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Title: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: devil on 2014/05/10, 15:24:54: get it while it's hot:

http://news.siduction.org/2014/05/release-notes-for-siduction-lxqt-dev-release/

have fun
devil
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: dibl on 2014/05/10, 20:31:41: Will it be possible to "cross-grade" an existing LXDE installation?
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: piper on 2014/05/10, 23:47:56: Quote from: dibl
Will it be possible to "cross-grade" an existing LXDE installation?
If it were me, I would start from scratch, but, that is only me. I think it would be wise.
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: dibl on 2014/05/11, 01:32:28: Maybe I will. I have a netbook Desperado LXDE that is working perfectly. I kinda hate to mess with it, but I know LXDE is history, so I guess I will have to make a plan for it. :)
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: bluelupo on 2014/05/11, 10:18:36: You have really done a good job. The installation of LxQt works without any problem, the first test of the LxQt desktop into a virtual machine (KVM) was successful. All in all a very positive impression of the newly created desktop interface.
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: devil on 2014/05/11, 10:34:40: To have a first look, you might look at the pictures in the review I have linked to by switching to reviews on top of the page. Review itself is in DE :(

greetz
devil
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: dibl on 2014/05/11, 14:55:53: This may or not qualify as a bug, depending on how bad you want to support aging hardware, but I'll share it for your information. On this motherboard from 2006 timeframe:

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System: Host: suzdesk Kernel: 3.14-3.towo-siduction-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 4.8.2) Desktop: KDE 4.12.4 (Qt 4.8.6) Distro: siduction 12.2.0 Riders on the Storm - kde - (201212092131) Machine: Mobo: Intel model: D975XBX2 v: AAD53350-509 Bios: Intel v: BX97520J.86A.2813.2008.0114.2256 date: 01/14/2008 CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 CPU X6800 (-MCP-) cache: 4096 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 13873 Clock Speeds: 1: 2926 MHz 2: 2926 MHz Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GT200 [GeForce GTX 260] bus-ID: 01:00.0 Display Server: X.Org 1.15.1 driver: nvidia Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz GLX Renderer: GeForce GTX 260/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 331.67 Direct Rendering: Yes Network: Card: Intel 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: e1000e v: 2.3.2-k port: 1000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:1c:c0:1f:54:35 Drives: HDD Total Size: 300.1GB (67.1% used) ID-1: model: WDC_WD3000HLFS Info: Processes: 188 Uptime: 3 min Memory: 847.3/3957.6MB Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.8.2 Client: Shell (bash 4.3.111) inxi: 2.1.25

The boot begins with great hardware detection, all the way past the keyboard, and next

2.39xxxxxx Switched to clocksource tsc

about 8 blank lines

Failed to detect live media
modprobe: module ehci-orion was not found in modules.dep
31.93xxxxx ohci-hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver

BusyBox v1.22.1 ............................

It booted right up on a Dell E6500 and looks great. I need to wait for a 32-bit release to set it up on my Toshiba netbook.

Thanks guys -- nice job!
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: krisbee on 2014/05/11, 18:14:59: Installed in VirtualBox. Prelim testing shows no obvious problems. I've not needed to install anything from 2013.2 release, so was a bit suprised to see the latest installer requires a minimum of swap, /root and /home. I wonder if there's any way to still install in swap and / only?

Back to LXQT. It's a very promising distro, hopefully we will see a little more unification in the settings in the future.

My LXQT desktop:

(http://s16.postimg.org/99dy5svxt/LXQTscreen.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/99dy5svxt/)

Thanks to the devs.
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: melmarker on 2014/05/11, 20:02:00: the installer don't require minimum values - type in 0B
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: GoinEasy9 on 2014/05/12, 04:28:06: Looking at the wallpaper, I was thinking, shouldn't it be titled "Drink it Black"?
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: melmarker on 2014/05/12, 09:41:27: look at the moleculare structucture - coffeine pure, without milk and sugar - just black :D
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: joji on 2014/05/14, 17:56:40: Quote from: devil on 2014/05/10, 15:24:54
get it while it's hot:

http://news.siduction.org/2014/05/release-notes-for-siduction-lxqt-dev-release/ (http://news.siduction.org/2014/05/release-notes-for-siduction-lxqt-dev-release/)

have fun
devil
Just to say : congratulations. You are the first, I guess...

Have been working / playing with this lxqt-dev-release since it came out. It was fun! Did a poor man's install on a stick. No serious problems till now. Am aware this is a 'Development Release' but looks to me rather as a release candidate.

Thank you.
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: dibl on 2014/05/18, 16:09:03: This morning I was playing with LXQt on a VM:

-- added a startup script to ~/.config/autostart
-- added a launcher to plank
-- deleted a launcher from plank
-- installed some software including my favorite browser
-- fiddled around with multimedia items, tested videos and sound
-- used pcmanfm to browse my network and ssh into other machines

It all seems to work well.

Question: What developmental issues should a user be aware of, prior to installing on a laptop that needs to be as stable as other DEs?
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: melmarker on 2014/05/18, 18:27:59: nobody really know - but https://github.com/lxde/lxde-qt/issues can give some hints. 8)

from my point of view LXQt is usable - but it can be that there are some bugs, that no one have seen before, because its new.
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: dibl on 2014/05/18, 20:35:36: Thank you. Another question (not answered by that git forum or Google): can I map an Alt-F2 keypress to launch the runner? I fumbled around for awhile trying to add it in the Global Actions Manager. The closest I got was this (http://pkgs.org/openmandriva-cooker/openmandriva-main-release-i586/lxqt-runner-0.7.0-1-omv2014.1.i586.rpm.html), but there is no /usr/share/lxqt/lxqt-runner/ directory on this system, so that was a dead end.

Thanks again.
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: mt12345 on 2014/07/29, 03:33:19: Quote
LXQt arrived in siduction (http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=4563.msg37756#msg37756)

will it replace razor-qt ?
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: der_bud on 2014/07/29, 08:11:47: In short: yes it will. Longer story: as both projects, LXDE and Razor-qt, seemed to lack manpower for further development, and some of LXDE's Gtk+Applications where ported to Qt, they decided to bundle their energies and announced mid 2013 a merged project to come [1],[2]. A first alpha version of at that time still called LXDE-Qt was published in April 2014 [3], the releaseversion 0.7 of LXQt in May [4] .

As Razor and LXDE are still active, siduction might probably release flavours of both one last time. In the long term, it seems as LXDE in its Gtk+2 version will stay for a while and Razor-qt will be given up for the sake of LXQt. And any of this might change if the developers decide :).

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/razor-qt/PNvkoidV2Ik
[2] http://blog.lxde.org/?p=1046
[3] http://blog.lxde.org/?p=1100
[4] http://blog.lxde.org/?p=1107
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: mt12345 on 2014/07/30, 01:47:06: Quote
In short: yes it will.

:(

Thanks for the links, starting reading.
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: mt12345 on 2014/08/03, 02:46:26: if juffed, qterminal, razor-panel replace leafpad, lxterminal, lxpanel - I'm in. ;)
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: bevo on 2014/08/04, 15:18:04: will there be an i386 version also available soon?

bevo
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: melmarker on 2014/08/04, 16:26:59: die pakete sind doch alle da
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: bevo on 2014/08/04, 18:19:12: sooo? ich sehe nur die amd64...iso

bevo
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: mt12345 on 2014/08/04, 18:32:44: http://packages.siduction.org/lxqt/dists/unstable/ (http://packages.siduction.org/lxqt/dists/unstable/)

http://packages.siduction.org/lxqt/ (http://packages.siduction.org/lxqt/)

use razor iso and upgrade
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: melmarker on 2014/08/04, 21:45:34: one could use the packages from extra as they are built against siduction
the packages in lxqt are built against pure sid
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: michaa7 on 2014/08/25, 20:13:49: After adding the lxqt repos http://packages.siduction.org/lxqt/ to the list, is there a meta-package which I may use to install lxqt here on 32bit as an additional DE?
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: melmarker on 2014/08/25, 20:15:34: no. not now.

btw - the packages are in extra too - but build against siduction. lxqt is build against pure sid. This can make eventually a difference
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: michaa7 on 2014/08/25, 21:16:21: I am asking out of curiosity, not really important: One may install lxqt using an ISO, but it is not possible from the repo? Did I misunderstand something?
Title: Re: LXQt arrived in siduction
Post by: melmarker on 2014/08/25, 21:34:54: one can install from repository - why one need a (eventually not complete or most of the time broken) meta package to do so?