I just installed current on an older machine and will try to build.
My intent is to change the WM in the meta package to kwin for 2 reasons:
1) Upstream is Qt centric and if they don't fork their own Qt Window Manager,
they should continue to accomodate kwin.
2) Theme options (kvantum) would be consistent.
The older Qt4 based kwin was said to pull in alot of dependencies, the newer
Qt5 kwin not so much. If OpenBSD's build of kwin works reasonably well, I
will incorporate Landry's guidance into the meta package with kwin, xfwm4 and
openbox.
We have a snowstorm coming in and I'll be home bound for a day or two.
If this goes smoothly, hopefull I can post a patch by midweek.
On Mon, 8
Jan 2024, Rafael Sadowski wrote:
On Sat Jan 06, 2024 at 11:46:42AM -0800, J. Scott Heppler wrote:
Most of the CAD software is Qt Based and I've been running an OpenBSD Dual
Boot system with ArchLinux and LXQt. Essentially, I tried to build the
lightest, CAD compatible environment possible. With all of Rafael Sadows'
work, I suspect updating LXQt should be low hanging fruit.
My own build uses kwin instead of openbox and the only issue I had was
turning off the animation eye candy without kwindowsystems installed. It
was actually a ~/config file that I preserved before deleting kwindowsystem.
The older meta-package brought in openbox and gtk dependencies that would be
unused code when using kwin. Kwin should also be more wayland friendly
going forward.
I think it's worth opening a discussion to set the meta-package structure
and get developers behind the project. I'm not interested in spending days
generating patches only to have them ignored for months and go stale.
If it can come together, I'll contribute some of the updates.
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J. Scott Heppler
If you want to update and test LXQt 1.4.0 you can find an update diff
here:
https://github.com/sizeofvoid/wip-ports/commit/79f5e47c05c4a8341e7873dd850e2077ca5e7293
In a Sunday evening mood I update LXQt to 1.4.0 just for fun. It's quite
straightforward but I don't plan to continue here unless someone starts
taking a look.
https://twitter.com/sizeofvoid/status/1744090390892867838/photo/1
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J. Scott Heppler
Penguin Innovations
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