LXQt 1.4.0 for Slackware 15.0, Current, incl distributions based on Slackware

lancsuk · 11-14-2023, 07:19 PM

The LXQt team announces the release of LXQt 1.4.0

== Slackware 15.0 ==

Unfortunately, Slackware 15.0 KDE packages are not compatible with LXQT 1.4.0.
I recommend to install Slackware 15.0 without KDE series, or remove the Slack15.0 KDE series.

The required KDE deps are part of the installation anyway.

Code:

$ git clone https://gitlab.com/slackernetukbuilds/lxqt-snuk-stable.git 
$ cd lxqt-snuk-stable 
# sh build.sh

== Slackware -current ==

If KDE- Dependencies are not installed, run as root:

Code:

KDE=yes sh build.sh

Code:

$ git clone https://gitlab.com/slackernetukbuilds/lxqt-snuk-current.git 
$ cd lxqt-snuk-current 
# sh build.sh

Finally add the snuk tag to your /etc/slackpkg/blacklist

Code:

[0-9]+_snuk

If you would like to remove LXQt, run as root.

Code:

ls /var/log/packages/* | grep snuk | xargs removepkg

I'm considering to add an automate configuration, similar to the most distributions.

giomat · 11-15-2023, 01:57 AM

Many thanks, I was hoping for this

dchmelik · 11-15-2023, 10:59 PM

Can you still use KDE5 programs like konsole, dolphin, KATE, and does LXQt have a configuration program similar to systemsettings or is more like old GNOME that you're forced to configure with textfiles?

lancsuk · 11-16-2023, 02:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dchmelik

Can you still use KDE5 programs like konsole, dolphin, KATE, and does LXQt have a configuration program similar to systemsettings or is more like old GNOME that you're forced to configure with textfiles?

Yep, but I would recommend to install LXQt on Current, as already mentioned.....Slack15 KDE isn't compatible to LXQt 1.4.

Anyway, if you like, you can use kwin as LXQt WM as well.

https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-session...wmanagers.conf

Didier Spaier · 11-16-2023, 04:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lancsuk

Anyway, if you like, you can use kwin as LXQt WM as well.

Yes, its modular design is one of the things I like in LXQt. Another one is PCManFM-Qt, my preferred file manager.

biker_rat · 11-16-2023, 11:11 AM

you can use labwc

DryFalls · 11-19-2023, 01:21 PM

Thanks for this lancsuk. Everything built smoothly and upgraded from a running v.1.30 system (built with SbO and Skaendo's build scripts). For those running without kde5, I'd suggest adding polkit-qt and PyQT5 as dependencies; possibly libdbusmenu-qt as well.

The only problem I have is with lxqt-panel and/or lxqt-notificationd in every installation since version 0.17. My xsession-errors log rapindly fills up with

Code:

Error on DBus request(:1.36,/StatusNotifierItem):
 QDBusError(org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownProperty,
 Property org.kde.StatusNotifierItem.Menu was not found
 in object /StatusNotifierItem)
Error on DBus request(:1.36,/StatusNotifierItem):
 QDBusError(org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownProperty,
 Property org.kde.StatusNotifierItem.IconThemePath was
 not found in object /StatusNotifierItem)
Error on DBus request(:1.36,/StatusNotifierItem):
 QDBusError(org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownProperty,
 Property org.kde.StatusNotifierItem.ToolTip was not 
 found in object /StatusNotifierItem)
 ...

for every icon in the system tray and is repeated every time till the log file is unmanagebly huge. I haven't been able to track this down so wnd up disabling the panel logging altogether (redirect output to /dev/null) which is also a pretty ugly fix.

Anyone have ideas on this?

By the way, if plasma5 DE is installed, almost everything kde has to offer functions under LxQt DE with much lower resource overhead (on less-than-bleeding-edge hardware).

thanks
df

lancsuk · 11-19-2023, 01:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DryFalls

Code:

Error on DBus request(:1.36,/StatusNotifierItem):
 QDBusError(org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownProperty,
 Property org.kde.StatusNotifierItem.Menu was not found
 in object /StatusNotifierItem)
Error on DBus request(:1.36,/StatusNotifierItem):
 QDBusError(org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownProperty,
 Property org.kde.StatusNotifierItem.IconThemePath was
 not found in object /StatusNotifierItem)
Error on DBus request(:1.36,/StatusNotifierItem):
 QDBusError(org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownProperty,
 Property org.kde.StatusNotifierItem.ToolTip was not 
 found in object /StatusNotifierItem)
 ...

I think you are right, with libdbusmenu-qt5, polkit-qt and PyQT5 . But polkit-qt, libdbusmenu-qt5, and PyQt5 is part of the l series anyway.
Maybe I am wrong, I guess these error happen, because plasma-workspace isn't installed. I have to check that.

DryFalls · 11-19-2023, 04:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lancsuk

But polkit-qt, libdbusmenu-qt5, and PyQt5 is part of the l series anyway.

Yes of course. I have an experimental "bare-bones" live system I play with but also a full install with all of kde, etc. In the latter case I get the exact same errors and no such errors running plasma desktop. I read somewhere that rhe LxQt devs were going to merge in knotifyconfig for status-notification but I may have misread that.

thanks

Didier Spaier · 11-20-2023, 06:45 AM

Yesterday I made an installation of Slackware64-15.0 without the kde series of packages but with all other package included in a Qemu VM, fully upgraded it, then cloned the repository https://gitlab.com/slackernetukbuild...nuk-stable.git in the same state as at time of writing and ran build.sh. No issue of any kind. Good job lancsuk!

jloco · 11-20-2023, 07:24 PM

I forked snuk's repo and added aarch64 to the scripts here: https://github.com/mac-a-r0ni/lxqt-snuk-current-aarch64, I've also build the entire thing on a full install of slackwareaarch64-current and placed built packages in my "might be a real repo some day" directory on my server here: https://slackware.lngn.net/pub/aarch64/pkg_dump/lxqt/

Again, these packages are for aarch64!

Cheers!