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I'm using LXDE over Ubuntu 16.04.

My issue is that I can change desktop preferences (like center, tile, stretch) from gdm.

But when I login with LXDE, I can't find 'Desktop Preferences' tab/menu anywhere. I tried right clicking the moment I login, but I don't get any option like that.

Well I googled it and found the in lxde, there are two ways to do that:

  1. Right click -> Desktop Pref.
  2. Menu -> Preferences -> Desktop Pref.

I tried both now.

Prakhar
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  • FYI: Lubuntu 16.04 LTS being a flavor of Ubuntu had only 3 years of supported life (https://lubuntu.me/xenial-5-released/ http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2019/03/01/ubuntu-16-04-6-lts-released/) which ended 2019-April. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server (no desktop) or Desktop (Unity 7) have 5 years of supported life and are still supported. Refer release notes, or use `ubuntu-support-status` or your own system to confirm this is the case. This is just informational to let you know LXDE security is all on you for 16.04. – guiverc Jun 21 '20 at 22:28
  • Hey thanks for the information. What kind of security issues can I have? I use it as a personal machine for light purposes (studying+browsing+movies) only. Also I never install any ubuntu updates as it messes up my ubuntu installation so now I use vanilla 16.04 – Prakhar Jun 23 '20 at 10:08
  • If you're not online there will be no security issues, if you're back-porting all security upgrades yourself (re-compiling your source code etc) then you'll be covered too. I don't monitor the security flaws detected, and with most LXDE devs/coders having gone (over to LXQt) upstream aren't patching much anyway so security is all on you. You're not that much at risk, but risk is still there (as I mentioned in prior comment, use `ubuntu-support-status` to view the packages that no longer receive patches/security-fixes for.. and rely on you to maintain yourself..) – guiverc Jun 23 '20 at 10:15

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It seems that these preferences can be access via command line.

If you right click on your desktop, and clock on open terminal, you can try these commands:

Open the preference dialog box

sudo pcmanfm --desktop-pref

One liner to set desktop preference to center

sudo pcmanfm --wallpaper-mode=center

Additional information can be found at the pcmanfm man page (pcmanfm is the lxde file manager): https://www.mankier.com/1/pcmanfm

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