Re: lxqt-wayland-session

On 12/22/25 7:40 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> On 12/22/25 6:17 PM, Joe Locash wrote:
>> On 12/21/25 4:03 PM, Bruce Dubbs ([email protected] via 
>> blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote:
>>> I have added lxqt-wayland-session to the book and it works.
>>>
>>> It would be helpful for others to both check the instructions and
>>> the functionality.  Starting lxqt is described in the
>>> 'LXQt Desktop Final Instructions' page.
>>>
>>> Feedback is appreciated. 
>> I tried starting it with startlxqtwayland and I get this:
>>    No compositor configured yet in Session Settings, trying labwc...
>>    /usr/bin/startlxqtwayland: line 99: exec: labwc: not found
>> What compositor did you test with?
>
> I have openbox configured but I'm not sure that is used.
>
> The file is ~/.config/lxqt/session.conf with contents:
>
> [General]
> __userfile__=true
> compositor=/opt/kf6/bin/kwin_wayland
> window_manager=/usr/bin/openbox
>
> =======
>
> We may need to add kwin_wayland to the KDE packages at the start of 
> the lxqt
> chapter.  The problem with that is Arch shows 66 dependencies:
> https://archlinux.org/packages/kde-unstable/x86_64/kwin/
>
> A list of window managers is at 
> /usr/share/lxqt/waylandwindowmanagers.conf
>
> There seems to be confusion in names.  ~/.config/lxqt/session.conf says
> compositor but /usr/share/lxqt/waylandwindowmanagers.conf says 
> [KnownManagers] 

With Wayland the window manager is typically replaced with a compositor, 
unless the WM has wayland support (ie mutter). Openbox doesn't support 
wayland so in this case your kwin_wayland is the WM. Do a ps and you 
won't see an openbox process running.

Adding kwin for lxqt seems rediculous to me. I built and tested with 
labwc and it worked perfectly fine. It would require adding 5 (maybe 6) 
packages to the book but I think that's better than having a user build 
the 50+ packages of KDE crap for it.

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