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Is there a way to make Lubuntu 18.10 look like Lubuntu 18.04?
Since Lubuntu changes its desktop from LXDE to LXQt there have been changes in icons of the panel and PCmanFM, the file manager. I am not an experienced user but I am wondering why a change in ...
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Lubuntu 19.10 & 20.04: How to tile windows? The window tiling section is missing in lxqt-rc.xml
Edit dated 20220907: As of LXQt 0.17.0 (April 2021), "Openbox configuration is removed for the sake of WM agnosticism," and ~/.config/openbox/lxqt-rc.xml is no longer recognized, while ~/....
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Is the only way to add a quicklaunch in LXQt by mouse?
That's correct; as of LXQt 0.13 there is no way to modify this within the LXQt Panel settings; it's mouse only.
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How to increase the size of the cursor in Lubuntu 19.04?
Not from the desktop as themes do not support multiple sizes yet. There is a workaround it seems:
From the comment by sroracle to the bug report:
As a workaround, setting the XCURSOR_SIZE ...
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Is the only way to add a quicklaunch in LXQt by mouse?
Sorry, it should read like this:
[quicklaunch]
alignment=Left
apps\1\desktop=/usr/share/applications/pcmanfm-qt.desktop
apps\2\desktop=/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
apps\3\desktop=/usr/...
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How to skip login screen on Lubuntu (17.04) - Lxqt
Turns out I was having trouble because LXQt is not using lightdm to login, it is using SDDM, so I created a configuration file at /etc/sddm.conf:
nano /etc/sddm.conf
and added the following text to ...
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Lubuntu 18.10 LXQt power button actions
Right...
Well thanks to all support I found the solution in the end for lubuntu LXQt 18.10
Finally I got rid of my laptop shutting down instead of suspending after pushing the power button...
I ...
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What is going to be the future for Lubuntu (LXQt or LXDE)?
The first Lubuntu release with the LXQt desktop environment by default will be Lubuntu 18.10, due for release on October 18, 2018. The first daily build is now available for testing on both 64-bit and ...
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Why is my Lubuntu desktop environment changed to LXQt after upgrading from 18.04 to 18.10?
Lubuntu's move to LXQt has been well-publicised. See the lead developer's post here from July 2018.
For the forseeable future, here are our core goals:
Lubuntu will leverage modern, Qt-based ...
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Is there any "official" guidance to upgrading from Lubuntu 18.04 LTS (LXDE) to Lubuntu 18.10 (LXQt)
From the release notes for Lubuntu 18.10:
The most major and notable problem is that upgrading Lubuntu from 18.04 to 18.10 causes a fair amount of issues. Therefore, we are not officially ...
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Lubuntu 18.10 Screen black bar at top
Happened to me too. I fixed it by deleting it: Right click on the top -> Delete panel.
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How to change display scaling settings in Lubuntu?
In Lubuntu 21.10, I had to go through the following steps:
Open LXQt Configuration Center -> Session Settings -> Environment Variables (Advanced) or run lxqt-config-session
Add QT_SCALE_FACTOR ...
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Lubuntu 19.04: How to add an app shortcut to taskbar?
Right click on panel, go to Configure Panel and ensure you have "Quick Launch" widget enabled, then drag/drop menu items to the Quick Launch panel widget. Worry about the order of the ...
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Is there a way to make Lubuntu 18.10 look like Lubuntu 18.04?
You can log into the new LXQt desktop and install LXDE.
In a terminal, type
sudo apt install lxde
It will install lxde and many other packages.
After it finishes, log out. Choose LXDE from the ...
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Lubuntu brightness/backlight issue
I had the same issue in Lubuntu 20.04.
Solution:
In terminal run: lxqt-config-globalkeyshortcuts and change:
lxqt-config-brightness -d => lxqt-backlight_backend --dec
lxqt-config-brightness -i =&...
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Lubuntu 18.10 black theme (black background, and white/bright text in every apps including file manager)
Caution: at this stage of Lubuntu's move to LXQt, you can't completely get what you want with the available defaults! But the following suggestions may offer some relief!
Lubuntu 18.10 has gtk3 ...
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LXQt panel Volume Control doesn't switch to actual output device
A solution is to use a different tool and remove completely that widget.
sudo apt install kmix
By default the actions on the tray icon don't affect the bluetooth speaker, until that speaker is ...
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How do I rebind the keyboard shortcut to open the menu in Lubuntu 20.04?
In Lubuntu 20.04, pressing the Super_L key, aka the left Meta or Windows key, launches the LXQt menu.
To change that, use Menu > Preferences > LXQt Settings > Shortcut Keys.
In the GUI that opens,
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Menu bar for each display
Yes...
You can have as many panels as you want, each can have it's own menu, quick launch bar (for app fast launchers) & more. It doesn't matter how many displays/monitor you have and you can have ...
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How to change the desktop environment from lxqt to lxde
There shouldn't be any lxqt session in the login screen unless you've done something which you haven't reported.
The default choices are:
Lubuntu
Lubuntu Qt session
Openbox
The contents of /usr/...
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Is there a way to make Lubuntu 18.10 look like Lubuntu 18.04?
I am going to leave this here even if it is told that it will not be supported coming up with GTK 4. These steps do also install into Xubuntu nicely so you can apply the same look and feel.
EDIT: ...
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Lubuntu brightness/backlight issue
The simplest way I have discovered that doesn't require sudo is to use
pkexec lxqt-backlight_backend --inc to increase the backlight brightness and pkexec lxqt-backlight_backend --dec to decrease it.
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How to add a "lock screen and suspend" command to LXQt?
Shortcut
Start lxqt-config-globalkeyshortcuts (or click "panel menu → Preferences → LXQt Settings → Shortcut keys").
Create a shortcut that executes the following command:
sh -c "lxqt-leave --...
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How to increase the size of the cursor in Lubuntu 19.04?
Through the usual GUI, then no—probably not yet because the LXQT team has not added this feature. There is already someone reported this issue on their GitHub page https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/issues/...
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How to (easily) change Lubuntu applications menu icon
As I supposed, this option is already included in Lubuntu for users: fortunately, no files of the system have to be modified and no Terminal command lines are necessary to do this editing.
I found ...
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Roll back to stable version Lubuntu LXQt
In case your terminal does not work, open a virtual terminal with ctrl + alt + F3, and login.
First install ppa-purge, and purge this ppa.
sudo apt install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:lubuntu-ci/...
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What can be the issue when after installing Lubuntu 18.10 shortcuts for window tiling and other ones don't work?
To fix this, I went to Menu > Session settings and then disabled Global Keyboard Shortcuts under Basic settings tab.
All the keybindings from lxqt-rc.xml started working after that, including ...
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Is there a workaround for the removal of "Copy Path" in pcmanfm-qt?
OP here (I botched registration but I'm the same guy. ;) )
Thanks for the ideas. I've tried all of them, xc for Thunar, which I have yet to download (but I have tried before and it's a very nice ...
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