Difference between revisions of "LXQt"

Revision as of 10:25, February 7, 2015

About LXQt

LXQt is a lightweight Desktop environment. Some LXDE developers decided to create a Qt based version of their Desktop environment, it's name was lxde-qt. Around the same time some other people were working on a different minimal Qt based DE called razor-qt. When some developers of those projects met they decided to join forces and work together on one project. LXQt was born.

Installation

It is recommended to set the LXQt mix-in before emerging it.

root # eselect profile add funtoo/1.0/linux-gnu/mix-ins/lxqt
root # emerge lxqt-meta

Starting LXQt

You can either use a display manager to log into your system and start LXQt, or you can log in on a TTY and run startx to start xinit by hand.

xinit

You should edit the file ~/.xinitrc if it already exists, and put "exec startlxqt" in there. If it doesn't exist you can create it like this:

user $ echo "exec startlxqt" > ~/.xinitrc

You might want to add the commands and options ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session to the exec to start it with ConsoleKit and DBus. In this case you also need to add ConsoleKit to the default runlevel:

root # rc-update add consolekit default
root # rc

Login Manager

Please take a look at http://www.funtoo.org/Package:XDM_%28Display_Manager%29 for this.

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 {{console|body=$##i## echo "exec startlxqt" > ~/.xinitrc}}
-You might want to add the commands and options {{c|ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session}} to the {{c|exec]}} to start it with ConsoleKit and DBus.
+You might want to add the commands and options {{c|ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session}} to the {{c|exec}} to start it with ConsoleKit and DBus.
 In this case you also need to add ConsoleKit to the default runlevel: