Revision as of 21:39, 9 April 2023

LXQt is a lightweight QT based desktop environment, LXQt was originally a port of LXDE to QT (called LXDE-Qt), it was created due to LXDE maintainer Hong Jen Yee being dissatisfied with GTK 3, on 21 July 2013 the LXDE(-Qt) and Razor-qt projects merged creating LXQt.

Prerequisites

Install AlpineLinux
Create a user account (optional but recommended)
Enable the Community repository
Install Xorg

Installation

# apk add lxqt-desktop lxqt-core lxqt-panel lxqt-admin lxqt-config lxqt-notificationd lxqt-powermanagement lxqt-themes openbox

Note: By default LXQt usually uses Openbox as its window manager, but LXQt supports many different window managers, See: ConfigWindowManagers - LXQt Github wiki

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-'''LXQt''' is a lightweight QT based desktop environment, LXQt was originally a port of LXDE to QT (called LXDE-Qt), it was created due to LXDE maintainer Hong Jen Yee being dissatisfied with GTK 3, on 21 July 2013 the LXDE(-Qt) and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor-qt Razor-qt] projects merged creating LXQt.
+'''[https://lxqt-project.org/ LXQt]''' is a lightweight QT based desktop environment, LXQt was originally a port of LXDE to QT (called LXDE-Qt), it was created due to LXDE maintainer Hong Jen Yee being dissatisfied with GTK 3, on 21 July 2013 the LXDE(-Qt) and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor-qt Razor-qt] projects merged creating LXQt.
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 * [[Repositories#Enabling_the_community_repository|Enable the Community repository]]
 * [[Alpine_setup_scripts#setup-xorg-base|Install Xorg]]
-{{Note|LXQt on Alpine currently requires having the '''/edge/testing''' repo enabled}}
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Prerequisites

Installation

Optional packages

Documentation

Development files

Misc

See Also