{"id":2603,"date":"2013-12-20T09:33:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T09:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2013-12-20T12:16:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T12:16:54","slug":"install-lxqt-via-ppa-in-ubuntu-14-04-13-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/install-lxqt-via-ppa-in-ubuntu-14-04-13-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install LXQt \/ LXDE-QT via PPA in Ubuntu 14.04, 13.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/LXDE_propose-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/LXDE_propose-logo.jpg\" alt=\"LXDE_Razor-Qt \" width=\"260\" height=\"222\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2604\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>LXQt<\/b> or <b>LXDE-Qt<\/b> is a NEW lightweight desktop environment, the mergence of <b>LXDE<\/b> and <b>Razor-Qt<\/b>.  It uses Openbox window manager, PCManFM-Qt (qt port of PCManFM) file manager, razor-panel desktop panel, as well as other qt items as its core components. (See more at <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.lxde.org\/en\/LXDE-Qt\" title=\"LXDE-Qt\" target=\"_blank\">wiki page<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>This project is still in development and this simple tutorial is going to show you how to install the development version of LXQt in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10 via PPA.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2605\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Lxde-qt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2605\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Lxde-qt-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"LXDE-qt DE preview\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Lxde-qt-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Lxde-qt.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LXDE-qt DE preview<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install software-properties-common\r\n\r\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:lubuntu-dev\/lubuntu-daily \r\n\r\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:gilir\/q-project\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get upgrade\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install lxqt-metapackage<\/pre>\n<p>Once installed, log out and select &#8220;LXDE-Qt Desktop&#8221; to log in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/LXDE-qt_login.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/LXDE-qt_login.jpg\" alt=\"LXDE-Qt desktop in Unity Login Screen\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/LXDE-qt_login.jpg 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/LXDE-qt_login-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note that after installed LXDE-Qt, your LightDM login screen will be changed. To revert back to original:<\/p>\n<p>1. Run command to edit the config file:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo gedit \/etc\/lightdm\/lightdm.conf<\/pre>\n<p>2. Change value of greeter-session to <b>unity-greeter<\/b><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LXQt or LXDE-Qt is a NEW lightweight desktop environment, the mergence of LXDE and Razor-Qt. It uses Openbox window manager, PCManFM-Qt (qt port of PCManFM) file manager, razor-panel desktop panel, as well as other qt items as its core components. (See more at wiki page) This project is still in development and this simple tutorial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[906,907],"class_list":["post-2603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-lxde","tag-razor-qt"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}