Any experience with LXDE?

[zvi]

Right now, I use Ubuntu, which occasionally feels a whee bit sluggish (particularly when I use FF, as I'm still using 3.0; I haven't quite wanted to do the upgrade to 3.5 before it was in the official repos. I am giving deep, deep thought to just switching to Chromium.)

I got a new-to-me laptop and put Xubuntu on it, which seems zippier, but frustrating to customize (Particularly the menus, I have to edit and create .desktop files, which is not exactly a barrel of monkeys, but not the least fun time I've ever had either.)

I was wondering if anyone were familiar with LXDE, how it is to use, whether it has a menu editor, where I would go for tips and tricks? Thanks for any help you can give.

Comments

[zvi]

Did you just customize appearance, or did you find a menu editor?

[draigwen]

I'm fairly sure there was a menu editor in XFCE last time I used it a year or two ago. Although back then the menu editor was broken so maybe they withdrew it rather than fixing it?

*checks synaptic* the xfdesktop4 package that I have as an option definitely says 'menu manager'.

[zvi]

I'm using the Karmic beta, and XFCE 4.6 has pulled the menu editor for severe brokenness, further research has revealed.

[jesse_the_k]

XFCE scatters its system-modification utilities like sand dollars on the beach, and unfortunately my netbook is out on loan right now so I can't be very specific.

So, in System -> Appearance or Accessories -> Settings or some darn place, there's a window with around 20 system-management utilities. One permitted me to define which applications would go in which category of the panel's Applications menu. It's *not* called "Menu Editor"—that one only changes what's available from the context menu in the file manager.

Sorry I can't be more helpful, but it's why I'm sticking with factory-installed OSes.