On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:21:58AM -0500, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 07:27:47AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > phi debian wrote: > > >Jeez, welcome lxde, adieu gnome3 !!! > > > > > >I installed a fresh debian in a guest as server, then apt-get install lxde. > > > > > >In a matter of minute I got a theme, with solid backgroud, my > > >panel on the right, some usual goodies like synaptic, > > >update-manager-gnome, > > > > > >So I know I will be able to move to this. > > > > > <snip> > > > > I installed lxde also. Big surprise: it pulled in 286 packages! And > > I got yet another filemanager, network manager and a display manager > > that I neither need nor wanted. Is there a truly lightweight install > > of lxde? > ---end quoted text--- > > Absolutely, install OpenBox sans LXDE. > And then you can try adding things like lxpanel and other LXDE components. That *may* help you avoid the 286 packages. Some of those packages are helpful, though. gpicview, for instance, is a nice lightweight photo viewer that gets installed with LXDE.
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