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PCManFM-Qt
Overview
PCManFM-Qt is the Qt port of PCManFM, the file manager of LXDE.
In LXQt sessions it is in addition used to handle the desktop. Nevertheless it can be used independently of LXQt as well.
PCManFM-Qt is licensed under the terms of the GPLv2 or any later version. See file LICENSE for its full text.
Installation
Compiling source code
Runtime dependencies are qtx11extras, lxmenu-data,
liblxqt and
libfm-qt.
Additional build dependencies are CMake and optionally Git to pull latest VCS
checkouts. The localization files were outsourced to repository
lxqt-l10n so the corresponding dependencies
are needed, too. Please refer to this repository's README.md
for further information.
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.
To build run make
, to install make install
which accepts variable DESTDIR
as usual.
Binary packages
Official binary packages are available in Arch Linux, Debian (as of Debian stretch), Fedora (version 0.10.0 only so far) and openSUSE (Leap 42.1 and Tumbleweed).
Usage
The file manager functionality should be self-explanatory, handling of the desktop deserves some notes:
To handle the desktop binary pcmanfm-qt
has to be launched with switch
--desktop
set. Optionally switch --profile
can be used to safe settings
specific to certain session types like the different desktop environments.
In LXQt sessions, PCManFM-Qt is launched with theses switches set as
LXQt Module.
To configure the desktop there's a dialogue "Desktop Preferences". Technically
it corresponds with launching pcmanfm-qt
with switch --desktop-pref
set. It
is available in the desktop's context menu and included as topic "Desktop" in
sub-menu Preferences - LXQt settings of the panel's main menu as well as the
Configuration Center
of lxqt-config.
All switches (command line options) mentioned above are explained in detail in
man 1 pcmanfm-qt
.
Development
Issues should go to the tracker of PCManFM-Qt at https://github.com/lxqt/pcmanfm-qt/issues.