fair enough. I will try to do the manual build/make install to see if that was the issue. The stuff that looked broken seemed to be so due to themes/icons. I imagined that because that user already ran lxde some of the config files/settings maybe were shared. I'll try to make a fresh user as well for testing before rebuilding stuff.
thanks, On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Paulo Lieuthier <paulolieuth...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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