwares are
still troubling.   Nothing fatal just a library here and there
not really connected to the LXDE desktop itself.

But, that could change in an instant, and 100% everything,
as in the past,  would be remarkable.

Efficient and logical, then yeah, LXDE is the lightest.

[Crow]

Of the supported PCLOS Distros it is.

Hotiegibbon made several remasters lighter than the current LXDE but unfortunately retired them, maybe somebody has an updated install.

[Yankee]

Of the supported PCLOS Distros it is.

Hotiegibbon made several remasters lighter than the current LXDE but unfortunately retired them, maybe somebody has an updated install.

I'm sure those work but I still wonder why "lightest" keeps coming up.
I think a full PCL-Mandriva-LXDE boots faster and just plain runs better.
Doesn't even hesitate like some WM only systems could do.   The
quality is there.

A full LXDE full of programs runs about 4 GB, about the same as a stock
Windows install, without contending with 30-40 GB of net-framework for
special Windows programs to tax the system.

With 1 GB ram and sometimes just 500 MB of swap, I'm very pro-LXDE on my
machine.   

With 512 MB of ram I don't know what I would do.    Buy a used Pentium 3 Ghz
desktop for $99 bucks I guess.   Or a 1 GB of swap, who knows.

[Crow]

I'm sure those work but I still wonder why "lightest" keeps coming up.

Just because    

Some of us like to try different DEs and make it work with the least possible resources, currently that means a Celeron 450 IBM laptop with 64 MB RAM, 2GB video and 10 GB HD  a previous AntiX version works like a charm in that thing 

[Yankee]

I'm sure those work but I still wonder why "lightest" keeps coming up.

Just because    

Some of us like to try different DEs and make it work with the least possible resources, currently that means a Celeron 450 IBM laptop with 64 MB RAM, 2GB video and 10 GB HD  a previous AntiX version works like a charm in that thing 

I got a standard.iso to install the other day and almost tried the same thing.
Had root and user login from the console OK.    I could've apt-get init and startx
and openbox and mc to install as well I'm sure,  but I said I'm getting a little over
my head tech-wise here.   Dbus, network interface, start-up script, etc..

AntiX ?   Makes full use of unetbootin and persistence, remaster's itself OK.

So, I can appreciate what you are trying to do as well.

thanks for the response.

Y

[Georgetoon]

Yep. I'm using LXDE due to having only 2 gigs of RAM and a Sempron processor. for some reason, KDE bogs down on this system. I'm limited in what I can do at the same time.  I cannot have Chromium open and edit my cartoons in Gimp.   With LXDE, so far, I appear to be able to do both of these the same time. 

it has me scratching my head, though.  I ran PCLOS KDE 3.5 on this very same system with only a Gig of RAM and it was far snappier than KDE 4.9.

[Waldo22]

I know this has been touched on before, but you can easily run any of your favorite KDE apps within LXDE, and still save a lot of ram.  Works very well here...

[Georgetoon]

I know this has been touched on before, but you can easily run any of your favorite KDE apps within LXDE, and still save a lot of ram.  Works very well here...

Oh, yes.  Unfortunately, I spoke too soon.  I was in LXDE, plugged in my passport uSB drive and it wouldnot mount.  So, I logged off and back into KDE..using KDE now.  -sigh-

EDIT -- Wait...Passport USB will mount in Dolphin in LXDE, It won't mount using PCManFM 1.1.0.

EDIT again -- Error details read:  "Cannot get volume.fstype.alternative." fstype.

[horusfalcon]

You might try:

Fluxbox
IceWM
WindowMaker
WmII
FVWM2

I'm running both KDE4 and LXDE on 2 gigs of RAM, but on an Intel Core Duo 1.86 GHz CPU.  I've personally played with all of the environments above, and some are more "ready for prime-time" than others.  When you go light on the DE, you inevitably make a tradeoff between slick and pretty on one side and speedy and responsive on the other.

LXDE is a very good balance between the two sets.  Of the rest I mention, probably WIndowMaker and IceWM are the ones I liked best, but try for yourself and see what you like.  If you have the drive space, they will all run "alongside" each other peaceably enough... just select the one you need for a particular purpose from your Session menu at login.

Later On,
D

[zorlac]

I've been able to nurse my old (Sproggy's edition) XFCE installation to the current revision (with forum help  )  on my laptop with dual 1.8Ghz cpu's & 1GB of ram and I'm happy with it.
I also run it on an old 1ghz AMD machine with 768MB of ram & it runs fine there too.

[JohnW_57]

A new lightweight DE is Razor-QT  (in testing atm).
Released version is at 0.5.1

It's working but in still in heavily development.
Seen already a distro using as default DE. 

JohnW