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Hi. I run LFS, what are the dependencies for LXDE?

Hi, I run LFS.

It's designed to be GTK and X, period.
The absolutely minimal setup is lxsession + lxpanel + some display manager + some window manager

You need a display manager, Slim works well; you need a window manager, Openbox or Compiz are frequently used with LXDE

You should have hicolor-icon-theme and shared-mime-info
Remember lxmenu-data + menu-cache -> lxpanel or else you won't have a menu
Remember --sysconfdir=/etc, it will not hurt to use it for everything

You can use any applications you like with it, but if you decide on
LXTerminal needs vte
LXMusic needs xmms2

If you want to shut down or reboot from the logout screen, you need ConsoleKit.

Start the display manager from inittab 5

Start the window manager from /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/desktop.conf containing your choice e.g.
[Session]
#window_manager=fluxbox
#window_manager=openbox
window_manager=compiz ccp

Start the panel from /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart containing
@lxpanel --profile LXDE

This is also a good place to put anything else you want to run; I have
xset s off
xset s noblank
xset dpms 600 600 600

Make sure you have a login shell somewhere when you start or you won't have your profile run; I use
login_cmd bash -l -c "/usr/bin/lxsession -s LXDE"
in my /etc/slim.conf

Thank you very much. LXDE is light, and it seems quite light on dependencies as well. TWM and links -g are what I'm using now. I have gtk. Thanks,

Dragos240