How to set up development environment for lxde development?

[gastly]

Hello,
I want to dive into hacking LXDE but how do I go about setting up a development environment?
I have Lubuntu installed and I want to test and build the latest lxde without affecting my current stable setup.
I've created a separate user for development purposes, is it possible to have lxde and all it's components installed to that user's home directory?

[Marty Jack]

It depends on what part you want to work on. For the session manager or panel, the way I do it is ssh in from a second machine, kill the real one, and run the one you are debugging directly from the build directory. There is no real need to have a separate user account.

For a normal user mode program, you can debug that the same way you would debug any normal user mode program.

[gastly]

Thanks for the reply Marty
The problem is I don't have a second machine to ssh from. The reason I asked this question was that when I was installing lxde from source it complained about sysconfdir not being /etc. So I thought it won't work when run from my home dir, but it did
I'm using a separate account since I really want to isolate the test environment and keep things clean.
Currently I'm using xephyr like I used to do when testing out KDE

Cheers
- Bhaskar