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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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| 7 |
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| 8 | <sect1 id="lxqt-post-install" xreflabel="LXQt-Post-Install">
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="post-install.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <title>LXQt Desktop Final Instructions</title>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <indexterm zone="lxqt-post-install">
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| 14 | <primary sortas="g-lxqt-post-install">LXQt-post-install</primary>
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| 15 | </indexterm>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 18 | <title>Post-Install Instructions</title>
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| 19 |
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| 20 | <para>
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| 21 | Final steps, before starting <application>LXQt</application>.
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| 22 | </para>
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Dependencies to Start LXQt</bridgehead>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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| 27 | <para role="required">
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| 28 | <xref linkend="openbox"/>, or another window manager, such as
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| 29 | <xref role="nodep" linkend="xfwm4"/>, or
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| 30 | kwin from <xref role="nodep" linkend="plasma5-build"/>.
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| 31 | Note that <xref role="nodep" linkend="icewm"/> is not suitable for LXQt.
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| 32 | </para>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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| 35 | <para role="recommended">
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| 36 | <!--<phrase revision="sysv">
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| 37 | <xref linkend="pm-utils"/>,
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| 38 | </phrase>-->
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| 39 | <xref linkend="lightdm"/> or another Display Manager, e.g.
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| 40 | <xref role="nodep" linkend="lxdm"/>,
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| 41 | <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/>,
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| 42 | <!--<xref linkend="shared-mime-info"/>,-->
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| 43 | <!--<xref linkend="xdg-utils"/>,--> and
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| 44 | <xref linkend="xscreensaver"/>
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| 45 | </para>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | </sect2>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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| 50 | <title>Final Configuration</title>
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[532405b] | 51 | <!--
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[1cc6ea03] | 52 | <para>
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| 53 | If <application>LXQt</application> is installed in <filename
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| 54 | class="directory">/usr</filename>, jump directly to <xref
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| 55 | linkend="lxqt-final-updates"/>, otherwise run the commands in the
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| 56 | next section.
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| 57 | </para>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | <sect3>
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| 60 | <title>Configuration needed only if installing into /opt</title>
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| 61 | <para>
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| 62 | If <application>LXQt</application> is installed into <filename
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| 63 | class="directory">/opt</filename>, some files have to be copied to
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| 64 | <filename class="directory">/usr/share</filename>, so that the system
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| 65 | can find them. Run the following commands, as the &root; user:
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| 66 | </para>
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| 67 |
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| 68 | <screen role="root"><userinput>ln -svfn $LXQT_PREFIX/share/lxqt /usr/share/lxqt
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| 69 |
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| 70 | cp -v {$LXQT_PREFIX,/usr}/share/xsessions/lxqt.desktop
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| 71 |
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| 72 | for i in $LXQT_PREFIX/share/applications/*; do
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| 73 | ln -svf $i /usr/share/applications/
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| 74 | done
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| 75 |
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| 76 | for i in $LXQT_PREFIX/share/desktop-directories/*; do
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| 77 | ln -svf $i /usr/share/desktop-directories/
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| 78 | done
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| 79 |
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| 80 | unset i
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| 81 |
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| 82 | ldconfig</userinput></screen>
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| 83 |
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| 84 | </sect3>
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[532405b] | 85 | -->
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[1cc6ea03] | 86 | <sect3 id="lxqt-final-updates" xreflabel="LXQt Final Updates">
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| 87 | <title>LXQt Final Updates</title>
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| 88 |
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| 89 | <para>
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| 90 | The desktop databases have to be created or updated at this point.
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| 91 | Run the following commands as the &root; user:
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| 92 | </para>
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| 93 |
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[5c25cbdc] | 94 | <screen role="root"><userinput>ldconfig &&
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[532405b] | 95 | update-mime-database /usr/share/mime &&
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| 96 | xdg-icon-resource forceupdate &&
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[1cc6ea03] | 97 | update-desktop-database -q</userinput></screen>
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| 98 |
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| 99 | </sect3>
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| 100 |
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| 101 | </sect2>
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| 102 |
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| 103 | <sect2 role="starting">
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| 104 | <title>Starting LXQt</title>
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| 105 |
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| 106 | <para revision="sysv">
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| 107 | You can start <application>LXQt</application> from runlevel 3, using
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| 108 | <xref linkend="xinit"/>, or from runlevel 5, using a Display Manager,
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| 109 | such as <xref linkend="lightdm"/>.
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| 110 | </para>
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| 111 |
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| 112 | <para revision="systemd">
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| 113 | You can start <application>LXQt</application> from a TTY, using
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| 114 | <xref linkend="xinit"/>, or by using a graphical display manager such
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| 115 | as <xref linkend="lightdm"/>.
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| 116 | </para>
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| 117 |
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| 118 | <para>
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| 119 | To start <application>LXQt</application> using <xref linkend="xinit"/>,
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| 120 | run the following commands:
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| 121 | </para>
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| 122 |
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[1c060d7] | 123 | <screen><userinput>cat > ~/.xinitrc << "EOF"
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[0ea82524] | 124 | <literal>exec startlxqt</literal>
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[1cc6ea03] | 125 | EOF
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| 126 |
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| 127 | startx</userinput></screen>
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| 128 |
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| 129 | <para>
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[0ea82524] | 130 | The X session starts on the first unused virtual terminal, normally vt1.
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[1cc6ea03] | 131 | You can switch to another vt<emphasis>n</emphasis> simultaneously
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| 132 | pressing the keys Ctrl-Alt-F<emphasis>n</emphasis>
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[0ea82524] | 133 | (<emphasis>n</emphasis>=2, 3, ...). To switch back to the X session,
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| 134 | normally started at vt1, use Ctrl-Alt-F1. The vt where the command
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[1cc6ea03] | 135 | <command>startx</command> was executed will display many messages,
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| 136 | including X starting messages, applications automatically started with
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[1c060d7] | 137 | the session, and eventually, some warning and error messages, but are
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| 138 | hidden by the graphical interface. You may prefer to redirect those
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| 139 | messages to a log file, which can be used for debug purposes. This can
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| 140 | be done starting X with:
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[1cc6ea03] | 141 | </para>
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| 142 |
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| 143 | <screen><userinput>startx &> ~/.x-session-errors</userinput></screen>
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| 144 |
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| 145 | </sect2>
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| 146 |
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[1c060d7] | 147 | <sect2>
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| 148 | <title>Initial Configuration</title>
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| 149 |
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| 150 | <para>
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| 151 | When LXQt first starts, it will ask you for the window manager to use.
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| 152 | To start, the BLFS editors recomment using <application>openbox</application>.
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| 153 | At this point both the background and the panel will be black. Right clicking
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| 154 | on the backgound will bring up a menu and selecting "Desktop Preferences"
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| 155 | will allow you to change the background color or set a background image.
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| 156 | </para>
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| 157 |
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| 158 | <para>
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| 159 | The panel will be at the bottom of the screen. Right clicking on the
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| 160 | panel will bring up a menu that will allow you to customize the panel
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| 161 | including adding widgets and setting the background color.
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| 162 | </para>
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| 163 |
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| 164 | </sect2>
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[1cc6ea03] | 165 | </sect1>
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