Hello all,
I'm new here and quite new to the linux world in general; I was wondering if it's possible to use portable applications in a lxde distribution, such as those you can find at http://portablelinuxapps.org/ .
I'm interested in installing something along the lines of Lubuntu or Mint LXDE (or maybe LMDE with LXDE but this may be too complicated for my knowledge), and such portable applications are something I find very interesting.
Thanks in advance for the help!
Portable apps?
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Marty Jack
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Re: Portable apps?
You can run anything you want with LXDE.
As a general rule Linux applications are built using either the GTK+ or Qt toolkits. The base for KDE is Qt, and the base for GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE is GTK+, so you are slightly better off using the one that corresponds to your desktop. One major difference between LXDE and the other desktop environments is that LXDE doesn't have their own library on top of GTK+ or Qt. That is one of the things that makes it lighter and you are able to use pretty much anything with it, provided you are willing to install the dependencies.
(Unlike the others, LXDE also doesn't have their own window manager, which is the part of the system that controls window placement, so you need to pick one; we also don't enforce a choice of display manager, which is the part of the system that lets you log in.)
As a general rule Linux applications are built using either the GTK+ or Qt toolkits. The base for KDE is Qt, and the base for GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE is GTK+, so you are slightly better off using the one that corresponds to your desktop. One major difference between LXDE and the other desktop environments is that LXDE doesn't have their own library on top of GTK+ or Qt. That is one of the things that makes it lighter and you are able to use pretty much anything with it, provided you are willing to install the dependencies.
(Unlike the others, LXDE also doesn't have their own window manager, which is the part of the system that controls window placement, so you need to pick one; we also don't enforce a choice of display manager, which is the part of the system that lets you log in.)