LXQt on FreeBSD

LXQt is the Qt port of LXDE, the Lightweight Desktop Environment. It is the product of the merge between the LXDE-Qt and the Razor-qt projects.

Heavily work in progress, it needs some components of Plasma 5 (the new major KDE’s workspace).

{{lxqt/lxqt-0.11.1.png?150 LXQt 0.11.1}}

The best way is to fetch lxqtmerge script. Adjust LOCAL_REPO and PORTSDIR variables in the script before running it.

% pkg install ca_root_nss

% pkg install git

% fetch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsm222/lxqt-freebsd/0.11/lxqtmerge.sh

Below different options:

usage: lxqtmerge options

options:
  -h    display this help
  -c    clone remote repository
  -m    merge into the ports tree
  -u    update local repository
  -r    revert changes

# lxqtmerge -c
# lxqtmerge -m

Now you are able to compile the meta-ports x11-wm/lxqt and x11/lxqt-l10n (translations of each LXQt components).

• audio/pavucontrol-qt
• audio/pavucontrolqt-l10n
• deskutils/lxqt-notificationd
• deskutils/lxqt-notificationd-l10n
• deskutils/qlipper
• devel/liblxqt
• devel/liblxqt-l10n
• devel/libqtxdg
• devel/lxqt-build-tools
• editors/featherpad
• graphics/lximage-qt
• graphics/lximageqt-l10n
• misc/lxqt-common
• security/lxqt-openssh-askpass
• security/lxqt-openssh-l10n
• security/lxqt-sudo
• security/lxqt-sudo-l10n
• sysutils/libsysstat
• sysutils/lxqt-admin
• sysutils/lxqt-admin-l10n
• sysutils/lxqt-config
• sysutils/lxqt-config-l10n
• sysutils/lxqt-policykit
• sysutils/lxqt-policykit-l10n
• sysutils/lxqt-qtplugin
• x11/compton-conf
• x11/libfm-qt
• x11/libfmqt-l10n
• x11/lxqt-about
• x11/lxqt-about-l10n
• x11/lxqt-compton-l10n
• x11/lxqt-globalkeys
• x11/lxqt-globalkeys-l10n
• x11/lxqt-l10n
• x11/lxqt-runner
• x11/lxqt-runner-l10n
• x11/plasma5-libkscreen
• x11/qterminal
• x11/qterminal-l10n
• x11-fm/pcmanfm-qt
• x11-fm/pcmanfmqt-l10n
• x11-toolkits/qtermwidget
• x11-wm/lxqt
• x11-wm/lxqt-panel
• x11-wm/lxqt-panel-l10n
• x11-wm/lxqt-session
• x11-wm/lxqt-session-l10n
• x11-wm/obconf-qt
• x11-wm/obconfqt-l10n

It's advised to use UTF-8 as character encoding, especially for Western Europeans users (some translation are not well displayed in settings widgets).

If PCManFM-qt crashes, when you leave your session, create the ~/Templates directory. Or install devel/xdg-user-dirs.

PCManFM-qt is able to use UDisks2 service (for removable storages), install sysutils/bsdisks.

% cp /usr/local/bin/startlxqt ~/.xinitrc

LXQt depends on ConsoleKit2 (fork, PR 202269). In ports tree only ConsoleKit is available (sysutils/consolekit). However it can be found in the Xfce development repository (see the FAQ).

1. Get the port:

svn co https://subversion.assembla.com/svn/xfce4/trunk/sysutils/consolekit

2. Copy it to your ports tree (Replacing the existing sysutils/consolekit)

• Remove previous files/ directory (patches are already in ConsoleKit2)

3. Rebuild every port (installed on your system), which depends of sysutils/consolekit.

• To know which ports need to be rebuild, try the following command:

pkg query %ro consolekit

If it's a fresh install, this command is better:

pkg rquery %ro consolekit

• Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen (GitHub profile: jsm222)
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