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#1 2014-05-27 16:01:46
- Railarian
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Using kwin 5 as lxqt window manager
Hello,
Is it possibile to point lxqt to a window manager not displayed in it's config gui? It detected Openbox and kwin 4.13 when they were installed, but I'd like to try and use kwin 4.96 from kde-unstable repo since it has less dependencies and is possibly faster, but when I browse for "/opt/bin/kf5/kwin" from lxqt session settings it boots to a blank screen with not even mouse poiter displayed.
Thanks in advance for all help.
Cheers.
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#2 2014-05-27 16:07:53
- libernux
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Re: Using kwin 5 as lxqt window manager
Did you make sure that "/opt/bin/kf5" is in your $PATH variable.
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#3 2014-05-27 16:50:37
- Railarian
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Re: Using kwin 5 as lxqt window manager
Yes, it didn't change anything.
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#4 2014-05-27 17:06:01
- arojas
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Re: Using kwin 5 as lxqt window manager
If you don't have kdebase-workspace installed, the easiest solution would be to recompile with -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr. Otherwise you need to set QT_PLUGIN_PATH, QML2_IMPORT_PATH and possibly also XDG_DATA_DIRS. See the 10-kf5 script in plasma-workspace AUR package.
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#5 2014-05-27 17:24:01
- Railarian
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Re: Using kwin 5 as lxqt window manager
Hmm... I think I'll pass then. Current kwin works good enough and I don't feel it's worth the trouble to try and change that (although I reeally don't like unnecessary clutter).
Only that now I can't set wallpaper... It's selected in lxqt config, but my screen is just plain grey (like my colour theme) no matter how many times I change it. I already removed that PATH variable, changed back to current kwin as window manager and rebooted.
Will report if I sort it out somehow.
Thanks for help anyway.
Cheers.
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#6 2014-06-23 06:02:13
- mladoux
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Re: Using kwin 5 as lxqt window manager
Only that now I can't set wallpaper... It's selected in lxqt config, but my screen is just plain grey (like my colour theme) no matter how many times I change it. I already removed
Cheers.
I had the wallpaper issue as well. I know this is a bit late since you mentioned the issue, but I found a solution, and maybe it'll help the next person. I found that I could set the wallpaper if I installed pcmanfm-qt-git ( I don't know if the non-git version works for this or not, I didn't try it ) from the AUR.
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#7 2014-06-23 18:51:30
- mid-kid
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Re: Using kwin 5 as lxqt window manager
Only that now I can't set wallpaper... It's selected in lxqt config, but my screen is just plain grey (like my colour theme) no matter how many times I change it. I already removed that PATH variable, changed back to current kwin as window manager and rebooted.
I tested PNG and JPG wallpapers, PNG don't work, JPG do.
pcmanfm-qt-git 0.7.0.16.g38bfb73-1If it ain't broke, you haven't tweaked it enough.
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