hi, finally found the time to work a little on LXDE: I’ve prepared a second round of slackbuilds and packages based mainly on the git version of the various components (many improvements in there).
hope I haven’t missed anything of the things spotted (still have to do experiments with suspend).
maybe is better if I just cut and paste from the README.txt of the download folder
LXDE for slackware current -------------------------- many of the slackbuilds here are from alien bob's repository and slackbuilds.org http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/lxde/build/ http://slackbuilds.org/ I simply adapted/updated some things to build on current and added some others. You can check the build scripts used in the "build" folder: LXDE.SlackBuild is the script to launch (it uses a build queue, it's a modified version of kde build script). I updated the version of the stuff beyond the latest stable packages on sourceforge, as on git there's lotta new interesting stuff going on: - new libfm and pcmanfm with automounting/udisks support - new lxappearance (this is version 2, renamed in the build script) - many translation and other updates How to use: * install the packages for your architecture: - the i486 ones if you are running slackware-current - the x86_64 ones if you are running slackware64-current packages are UNTESTED on 13.1 (but, who knows, they might work ;) ) * be sure to have installed the packages tango-icon-theme (for the default desktop icons/menu theme), vte (for lxterminal), atk, glib, pango, cairo and gtk+2 from the official slackware repository (obviously also X packages :P). * run xwmconfig as user and choose the lxde session. * start/restart X. * if you want to run lxdm as the session manager (optional) apply the patch that you can find in this directory (instructions are inside the patch itself) to /etc/rc.d/rc.4 ************************************** WARNING! ************************************** these packages include *one* update of the standard slackware packages, glib2, but unfortunately is needed for the new libfm. http://blog.lxde.org/?p=768 if you find any problems report them on this linuxquestion thread
I’m only a little disappointed for having to upgrade glib2 but, you know, it’s testing stuff 🙂
soon I’ll try to do branches about these packages on my slackbuilds.org fork so I can use this stuff in my sbopkg queue: for eric scripts I think I’ll do a first commit in the corresponding branch adding the original script and a second one with the modified version (I tried to follow the autools-template).
you can find on the download page also a .tar of the build folder (with the sources folder and links in the slackbuilds folders too, for easy self-building).
happy testing! 🙂
EDIT: looks like suspend works! 😀