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This post is inspired by one of my geek friends. She totally loves Linux and keeps experimenting it. She suggested I try LXDE as my desktop manager on Linux. The “Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment” is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment. I wasn’t disappointed when I installed it. It’s lightening fast and loads up in no time. Following are some of it’s features:

Lightweight
It needs less CPU and performs extremely well with reasonable memory.
Fast
It runs well even on older computers produced in 1999.
Energy saving
It requires less energy to perform tasks to other systems on the market.
Simply Beautiful
It includes an internationalized and polished user interface powered by GTK+ 2.
Easy to use
It provides a choice to use the simple eeepc like Launcher user interface or a MS Windows like application panel.
Customizable
It is easy to customize the look and feel of LXDE.
Additional Features
It offers additional features like tabbed file browsing or menu run dialogs known from operating systems like Mac OS. Icons of new applications show up after install on desktop.
Desktop independent
Every component can be used independently from other components of LXDE offering the flexibility to use LXDE parts with different Unix like systems.
Standard compliant
It follows standards as specified by freedesktop.org.

Installing LXDE on Ubuntu 10.04 is fairly easy. As the repository of LXDE is part of software sources in Ubuntu 10.04 all you have to do is run the following command:

sudo apt-get install lxde

Once installed you can either reboot or re-login to change the session with LXDE. Following are some of the screenshots:

Enjoy the light weight and fast LXDE desktop on your Ubuntu machine.