LXQt

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

Note: LXQt on Alpine currently requires having the /edge/testing repo enabled

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

Optional packages

Documentation

• lxqt-config-doc
• lxqt-openssh-askpass-doc
• lxqt-panel-doc
• lxqt-policykit-doc
• lxqt-runner-doc
• lxqt-session-doc
• lxqt-sudo-doc

Development files

• lxqt-globalkeys-dev
• lxqt-panel-dev

Misc

• lxqt-build-tools

See Also

• Post Install
• Desktop environments and Window managers