LXQt is running great using Aliens packages http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/lxqt/

Makes a great contender for a lightweight KDE, you can use Kwin with it, but I chose the default openbox. Currently have Firefox (2tabs), KSys, Claws-Mail and Keepassx running with 0-1% CPU and 600MB mem, on a HP Compaq AMD Athlon II, 3Ghz, 8GB RAM.

Thank You Alien!


Ill post a screenshot if anyone is interested.

Those packages are slightly older versions, not that that is necessarily a bad thing. I vaguely recall Alien not being too impressed at some point about how quick the LXQT development had moved on to focus on QT5.

What would you say are the main advantages of LXQT compared to its alternatives? I get the impression it is 'stuck in the middle' a bit, not enough flashiness with the kitchen sink included compared to your KDEs and Gnomes for those who like that sort of thing, and not quite lightweight enough for those who like to really minimise RAM/CPU usage. Maybe I am wrong about that, xfce4 is a bit like that too and it's popular enough.

I would like to know more about it because LXQT is definitely the DE I would have a good look at if I wanted to experiment with assembling a QT-only desktop, but I do not come across too many who are using it. I'm using jwm at the moment myself, because I don't mind the 'Classic Desktop' (as the LXQT website calls it), and I like that it is just one package to install and keep updated, with few dependencies and a single-file config.

I was mainly trying it out to see if I wanted to install it on a friends laptop as a lightweight KDE. Personally, I usually switch between icewm, fluxbox and KDE depending on my mood, usually a WM person. JWM is very nice, used it on puppy and antix in the past, never tried it on Slack.

Did you use a jwm config from somewhere or create one?

Did you have a look at Lumina Desktop?
Also still immature and incomplete like LxQT, but let's see, how the two projects get along...

gargamel

I had heard of Lumina, but at the time I wasn't enthusiastic about mandatory fluxbox instead of the choice of window manager LX** gives. Could be to do with (preferred) licenses, Lumina coming from the BSD camp and fluxbox being MIT-licensed. But also one to keep an eye on indeed, thanks for reminding me of it.

For JWM colours&look, as a jumping-off point I indeed took a configuration posted on the Archlinux forums. The menu entries I first generated with menumaker, I think with its fluxbox setting, and then used some find&replace to convert it all to jwmrc syntax. I use the Droid Sans font (installed via microlinux slackbuild).

Tweaking the menus (especially icons) is a bit of a hassle in JWM, but I like how I can customise it for other people's machines (making it as simple or complex as desired), also keeping in mind it's easy to remotely support if needed. It's also harder for a user than in let's say KDE to accidentally make a clutter of the interface elements by experimental clicking&dragging. I think that's true for icewm as well, not sure about LXQT.
I might clean up and update one of my JWM configs a bit to be able to share a usable example, I see few recent samples posted on the web.

Lumina looks very interesting, and I like the idea of it being designed first for BSD then ported elsewhere. Strange thing though, I could only manage it in BSD environment, when built for Slackware it would spike CPU to 100%, and was buggy...random freezes for no reason. I couldn't figure out why it would spike CPU, so I always removed the package and made a mental not to try a later/newer version.

Keeping an eye on it though as it does look promising. Works well with PCBSD.

Definitely post here if you don't mind, I am always willing to try out other peoples configs. Trying to play with moving the antix jwm and icewm configs to Slack box, there is an inconsistency somewhere perhaps a script needing dpkg for some reason, but they have a very nice jwm and icewm setup. Salix has a nice fluxbox setup, provides a nice menu with xdgmenumaker.

Here's his slackware-current LXQT build:
https://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/pe...t/x86_64/lxqt/

I've been using LXDE (both 32 and 64 bit) for several years now and am quite pleased with it. How does LXQT differ, and what would be the advantages/disadvantages to switching?

You can use it as a lightweight KDE. If you want to make it a little more eye candy you can use kwin instead of openbox. All of the KDE apps run very well inside lxqt.