Sounds like something wasn't properly installed, as nothing should be looking broken or unusable. See the screenshots in lxqt.org.
On Wed, Sep 7, 2016, 13:41 Spike <sp...@drba.org> wrote: > I managed to start LXQT and I'm super excited about what I've seen even > tho it looked pretty broken/unusable, but I caught a few changes from lxde > in terms of menu and managing removable devices that have been a big > problem for the older/windows user I'm trying to help. > > I will try to rebuild later and save the log file (I don't see a log file > being generated so guess I'll have to save stdout). > > thank for all the help and the great work, it's very much appreciated. > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 7:14 AM, Paulo Lieuthier <paulolieuth...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> Yeah, LXQT_PREFIX does that, sorry. lxqt-common files are supposed to be >> installed just like with any other LXQt component. Can you send us the >> whole output of the build script? Anyway, did you get to start LXQt through >> the display manager? >> >> Paulo >> >> >> On 09/07/2016 10:41 AM, Spike wrote: >> >> thanks Paulo, still not quite getting it. First off, I'm on lubuntu >> 16.04, maybe that makes a diff. Second, I've used the ./build_all.sh >> script, which seems to run make install (I have binaries in /usr/bin, not >> /usr/local/ , the command in the wiki says LXQT_PREFIX=/usr , maybe that >> made a diff). I cannot find however any xsession installed anywhere. >> >> Having cd'ed into lxqt-common/build and ran sudo make install that did >> copy over a bunch of things including the xsession file. >> >> Does this mean that the build_all.sh script somehow installed half stuff >> or something? I clearly have lxqt binaries in /usr/bin and those didn't get >> there by magic, but then I'm wondering why the stuff from lxqt-common did >> not. >> >> any thoughts? >> >> thanks, >> >> Spike >> >> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Paulo Lieuthier <paulolieuth...@gmail.com >> > wrote: >> >>> Hi Spike, >>> >>> As far as I know, to test LXQt one only has to `make install` >>> lxqt-common and restart his display manager. lxqt-panel has the X11 session >>> file and the session startup script. As by default make installs in >>> /usr/local, you may need to `export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH`. >>> >>> Another thing I wasn't aware and just tested it to be sure is that the >>> session file may be installed to /usr/local/xsessions, and you will need to >>> move it to (or create a symlink from) /usr/share/xsessions to be able to >>> choose it. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Paulo Lieuthier >>> >>> On 09/06/2016 09:20 PM, Spike wrote: >>> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I'm trying to test the upcoming lxqt by building from sources and >>> running into a number of troubles. >>> >>> For reference, I'm following this guide: >>> >>> https://github.com/lxde/lxqt/wiki/Building-From-Source >>> >>> First off, build would fail with a number of errors which I tracked down >>> to missing dependencies. I'm on Lubuntu 16.04 and I had installed all >>> packages specified here: >>> >>> https://github.com/lxde/lxqt/wiki/Building-From-Source#ubuntu >>> >>> however I had to install these in addition for the build process to work: >>> >>> - libxss-dev >>> - libudev-dev >>> - libmuparser-dev >>> - libfm-dev >>> - libfm-qt-dev >>> >>> once the build finished I was left wondering, how do I test this? >>> There's no "WM chooser/option" in lightdm that I can see, maybe because the >>> build process did not install the needed config files. As I was trying to >>> figure out that I noticed that lxqt-lightdm-greeter is deprecated. Does >>> that mean that lxqt will be using the current lightdm? >>> >>> In any case, can anyone give me pointers on what to do next to get the >>> whole lxqt setup like under lxde (ie session, panel, pcmanfm, etc). >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> Spike >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Lxde-list mailing >>> listLxde-list@lists.sourceforge.nethttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list >>> >>> >
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