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Re: Should the LXQT desktop be included in Mageia?

Postby airmaik » Aug 14th, '14, 09:35

this picture looks like functional;

https://www.flickr.com/photos/99709873@N05/14711782130/?rb=1

the same from other distribution

https://www.flickr.com/photos/99709873@N05/14895423291/

do we need to see how the menu looks in general mageia because I do not think that it is more convenient to catch the half screen.
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Re: Should the LXQT desktop be included in Mageia?

Postby paiiou » Aug 14th, '14, 09:56

I finalized a small bash script, called up to every connection.
He allows, during a first connection, to copy the general files towards the user.

A file is needed, placed in /etc/xdg/autostart, to launch the script. Here is mine actu.desktop:
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[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Actu
Comment=Update local configuration
Exec=/etc/lxqt/actu.sh
Icon=
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false


And here is the script /etc/lxqt/actu.sh:
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#!/bin/bash
# Réalisé le 13-08-2014

if [[ ! -s ~/.config/lxqt/actu.conf ]]; then
   mkdir -p ~/.config/pcmanfm-qt/lxqt/
   mkdir -p ~/.config/lxqt
   echo "$(date)" > ~/.config/lxqt/actu.conf
   cp -f /etc/lxqt/lxqt.conf ~/.config/lxqt/lxqt.conf
   cp -f /etc/lxqt/session.conf ~/.config/lxqt/session.conf
   cp -f /etc/lxqt/panel.conf ~/.config/lxqt/panel.conf
   cp -f /etc/pcmanfm-qt/lxqt/settings.conf ~/.config/pcmanfm-qt/lxqt/settings.conf
   cp -f /etc/xdg/openbox/rc.xml ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml
fi
if [[ ! $(grep '\[Qt\]' ~/.config/Trolltech.conf) ]]; then
   echo "" >> ~/.config/Trolltech.conf
   echo "[Qt]" >> ~/.config/Trolltech.conf
   echo "style=Cleanlooks" >> ~/.config/Trolltech.conf
elif [[ ! $(grep 'style' ~/.config/Trolltech.conf) ]]; then
   sed -i '/\[Qt\]/a\style=Cleanlooks' ~/.config/Trolltech.conf
fi


The actu.conf file avoids the destruction of later modifications. Files are copied only in the first connection.
The end of the script also allows to configure the style of widgets
Last edited by doktor5000 on Dec 18th, '14, 01:10, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Should the LXQT desktop be included in Mageia?

Postby doktor5000 » Aug 14th, '14, 16:06

airmaik wrote:do we need to see how the menu looks in general mageia because I do not think that it is more convenient to catch the half screen.

Not sure what your problem is - if you have a lot of applications installed, menu will be bigger to show all the applications.

If you only task-lxqt-minimal there will be much less menu entries.
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Re: Should the LXQT desktop be included in Mageia?

Postby wintpe » Sep 17th, '14, 16:23

please...

before considering dropping rasorqt, consider that some may use it to de-plasma kde.

dont get me wrong, im going for lxqt, but there are still some kde things, from kwin im not sure its going to give me.

can we at least keep it in the repo,

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Re: Should the LXQT desktop be included in Mageia?

Postby doktor5000 » Sep 17th, '14, 19:36

wintpe wrote:before considering dropping rasorqt, consider that some may use it to de-plasma kde.

can we at least keep it in the repo,

No, Peter - that is not an option. lxqt is the successor and the next version of razorqt, and provides all the stuff that razor-qt provided and even a bit more.
What exactly do you miss from lxqt that razorqt provides?
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Re: Should the LXQT desktop be included in Mageia?

Postby wintpe » Sep 20th, '14, 01:31

That was my point, I did not know, but after reading a bit more........

it seems you can still use kwin with LXQT, so as you say, its not so much LXDE using

QT with rasorqt merged, it is more rasorqt taking LXDE to another phase,
im sure if you choose openbox it will look more like LXDE and
if you use kwin, it will be familiar to those of us who use rasorqt to de-plasma kde

so i think panic over for me.

It was just a concern being id finally settled on a desktop i liked and i then saw it disappearing

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Re: Should the LXQT desktop be included in Mageia?

Postby francois » Sep 30th, '14, 04:47

It should be included for sure. 8-)

Is there something wrong permanently or temporarily with the lxqt package presently available on:
http://mageia.madb.org/package/show/release/cauldron/application/0/name/task-lxqt

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Re: Should the LXQT desktop be included in Mageia?

Postby jkerr82508 » Sep 30th, '14, 08:59

francois wrote:Is there something wrong permanently or temporarily with the lxqt package presently available on:
http://mageia.madb.org/package/show/release/cauldron/application/0/name/task-lxqt

That package has been built for cauldron, the development version of Mageia.
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Cauldron

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Re: Should the LXQT desktop be included in Mageia?

Postby francois » Sep 30th, '14, 11:42

@jkerr:

I am installling cauldron as I am writing these lines.
Thanks a lot. :D

This is a hell of a change. I almost have the impression that my hdd is being rewritten anew. :o
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Re: Should the LXQT desktop be included in Mageia?

Postby jkerr82508 » Sep 30th, '14, 14:01

I hope that you read the warning on the page that I linked to. :)

If you are upgrading from Mageia 4, then almost every installed package will be replaced.

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Re: Re: Should the LXQT desktop be included in Mageia?

Postby doktor5000 » Sep 30th, '14, 16:47

Latest notes and status regarding lxqt can be found here: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/User:Doktor5 ... aging_TODO
I'm currently waiting for 0.8 to be released, this is already pending since nearly a month :/
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Re: Should the LXQT desktop be included in Mageia?

Postby francois » Oct 1st, '14, 01:47

jkerr82508 wrote:I hope that you read the warning on the page that I linked to. :)

If you are upgrading from Mageia 4, then almost every installed package will be replaced.

Jim


I like to experiment. So the precious data is well backed up. ;)
Everything is fine now. And I am into lxqt. At first glimpse funtioning pretty well.

Thanks.
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lxqt adjustments

Postby francois » Oct 1st, '14, 13:15

Will there be or is there a persistance feature for the content of the desktop of lxqt?

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Re: lxqt adjustments

Postby doktor5000 » Oct 1st, '14, 15:26

What do you mean by persistence? And please don't open a new thread for this, but use viewtopic.php?f=0&t=7604 as you did previously.
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Re: lxqt adjustments

Postby francois » Oct 1st, '14, 15:47

@docktor5000:
I was hesitating in starting this new one. Good that you intervene.

You can delete this thread, I will be at the other one. I though it was only a poll on lxqt.
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Re: lxqt adjustments

Postby doktor5000 » Oct 1st, '14, 15:51

francois wrote:You can delete this thread, I will be at the other one.

Threads are usually not deleted. I've merged it into the lxqt thread.

Please read the first line in first post:

doktor5000 in viewtopic.php?p=48104&f=8#p48104 wrote:edit doktor5000: thread with test results has been split of from LXQT poll thread: viewtopic.php?f=29&t=7510
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Re: Re: Should the LXQT desktop be included in Mageia?

Postby francois » Oct 1st, '14, 17:10

doktor5000 wrote:Latest notes and status regarding lxqt can be found here: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/User:Doktor5 ... aging_TODO
I'm currently waiting for 0.8 to be released, this is already pending since nearly a month :/


Thanks for the hyperlink. It is exactly what I was looking for. :D
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Re: lxqt adjustments

Postby doktor5000 » Oct 1st, '14, 18:05

You still didn't answer the previous question:
francois wrote:Will there be or is there a persistance feature for the content of the desktop of lxqt?

doktor5000 wrote:What do you mean by persistence?
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Re: Should the LXQT desktop be included in Mageia?

Postby francois » Oct 2nd, '14, 00:03

Is there a way in lxqt that the open windows and programs with their content will persist to a reboot, as it is the case for the kde desktop.

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Re: Re: Should the LXQT desktop be included in Mageia?

Postby mellow_moon » Oct 20th, '14, 20:31

0.8 has been released!
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Re: Re: Should the LXQT desktop be included in Mageia?

Postby doktor5000 » Oct 20th, '14, 23:56

And? Yes I'm aware, working on it - and no ETA yet when it will be complete.
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Re: Re: Should the LXQT desktop be included in Mageia?

Postby doktor5000 » Oct 25th, '14, 00:28

Complete lxqt-0.8 should be available via core/updates_testing in cauldron.
Everything built against QT5. Two new themes have been added - Numix Frost and Numix Dark from http://intialonso.github.io/
Also lxqt-config-randr has been replaced by lxqt-config-monitor, and lxqt-appswitcher has been deprecated.

feedback is appreciated.
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Re: Re: Should the LXQT desktop be included in Mageia?

Postby napcok » Oct 25th, '14, 16:26

@doktor5000:
Thank you for working on it. I like to test it as soon as possible.
How to install it... seems like task-lxqt in Cauldron is still 0.7.0 version.
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Re: Re: Should the LXQT desktop be included in Mageia?

Postby doktor5000 » Oct 25th, '14, 17:04

doktor5000 wrote:Complete lxqt-0.8 should be available via core/updates_testing in cauldron.

I've just submitted the push request today, so that it will be pushed to core/release and be included in final beta1 images.
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Re: Re: Should the LXQT desktop be included in Mageia?

Postby napcok » Oct 25th, '14, 17:32

Ok, I managed to install it by rebuilding and installing task-lxqt 0.8.0 from svn.

Feedback:
1. Broken translations - upstream issue.
2. There is compton-conf installed but not compton itself. Will it be imported to Mageia?
3. I'm really enjoing to use/test it. Lightweigt, nice looking and fast modern desktop environment :)

I will keep using it next days, and I will report issues if any.
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