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# lxqt-config
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## Overview
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This repository is providing several tools involved in the configuration of both LXQt and the underlying operating system.
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On the one hand it is featuring several GUI tools to configure topics like general appearance, pointer devices or screen resolutions.
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On the other hand there's a GUI "Configuration Center" which summarizes all those configuration tools as well as counterparts of other LXQt components or third-party applications.
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### Configuration GUI tools
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#### LXQt Appearance Configuration
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Appearance of LXQt, that is topics like icon and LXQt theme or fonts.
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Binary `lxqt-config-appearance`.
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#### Brightness
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Brightness settings of output devices.
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Technically colors are adjusted to simulate varying brightness if the system LXQt is running on doesn't allow for adjusting the brightness itself.
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Binary `lxqt-config-brightness`.
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#### File Associations
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Assigns MIME types to applications used to handle them. Not too user-friendly so far, see e. g. discussion in https://github.com/lxde/lxqt/issues/433.
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Binary `lxqt-config-file-associations`.
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#### Keyboard and Mouse
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Configures hardware of pointer devices. Settings like repeat delay and interval of keyboards or acceleration of pointer devices.
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Binary `lxqt-config-input`.
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#### Locale
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Locale used within LXQt sessions. Basically this GUI sets the well-known environment variables like `LANG` or `LC_*`. The settings apply to the session as a whole, that is to applications running within LXQt sessions but not belonging to LXQt, too.
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Binary `lxqt-config-locale`.
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#### Monitor Settings
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Adjusts screen resolutions, positioning of screens and the likes.
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Binary `lxqt-config-monitor`.
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### Configuration Center
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The "Configuration Center" (binary `lxqt-config`) is summarizing and providing various configuration GUIs.
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First of all these are the ones belonging to repository lxqt-config described [above](https://github.com/pmattern/lxqt-config#configuration-gui-tools). Next, it is hosting counterparts of several other LXQt components like "Desktop Notifications" of [lxqt-notificationd](https://github.com/lxde/lxqt-notificationd), "Shortcut Keys" of [lxqt-globalkeyshortcuts](https://github.com/lxde/lxqt-globalkeyshortcuts) or the tools provided by [lxqt-admin](https://github.com/lxde/lxqt-admin). Third-party applications can include their configuration tools in "Configuration Center", too. This applies e. g. to "Connman UI Setup" of [cmst](https://github.com/andrew-bibb/cmst) or "SDDM Configuration" of [sddm-config-editor](https://github.com/hagabaka/sddm-config-editor).
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## Installation
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### Compiling source code
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Runtime dependencies are Xcursor, qtsvg, KScreen and [liblxqt](https://github.com/lxde/liblxqt).
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Additional build dependencies are CMake and optionally Git to pull latest VCS checkouts. The localization files were outsourced to repository [lxqt-l10n](https://github.com/lxde/lxqt-l10n) so the corresponding dependencies are needed, too. Please refer to this repository's `README.md` for further information.
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Code configuration is handled by CMake. CMake variable `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX` has to be set to `/usr` on most operating systems, depending on the way library paths are dealt with on 64bit systems variables like `CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR` may have to be set as well.
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To build run `make`, to install `make install` which accepts variable `DESTDIR` as usual.
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### Binary packages
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The library is provided by all major Linux distributions like Arch Linux, Debian (as of Debian stretch only), Fedora and openSUSE. Just use your package manager to search for string `lxqt-config`.
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## Usage
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Both the various configuration tools and the Configuration Center can be launched from the panel's main menu - Preferences - LXQt settings. Obviously the former can be launched from the latter, too.
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