LXQT on Porteus

[freestyler]

Here's a first look of LXQT running on porteus.


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So far I haven't got it working as a standalone module and am using it with kde and kwin as the window manager. I haven't tested it with openbox yet


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Most things seem to be working and it's quite fast and responsive especially running kde apps.


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I'm planning on putting together 2 flavors, one using kwin and some kde deps and one using openbox and as little resources as possible.

[donald]

sounds good
especially the stripped down to the bone openbox version.
32 and / or 64 bit ?

[dimx]

Good job, freestyler!
LXQT was next on my list, after I finish the LXDE-UI pack! Looking forward to your release of LXQT (standalone/with openbox if possible).

[freestyler]

@donald: Its 64bit at the moment, I will compile 32 bit today

@dimx: I'll upload the modules today so you can have a play

[dimx]

awesome!

[freestyler]

Ive uploaded the 64bit modules, I haven't finished building 32bit as I don't have network access on my 32bit installation and its made it a bit of a pain chasing deps.

http://freestyler.porteus-apps.org/projects/lxqt/

build instructions can be found here:
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Build_LXDE-Qt_From_Source

[dimx]

Good job, Freestyler!!!
Will test whenever I find some spare time - in a few days (currenty busy moving to a different location, lots of packaging *literally* etc).

[freestyler]

Sweet. Hopefully I got a working standalone module by then. Good luck with the move dimx

[tmoulder99]

Hi!

This is really exciting. I tried the Razor-QT desktop, but didn't much care for it. I like LXDE, but it's not very nice to look at (imo) so I'm hopeful about LXQT. The images I've seen look like a great blend of flash and function.

I hope this is progressing well, I'd love to see this come to Porteus.

Thanks!

TM

[francois]

@freestyler:

How are you doing? And how about that lxqt version of porteus?

[francois]

I have tried lxqt under archlinux thru evolution os (a friendly arch linux forum) and mageia cauldron (mandriva clone using rpm). The strategy proposed by evolution does not work at all. By contrast mageia testing of lxqt is going pretty well, see:
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic. ... 4&start=25
http://lxqt.org/

If we get the lxqt de on porteus, we could be amongst the first one to implement it slaxware!

Lxqt just flies on my msi 340x. It has given it a second life.

[Payoon]

Hi Francois,
Siduction ( a distro based on debian SID) is also offering LXQT for i486 as well as amd64 arch. I have tried it and found it amazingly fast and snappy. When Porteus comes with LXQT I will let my XFCE go (although I liked it very much).

Payoon

[mnogo999]

Yes! We need Porteus LXQT very much
and wait this ASAP!
Especially we needed low resource consumption distro.
Thankyou!

[francois]

Oh joy!

I just read that fanthom is working on lxqt:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=3960

But maybe some rabat-joie will just say that it is just another desktop!