Once the system is-whatever-installed, you have to give a personal touch the desktop to make it as we like , and unfortunately most distributions presents a LXDE bit spartan. Not that the combination GTK + Openbox can take over much, but enough to be comfortable.

This is possibly the most personal point all I’m going to write about LXDE , so it may have “disagreements style.” Anyway, all the distributions I’ve tried LXDE and have been many, just a delight to me at first glance: Lubuntu 11.04.

Maybe to many outdated or too see something blue, but has a nice style to be a working environment. As a visual theme and windows Lubuntu uses his own, based on Zuki Blues but with the polished details.

He “rescued” the issue of Lubuntu and I uploaded at this link. You have to download and unzip it into “~ /. Themes” (if there is created). Now is activated from the Openbox configuration tools and desktop appearance. To succeed it is essential to have installed GTK 2.x theme “murrine” , you will find in the package manager.

icon theme is Elementary , so you just have to download and decompress the file “~ /. icons” (if there is created). As they say, the same goes for an Elementary broken that for a disjointed …

just did not finish the blue panel, which also is one that can not be resized because the graph does not support it without breaking the image, so I left the panel in black. It might have purposely created a chart for the panel, but it is easier to access its configuration and use a color .

I’ve left a hundred percent opaque black, but not one hundred percent black. It can be configured easily using the color scale HTML and leaving it as we like:

Voila

With these small touches

LXDE stays nice , at least for my taste. If you want more beer you can install Compiz and a thousand other things, but you lose the charm of minimalism and lightness of memory that characterize it. Still, if you do not like my proposal, you have to choose from.