Hi,
I’m used to using Fed 41 lxqt spin.
On the menu I have Openbox configuration manager and Openbox Settings.
I just installed Fed42 lxqt spin on a laptop and both these options fails to start.
One gave an error about Wayland the other just failed to do anything.
I tried going via Fed41 installation and upgrading , it says there is blockage with sddm-x11
Are there issues with Wayland using LXQT.
I’m not sure about LXQT, but openbox needs X, it won’t run in Wayland. There is an equivalent, labwc, that does work in Wayland.
Again, I have no experience with the LXQT spin, so, hopefully, someone with more knowledge will step in.
I guess it is just the sddm which rejects to login x11 sessions. SDDM is default for KDE and this comes since F42 without the x11 login options.
Have you tested with lightdm. As I remember it supports both x11 & Wailand. It is also used with other spins which still use x11.
In F42, the LXQt spin uses Wayland by default, with the Miriway compositor, not Openbox. Miriway does not have a settings app yet. But Openbox should still be installed - in the login screen (SDDM), at the top left there should be a menu with 3 options, something like
Select LXQt Desktop, this should get you into the usual LXQt X11 session with Openbox.
Thanks for all the replies.
It seems the Fed42 lxqt spin is not that finished. No set up is a bit of a joke.
I did manage to work around it by installing Fed41 then doing system upgrade with –allowerasing
That did update and I have working Openbox settup manager.
It is a change request for F43 to add the Browser-based installer for all spins. Following the editions since F42.
That is not pertinent to this issue, but since you mention it, I’m opposed. I do NOT want my distro to become an online service, which will inevitably end up sniffing and tracking personal info off my system. Then we end up with Windows 11.
I just dropped Kubuntu for this installation because despite downloading 4.2GB iso it refused to install without a live connection. That’s BS.
For the moment Fedora won that side of my choice. I hope it doesnt follow the same path.
If everyone follows that same path, before long there’s no point in running Linux any more.
It’s really “browser-based” rather than “web-based”. The installer workflow is presented using HTML pages in Firefox, but the install can be done completely offline (unless you deliberately choose the “Everything” / “netinstall” ISO which is buried a few pages down on the website).
thanks. What part of the “workflow” is browser based ?
Netinstall iso is fine as an option.
I can’t partition my disk on line and I sure won’t configure my user/root login on line. Selecting time-zone language/kb is sniffing.
Apart from chosing x86/arm I don’t platform I don’t want to give any info before I install a system and set what data sharing I want to allow.
All of the GUI screens where you choose the installation options. This is the case in Fedora 42 for Workstation (GNOME) only, but will be rolled out in F43 for all the other desktop environments I believe. (Not Server or netinstall.)
Again, it’s browser-based not web-based, the browser is used to display local HTML files. You can feel free to disconnect the network cable of course.
The naming in general is bad chosen. The correct expression would probably be Html-based-installer. WebUI also implies something with internet.
@fredk9 sorry for the confusion it caused. I changed the expression wrong used from my side to browser-based as @pg-tips proposed. It is really just the installer, accounts are still locally and no internet needet to connect to your machine.
I tested the F42 ISO too and there is Indeed an issue with it. I downloaded it from the following location:
1. Index of /pub/fedora/linux/releases/42/Spins/x86_64/iso # is not working
2. (https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/43/Spins/x86_64/iso/) # is working
The second link F43 Prerelease is working fine. @fredk9 please help test the new version, this way we do have a continuous working Lxqt ISO.
F42 worked fine for me. Remember you need to log out and log in again to X11 (the LXQt Desktop option in SDDM)
The Live ISO? I talk about this. I just got a black screen with the F42 Live ISO.
With F43 I could log in.
Oh lol, I thought you just meant Openbox settings didn’t open.