Looks like the beta for 15... been running this on one of the 686 desktop machines at work. Shaping up to be a nice release.

Just loaded jessie with lxde after trying several lightweight distros on a gateway 7145 laptop with 512 MB RAM. I am very pleased in that it is plenty snappy for most things and iceweasel is recent enough so that I can sync with my other linux boxes. And I like the way lxde looks, so I'm home for a while I think. I'm sure there are lighter DEs and WMs - I loaded jessie with xfce, vector linux, macpup, peppermint 5, but but all were either too laggy, had old versions of firefox and not compatible across my other devices,or just not something I liked to look at - not a slam, just personal taste. Anyway, jessie with lxde seems to fit the bill nicely. Now if I can figure out how to disable the touchpad it will be pretty much perfect.

Try
If that works you make a menu entry, panel launcher, or a desktop launcher for it.

I have a laptop I use rarely. Hate the touchpad. That works great.

You should also have a
~/.config/openbox/autostart

file because Lxde is built on top of OB.
added to that file should kill it during the login. You will not be able to use the touchpad at all then though. To look up the command for that I had to fire the laptop up. Did it on my lap even. Was nice to have the touchpad work this time though.

You may find that autostart file in some lxde ~/.foo file but I doubt it.

You should look at all the entries in there. I have Debian testing installed with OB on this desktop and it has a number of commands commented out in it and that is one of them. It is possible that their iteration of Lxde has the same thing.

As an aside; I am a Xfce user and find it damned near perfect. For me. Feel free to "slam" it all you want. I, for instance, when looking for a replacement for Gnome, installed Lxde. Works. Did not blow my skirt up at all. I like OB on its own a lot better. But that has nothing to do with your box or what ever you put on it. None of us have to see or use what you have on there. And you don't have to see or use whatever crazy crap I am using

There is, according to Gnu/Linux critics, an insane number of options for way too many things for any sensible user to ever make heads or tails of. I think they are not giving users enough credit. All these things exist because sometime some user came up with the idea. Others liked it and now it has become a standard choice. The inspiration for coming up with something different was probably the result of trying what was already available, just like you did, and finding it not what they wanted.

Lxde is pretty new. The development by Canonical of Unity seems to have quite drastically increased its popularity. It does run pretty well on low resource boxes.

It is also one that is going to be used on my new loaner external drive setup. This is a drive I loan to people so they can have a number of distros with various DEs preconfigured and ready to run at pretty much installed speed. Used OpenBox on one install on my current setup. Gets no interest what so ever which is kind of a bummer. But I need to redo it and so Lxde is going on there in place of OB. Have Mate, Cinnamon, Gnome Shell, Kde and Xfce on there as well.

Only had Debian and Mageia on there this last time. Need to find another distro to add.

Presently trying Sparky Linux CLI.

After you find wicd-curses, then
apt'ing openbox is fine. Seems
like a good debian ISO. Up to
2 GB without Libre and just a few
other things. Maybe mtpaint too.

Thank widget for the info. synclient touchpadoff=1 & works like a charm from the command line! I'll fool around with making a shortcut - just for the fun of it, but cli works just fine.
I checked /.config/autostart and also /.config/openbox but don't seem to have the autostart file - ls-a .config/autostart returns only . .. print-applet.desktop and ls-a .config/openbox returns . .. lxde-rc.xml so cli it is for now.
Thanks again.

Sorry, figured that being based on OB it would have an autostart file somewhere. Pretty easy way to control what comes up.

Lxde may have a config tool to set that up. Don't know myself. Haven't looked at it for a couple years.

Lubuntu was one of the things I tried to help out when I was doing Ubuntu-testing. Still have the first probationally approved ISO for them somewhere. Was a testing ISO from a couple years before they were approved as a "family" member but were permitted to use the name Lubuntu anyway.

I think it is the best thing Canonical puts out now.

I'm one of the minority I guess in that I really like unity. I think the dash and lenses are the coolest thing out there - bar none but it's not lightweight at all, so that makes this off topic I suppose. Thanks for the info. It helped alot.

Well it is good to know someone, somewhere likes Unity. A lot of work went into it.

colorpurple21859 wrote on 03-12-15 01:18 PM:
Within the very last week, antiX recently came out with a new MX-14.4 XFCE version nicknamed "Symbiosis". Will have to take a look at this antiX as well.

Thanks!

Just tried this last night- excellent offering from AntiCap and crew, still need to try it out some more to get a solid opinion, but generally good so far.

I've been using AntiX since about 2007 and do like it's excellent utility for it's simplicity. AntiX-base installs are great for older hardware and have good media capablities out of the box. Very minimal tweaking required (if that's your thing) and installs in just under 1 GB if I'm not mistaken. Since it's based on Debian you can install a wide variety of packages without any issues. Or if you are not worried about space, just install AntiX-Full and have a fully functioning Debian-ish install with a ton of useful packages for most everybody OOB.