In the following article I'm going to show you how to install two really light desktops on our operating system LinuxUbuntu 12.04, although it is also functional for previous versions or systems based on Debian.
These two desks, LXDE y Xfce They stand out for being especially light and designed for machines with scarce system resources, I have it installed Xfce in a Pentium IV with 512Mb of Ram and the truth is that it goes smoothly, making the response system fast and giving my old computer a new life.
Install these two desks in Ubuntu 12.04 It is simple as few things can be, since Ubuntu has two complete distros specific for these two desktops, one is Xubuntu (Xfce) and the other is Lubuntu (LXDE).
It must be said that the installation of these two new desks will be done entirely from the linux terminal.
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How to install LXDE desktop
We will update first the list of repositories with the command:
sudo apt-get update
Second we will update the whole system:
sudo apt-get upgrade
Third we will install the desktop LXDE:
sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop
With this we will have installed LXDE in our team, to execute it we will only have log out current and open a new session by selecting the option LXDE from the login screen.
How to install Xfce desktop
In the same way as before, we will update the package list:
sudo apt-get update
Now we will update the whole system:
sudo apt-get upgrade
Finally install Xfce:
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
To log in to Xfce, we will have to close current session and open a new session by selecting this desktop from the Login screen.
More information - RazorQT, a lightweight desktop for your Ubuntu
14 comments, leave yours
Hear a question, which is faster LXDE or KDE, sorry for distorting but it intrigues me a lot.
Without a doubt LXDE since it is much lighter.
Thank you very much, I am going to integrate it to my Linux Mint
KDE is the heaviest, XFCE and LXDE, I prefer XFCE with the bar down "XP-like" they are better, even more if you lower the screen resolution from 1080p to 720p, it is slightly less than half the work for graphics the change of resolution.
logical what is lxde
Hear another question, LXDE is compatible with Compiz effects?
Not only in pentiums, I have an AMD64 X3 at 3.2 ghz, with an AMD HD 4250 and XFCE at 720p it is much more fluid than Unity or Unity 2d, Gnome Shell or Cinnamon.
Now I have a problem at the beginning, on the select desktop screen, I get a long list, so long that it does not fit on the screen and therefore I cannot give it to the accept option ... it does not let me enter any other desktop other than unity, when I have them all installed ... what can I do?
On my ibm t23 with pentium 3 1ghz 256 mb RAM, the xfce works sooo well
I have tried lxde, but I would think xubuntu has more support!
Hello, a question yp tenog ubuntu 16.04 in dual boot with windows 10 from grub 2, is it possible to use an environment like xfce without any problem with the boot of the two systems? I have a pc with good resources but if it draws attention to the idea of making its performance more fluid.
I do not know
I already installed xfce but it does not load my desktop, gnome keeps appearing. what I do
FIRST you choose the user and then you change the desktop environment (that happened to me too)