Comments on: How to Install Latest LXQt Desktop in Ubuntu and Fedora

By: Leonard Carghill

Leonard Carghill — Sun, 30 May 2021 02:43:18 +0000

People seem to forget that if they do not get a graphical login screen because the display manager failed to start, or if after entering credentials (username, password) the desktop environment/window manager fails to start and they just get thrown back to the display manager login screen, then they can use F2 to go to a virtual console on tty2, log in there and then su to root to fix the problem.

By: Patricia J Hawkins

Patricia J Hawkins — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 13:24:09 +0000

A thought for those who found themselves without a working system — never uninstall an old thing that you depend on until you have the new one up and running and thoroughly tested.

It’s like ripping out your kitchen for renovation without thinking about where you’ll keep food and get your meals from. And on computers, you usually don’t even need to create the space. (If you don’t have space, have something running on a bootable usb or CD.)

“How did you know that? SCAR TISSUE.”

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 06:09:56 +0000

In reply to Phil.

@Phil,

You need to upgrade your Ubuntu release to the latest version in order to install the most recent version of the LXQT desktop on ubuntu.

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 14:17:54 +0000

Me again: Maybe it is of comfort to some readers of this thread that there is also an option to use the UNITY desktop environment in both Ubuntu LTS’s 18 and 20. With Ubuntu 18 it is offered as an alternative at system boot-up Login.

So if you run a slow machine and used to be okay with Ubuntu 16’s UNITY desktop performance (like I was) you can optionally login into that.

If your install did not come with it, you can download and install it.

So now my Desktop behaves like it’s old Ubuntu 16 self again. A bit laggy here and there but on the whole acceptable … and most important: CONSIDERABLY faster and smoother than the new GNOME shell.

And, if I may add, UNITY’s more ‘classic’ approach makes a lot more sense to me than the new GNOME usages, like being able to add a ‘show desktop’ switch on the dock, which has indeed been discontinued on the GNOME desktop, not to mention the classic UNITY dash which for some reason comes up much faster than the GNOME dash on my machine.

But still: I have no way to get rid of that LXQT/Open Desktop ‘shadow’ installation. So any help on how to REALLY reinstall it and make it be gone would be much appreciated.

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 01:27:11 +0000

Wow! Now I am angry!

I deinstalled via

$ sudo apt purge lxqt openbox
$ sudo apt autoremove

and enabled auto-password or ubuntu 18 bootup (so I don’t have to type it in everytime I boot up). And now lxqt was STILL WORKING and starting by default. Now I COULD NOT GET IN THERE! – Because I could not choose open desktop (of the cause, because I had it deinstalled). I was caught in noman’s land.

By shear ‘fiddling around with keys’ I somehow got in the lxqt environment (GLITCHES, GLITCHES, GLITCHES, like uncontrollable ‘bursts’ of lines I had copied with ctrl+c, while I was tying to type something into the terminal. Also configuration-windows had no closing buttons and would not react to ctrl-q neither). A nightmare! It felt like Windows 95 from hell!

So now I must step up from not recommending to the warning! You can seriously lock yourself out by just following the advice above. DO NOT DO IT, unless you have DEEP knowledge of that bag of fleas called Linux OS!

My only option now is to disable Ubuntu’s auto-login so that ‘ghost’ of the lxqt Openbox does not lock me out/in again. Which is a bother as I don’t like having to login by password for every Ubuntu session.

If the author would at least be so kind as to help me get rid of that ‘ghost’ installation? … After deinstallation it does not show up in the /bin folder too. But somehow it is still in full working condition!