My Pi 3 Install Log (2): LXDE on Raspbian Jessie (Lite)

(1.5 hrs)

Jessie lite has no GUI, to add it back?

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=133691

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Need 4 things:

1. Xorg Display Server
2. Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE) or XFCE Desktop Environment (XFCE) or MATE Desktop Environment (MATE)
3. Openbox Window Manager (LXDE) or XFWM Window Manager (XFCE) or Marco Window Manager (MATE)
4. LightDM Login Manager

# install Xorg

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends xserver-xorg
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends xinit

# install LXDE (80.1MB → 260 MB), including OpenBox Window Manager by default
sudo apt-get install lxde-core lxappearance

# install LightDM login manager
sudo apt-get install lightdm

}

‘df -h’ 1.4G used

now , start GUI (LXDE 8.0 session) by

startx

File manager> applications>  system tools>  task manager>

Memory only 81MB of 925MB used.  Great!

But within applications folder pretty much empty.

That’s because i used lxde lite, the .desktop file is there (like launch file in mac) but not executables installed yet.

Tried web browser on task bar, got error:

“Invalid desktop entry file: ‘/usr/share/applications/lxde-x-www-browser.desktop’

Side:  See http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXDE:Questions

"x-www-browser", which in fact is a symbolic link to whatever browser the admin chooses.

# update-alternatives --config x-www-browserupdate-alternatives --config x-www-browser

Okay, apt-get midori

Side:

Lightweight Browsers:

• chromium
• midori
• epiphany

Lightweight Desktop Environments/Window Managers:

• LXDE
• openbox
• fluxbox
• icewm
• XFCE

Lightweight Documents:

• LyX (not sure how lightweight this is but it is very good; for extreme lightweight use plain latex.
• abiword
• gnumeric