LXQt
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In early 2013, Hong Jen Yee "PCMan" started porting LXDE components to Qt. The first preview of LXDE-Qt was released on July 3rd, 2013. On July 21st, it was announced that Razor-qt (a desktop similar in design to LXDE) and LXDE were merging.
The result is LXQt, a desktop built on Qt which partly uses Razor-qt and LXDE components. While development is mainly focused on LXQt, the GTK+ 2 version of LXDE will see continued development.
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Installation
You also need an icon theme to be installed. The default one is Oxygen, which can be installed with the oxygen-icons package.
For additional functionality, you may wish to install the following:
- Connman — Network manager like NetworkManager.
- LXQt Connman applet — LXQt system-tray applet for Connman.
- LXImage-Qt — Image viewer and screenshot tool for LXQt.
- ObConf-Qt — The Qt port of ObConf, the Openbox configuration tool.
- QTerminal — Lightweight Qt-based terminal emulator.
- SDDM — The recommended display manager for LXQt.
- XScreenSaver — A screen saver required for screen locking in LXQt.
Some LXQt panel plugins require extra packages to function, check the optional dependencies for lxqt-panel.
Starting the desktop
Using xinit
Append the following line to Xinitrc:
exec startlxqt
Graphical login
Choose LXQt Desktop from the menu in a display manager of choice.
Configuration
LXQt in general tries to provide GUI applications to change its settings. Configuration files are in ~/.config/lxqt
. This directory is initialized automatically. The default configuration for new users is found in /etc/xdg/lxqt
.
Replace Openbox
While Openbox is the default window manager for LXQt, you can specify a different window manager to use with LXQt via Session Settings, lxqt-config-session
; or by editing ~/.config/lxqt/session.conf
. Change the following line:
window_manager=openbox
to a window manager of choice:
window_manager=your_window_manager
Autostarting applications
To have X applications start on login, click the main menu from the LXQt -> Preferences -> LXQt Settings -> Session Settings. Alternatively, this can be launched with:
lxqt-config-session
From this window, click on "AutoStart" on the left side. Here you can add a new application to either the global autostart (launched in all sessions implementing the said specification) or your local autostart (labled LXQt Autostart) (See issue 746 for a bug related to this option).
Editing the Application Menu
It is possible to edit menu entries by editing their .desktop files stored in /usr/share/applications/lxqt-*.desktop
files. See Desktop entries.
Suggested applications
As LXQt is a lightweight desktop, a plain install will not provide many desktop applications. It is left to the user to choose what applications they wish to install. The Razor-qt wiki has a page which lists of number of useful Qt applications that you may wish to install. Also see the List of applications page for a comprehensive list of applications available in Arch.