1. LXDEsystems.com

2. LXDE

Most Open Source projects started in Europe.

LXDE is one of the first Open Source projects from Taiwan, that developed into a global project and is supported by a growing community.

Key developers of LXDE come from Taiwan.

It is an opportunity for Taiwanese companies to work together easily with world class developers.

3. What is LXDE

LXDE: short for Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment

LX: also Linux

LXDE is especially designed for new generation devices like netbooks and small computers.

LXDE is an energy savy and extremely fast and performing desktop solution.

4. LXDE

needs

less RAM

less CPU

less disk space

offers

a full featured desktop solution

multilanguage support

5. What is LXDEsystems

LXDEsystems is the international European based company which owns and sponsors LXDE.

LXDEsystems holds the copyright to most of the codebase of LXDE.

LXDE is available under terms of the GNU General Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements.

6. LXDE Components

Each component of LXDE can run independently

PCManFM, LXSession / LXSession_Lite, LXAppearance, GPicView, Leafpad, LXTerminal, Xarchiver, LXNM

7. PCManFM

PCManFM

The ultimate fast and robust file manager.

It provides tabbed-browsing and desktop icons with low system resource usage

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• The ultimate lightweight and feature-rich file manager with tabs and volume-management support

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• The file manager can use totally different layout, if you like

10. LXPanel

Feature-rich yet user-friendly desktop panel

providing most crucial functions you expect from a desktop panel.

Configuration is done through GUI

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• The panel can generate menu for installed applications automatically from *.desktop files

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• The panel can be configured from GUI preference dialog, and there is no need to edit config files

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• It provides a "Run" dialog with autocompletion

14. LXDE Components

LXSession / LXSession_Lite: Standard-compliant X11 session manager with shutdown/reboot/suspend supports via HAL and gdm (LXSession Lite is a stripped-down lightweight version without X11 session management support, and it's more stable)

LXAppearance: LXAppearance is a new feature-rich GTK+ theme switcher able to change GTK+ themes, icon themes, and fonts used by applications

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• You can change the theme, icons, and fonts used by applications easily.

16. LXDE Components

Openbox: Lightweight, standard-compliant, and highly-configurable window manager (This is not developed by us, but we use it as our default window manager). This can be replaced by any other window manager like icewm, fluxbox, metacity, ...etc.

GPicView: A very simple, fast, and lightweight image viewer featuring immediate startup.

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• The default image viewer - GPicview features lightening fast startup and intuitive interface

18. LXDE Components

Leafpad: Lightweight and simple text editor (This is not developed by us, but we suggest using this as default text editor).

LXTerminal: Desktop-independent VTE-based terminal emulator for LXDE without any unnecessary dependency (All instances share the same process to reduce memory usage)

LXTask: LX task manager / system monitor

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• Lightweight task manager / system monitor.

20. LXDE Components

XArchiver: Lightweight, fast, and desktop-independent gtk+-based file archiver (This is not developed by us, but we suggest using this as default archiver).

LXNM (still under development): Lightweight network connection helper daemon for LXDE supporting wireless connections (Linux-only)

21. Which distributions use LXDE

PUD GNU/Linux: Ubuntu-based installable live cd with LXDE

TinyMe: PCLinuxOS-based tiny distro using some components of LXDE

Slitaz: Extremely small live cd using most of the components of LXDE

Greenie: Ubuntu-based OS with LXDE and GNOME desktop enviroments

22. Which distributions use LXDE

Ubuntulite: Member of Ubuntu Derivatives featuring LXDE

Vectorlinux LITE: VectorLinux LITE edition

Myah OS 3.0 Box edition: LXDE flavor of Myah OS

gOS3, commercial flavor of LXDE with Google Gadgets

23. Why LXDE

There are already numerous good Linux desktop environments like KDE, GNOME, XFCE on the market.

None of these is adapted and customized for the smaller low cost devices as LXDE.

24. International Development

LXDE involves people from several countries in Asia (Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, India)

in Europe (Germany, Italy, France)

in North America (US)

Because of this diverse background of developers, multi-language support has always been a key feature of LXDE.

25. LXDE is Green

LXDE saves energy.

LXDE prolongs the life cycle of hardware. Older Hardware can be used longer.

26. How does LXDE do the magic

1. LXDE team submitted patches to GTK+2.6+ toolkit.

2. GTK is commonly used in many Gnu/Linux distributions and allows applications to run on different plattforms.

3. LXDE optimizes functions of GTK for faster performance.

4. LXDE applications are extensively tested and tweaked to increase performance.

27. Using gtk an advantage

By using GTK applications running on distributions using GTK, like Debian or Ubuntu, can be installed in a system using the LX desktop environment.

28. Business:What LXDEsystems offers

to companies

to distributions

to developers, designers and contributors

29. What LXDEsystems offersto companies:

commercial license agreements and adaption of LXDE code and design to partner needs

testing of hardware (companies can reduce hardware costs with LXDE)

maintenance and support of LXDE for product lines

porting of LXDE to different hardware architectures (mips, arm)

package maintenance and regular repository updates for product lines

30. What LXDEsystems offersto distributions

adaption of LXDE and its components to run on different Linux distributions

package maintenance for distributions

custom development

31. What LXDEsystems offersto contributors

fun in developing a cool system and by joining an international team

support to attend international community events

provision of new hardware for testing and coding through its partnership program with hardware manufacturers

freelancer and company positions as LXDEsystems is growing

32. How can people participate

1. Coders, Hackers, Developers

by joining code development

by joining our technical mailing list

by joining the IRC channel on irc.oftc.net#lxde

2. Designers

by submitting designs of desktop themes and icons

by joining the IRC channel

33. How can people participate

3. Other Contributors

by submitting bug reports

by joining our forum and general mailing list

by organizing and attending community events

by writing about LXDE in blogs, newspapers and publications

by linking to the LXDE.org and LXDEsystems.com website

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• More and more people are joining the LXDE project to create a fast, energy saving and truly freedom inspiring operating system.

• The future looks bright :-)

35. Thank You

lxde.org

lxdesystems.com

contact:

Mario Behling & Fred Chien

LXDE

Taiwan Mobile +886 960512275

Fax +49 721 151276230