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[FrankRizz0]

I have recently installed this DM, and was just curious what other people are using for eye candy. I really enjoy using this DM, but it does lack in eye candy ( in my opinion anyhow ). Some tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[pianosaurus]

Since lxde is a collection of independent applications, I decided to just go with lxpanel and compiz. Might not be your cup of tea, though.
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[FrankRizz0]

I installed screenlets and compiz which gives it some nice eye candy. Not too sure what else I could add, I'm mainly a KDE user.

[taipan67]

I tried out LXDE a while ago, although i installed the individual components that aroused my curiosity rather than the whole thing from the meta-package. I didn't like it enough to use it day-to-day, but it has been the basis of my current ethos of a minimalist approach.

Eye-candy is, to coin a phrase, "in the eye of the beholder". My present idea of an aesthetically pleasing environment is one that's clean and responsive, and i'm getting that right now from a home-brewed assembly based on openbox as it's window-manager, rxvt-unicode as it's terminal, and thunar as it's file-manager. Thunar pulls in enough of Xfce's backend stuff to mean i've got it's settings-manager whether i want it or not, so i don't need lxappearance, and since those backend-dep's also mean that xfce4-session is a relatively small addition, i'm intending to add that as my session-manager and write my own collection of init-scripts based on the Xfce ones on my older system.

I haven't found a panel i like, yet, and am managing well enough with openbox's workspace-menu to navigate between windows.

I'll probably add conky to this concoction, if only to have a clock visible in the absence of a panel, but that may change in favour of one of the desklet-combo's - though they all seem pretty old and unmaintained at first glance...

I've experimented with xcompmgr and transset-df (needs a hack for x86) in combination with openbox before, and it had enough potential to make it worth further investigation, particularly when it's minimal dep's are compared to those of compiz or cairo-compmgr.

I wasn't a big enough fan of avant-window-navigator's python-based dep's to give it a try, but if it's eye-candy you're after (in the conventional sense), you might want to have a look at it...

So as i said, although i'm not using LXDE as intended, i'm very much indebted to it's developers for opening my eyes to the possibilities available to me of putting together a similar collection of packages, tailored precisely to my own needs and wonts.
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