LXQt on FreeBSD

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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.

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You can either choose unoffical binary repository or building from source with the ports system

I created an unofficial repository for 11-amd64 for lxqt-0.13.0.

For detailed binary installation instructions see http://lxqt-freebsd.schmitz.computer

1. Download the public key, and copy into /usr/local/etc/ssl/ (for example):

# fetch http://lxqt-freebsd.schmitz.computer/poudriere.cert
# mv -i poudriere.cert /usr/local/etc/ssl/

2. Create the following file, /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/lxqt.conf:

lxqt: {
        url: "pkg+http://lxqt-freebsd.schmitz.computer/packages/${ABI}",
        mirror_type: "srv",
        enabled: yes,
        signature_type: "pubkey",
        pubkey: "/usr/local/etc/ssl/poudriere.cert",
        priority: 100
}

% pkg install lxqt

you must clone and merge the LXQt repository.

The best way is to fetch lxqtmerge script.

Adjust LOCAL_REPO and PORTSDIR variables in the script before running it.

You'll need ca_root_nss and git if it is not already installed

% pkg install ca_root_nss

% pkg install git

% fetch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsm222/lxqt-freebsd/0.12/lxqtmerge.sh

Below different options:

usage: lxqtmerge.sh options

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

# lxqtmerge.sh -c
# lxqtmerge.sh -m

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

x11/lxqt-about-l10n
x11/lxqt-l10n
x11/compton-conf
x11/lxqt-compton-l10n
x11/lxqt-about
x11/lxqt-runner
x11/lxqt-runner-l10n
x11/lxqt-globalkeys-l10n
sysutils/lxqt-policykit-l10n
sysutils/lxqt-config-l10n
sysutils/libsysstat
sysutils/lxqt-admin-l10n
sysutils/lxqt-policykit
sysutils/lxqt-qtplugin
sysutils/lxqt-admin
sysutils/lxqt-config
editors/featherpad
x11-wm/lxqt-panel
x11-wm/obconfqt-l10n
x11-wm/lxqt-session
x11-wm/lxqt-panel-l10n
x11-wm/lxqt-session-l10n
x11-wm/obconf-qt
x11-wm/lxqt
security/lxqt-sudo
security/lxqt-openssh-askpass
security/lxqt-sudo-l10n
security/lxqt-openssh-l10n
audio/pavucontrol-qt
audio/pavucontrolqt-l10n
deskutils/lxqt-notificationd
deskutils/lxqt-notificationd-l10n
deskutils/qlipper
x11-themes/lxqt-themes

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

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

Using .xinitrc

% echo 'ck-launch-session /usr/local/bin/startlxqt' > ~/.xinitrc

Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen (GitHub profile: jsm222) jsm@
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LXQt on FreeBSD

Install the LXQt (0.13.0) desktop

Pre-compiled packages

From source

List of ports

Known issues (and fixes)

Tips

Starting the desktop

Using .xinitrc

FreeBSD WIKI