Installing lxqt

[seagullmania]

I was wondering how i would go about installing and usning lxqt?
i love how it looks, and how light weight it is

[icecream95]

As long as you have Xenial or later, this isn't too hard:

If you don't already have a chroot, create one with at least the xiwi or xorg targets.

Enter your chroot with

sudo enter-chroot -n CHROOTNAME

[Note that GitHub messes up triple-click select so you'll have to single-click drag select these commands to copy them. Right clicking (tapping with two fingers) pastes into crosh]

Install LXQt with

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install lxqt lxqt-common openbox

Now, install startlxqt into your chroot with

sudo ln -s crouton-noroot /usr/local/bin/startlxqt

Tell crouton you now have LXQt with

sudo sed -i 's/$/,lxqt/' /etc/crouton/targets

Exit your chroot (with exit) - make sure your prompt now shows chronos@localhost.

Now, you'll need to create a startlxqt script in Chrome OS.

Enter

sudo su -c 'cat >/usr/local/bin/startlxqt'

Now, paste in the script:

#!/bin/sh -e
# Copyright (c) 2016 The crouton Authors. All rights reserved.
# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
# found in the LICENSE file.

set -e

APPLICATION="${0##*/}"

USAGE="$APPLICATION [options]

Wraps enter-chroot to start an LXQt session.
By default, it will log into the primary user on the first chroot found.

Options are directly passed to enter-chroot; run enter-chroot to list them."

exec sh -e "`dirname "\`readlink -f -- "$0"\`"`/enter-chroot" -t lxqt "$@" "" \
    exec xinit /usr/bin/startlxqt

Hit enter then Ctrl-D to save your changes.

Finally, paste this in to make startlxqt executable:

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/startlxqt

You can now start LXQt like you would any other DE with startlxqt.

[seagullmania]

No chroots with target 'lxqt' found in /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots

[icecream95]

I've got a feeling you pasted in the command to enter your chroot directly, and tried to enter a chroot called CHROOTNAME.

Try running the steps up to the exit command again, but make sure you replace CHROOTNAME with the actual name of your chroot in the first command - if you get errors such as 'apt-get: command not found', you haven't entered your chroot correctly.

[seagullmania]

I've got a feeling you pasted in the command to enter your chroot directly, and tried to enter a chroot called CHROOTNAME.

Try running the steps up to the exit command again, but make sure you replace CHROOTNAME with the actual name of your chroot in the first command - if you get errors such as 'apt-get: command not found', you haven't entered your chroot correctly.

thats the error from running sudo startlxqt

[icecream95]

Sorry, my fault - it turns out crouton relies on a hidden file .crouton-targets for checking whether you have a target installed, but I thought it was /etc/crouton/targets and didn't bother checking.

Try running this once you've entered your chroot:

echo lxqt | sudo tee -a /.crouton-targets

You might have problems when updating. If you do, enter your chroot, telling it to skip finishing the update, and run this:

sudo sed -i 's/,lxqt//' /etc/crouton/targets

Exit and run the update again.

If an update breaks startlxqt again, you'll have to rerun the first command in this post.

[seagullmania]

ended up installing arch on an sdcard and dual booting, thanks anyways!

[DennisLfromGA]

Just wanted to mention that there is an open PR for this:

• LXQT LXQT #2525

However, the original author recently stated:

I'm not able to work on this currently, and if others would like to take it up, I'm happy to support that.

Hope this helps,
-DennisLfromGA