LXQt on FreeBSD

LXQt is the Qt port and the upcoming version 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}}

Review D5002 (import some components, r426375)

PR 215650 for support in Porters Handbook.

1. Clone the development KDE repository (area51):

% mkdir plasma5 ; cd plasma5
% svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/branches/plasma5/KDE .

2. Fetch kdemerge script:

% fetch http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/Tools/scripts/area51 -o ~/kdemerge

3. Merge the KDE components into the official ports tree:

# sh kdemerge -d plasma5 /usr/ports

3. Clone the LXQt repository.

% fetch https://subversion.assembla.com/svn/lxqt/trunk/Tools/scripts/lxqtmerge

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
• 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/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 (meta-port)
• x11/lxqt-runner
• x11/lxqt-runner-l10n
• x11/qterminal (PR 0.7.1)
• x11/qterminal-l10n
• x11-fm/pcmanfm-qt
• x11-fm/pcmanfmqt-l10n
• x11-toolkits/qtermwidget (PR 0.7.1)
• x11-wm/lxqt (meta-port)
• 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

The QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME variable is not well defined, replace lxqt by qt5ct.

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

You must install additional widget styles.

• Breeze is the default Qt style of Plasma (it supports Qt4/Qt5 and GTK2/GTK3 toolkits)
• Adwaita is the default GNOME theme (it supports only GTK2/GTK3 toolkits. For Qt4/Qt5 support, install x11-themes/adwaita-qt4 or x11-themes/adwaita-qt5)

Create .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini file:

[Settings]
gtk-theme-name = Adwaita # or Breeze
gtk-font-name = DejaVu Sans 11}}}

==== Support of GTK2 ====

Create `.gtkrc-2.0` file:

{{{
include "/usr/local/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"}}}

For Breeze theme:

{{{
include "/usr/local/share/themes/Breeze/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"}}}

And add '''GTK2_RC_FILES''' variable in `.xinitrc`:

{{{#!highlight sh
#!/bin/sh

[...]

export GTK2_RC_FILES="$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0"

Install misc/qt5ct, and select style in Appearance tab, or in .config/lxqt/lxqt.conf replace Fusion by new style (for example adwaita):

[...]

[Qt]
style=adwaita}}}

==== Support of QT4 ====

Install `misc/qt4-qtconfig`, then run '''qtconfig-qt4''' (you can check in `.config/Trolltech.conf` the value of '''style''' variable).

=== Changing the window manager ===

By default it's Openbox, Kwin is also available:

{{{
# pkg install plasma5-kwin}}}

Then go to '''Preferences''' -> '''LXQt settings''' -> '''Session settings''' and select `kwin_x11`.

== TODO ==

 * Port libsysstat (currently it requires some Linuxisms, `/proc` and `/sys/devices`)

== Contact ==
 
 * Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen ([[https://github.com/jsm222|GitHub profile: jsm222]])
 * olivierd

== Contributors ==