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From:
"Robert B. Carleton" <rbc@rbcarleton.net>
Subject:
Re: LXQt Icon Themes
To:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:48:35 -0500

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On 8/29/26 09:10, Robert B. Carleton wrote:
> On 8/28/26 19:25, Robert B. Carleton wrote:
>> On 8/13/26 06:57, Robert B. Carleton wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/13/26 03:05, landry@openbsd.org wrote:
>>>> Le Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 06:36:55PM -0500, Robert B. Carleton a écrit :
>>>>> I have a suggested addition for the lxqt, or lxqt-extras package as a
>>>>> dependency. The kf6-breeze-icons package adds the Breeze-style 
>>>>> light and dark
>>>>> icon themes, including the icons for LXQt QTerminal icons. These 
>>>>> don't seem to
>>>>> be in the Oxygen icon theme. This is from testing on the 7.9 release.
>>>>
>>>> im not sure i follow you, the qterminal package ships
>>>> share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/qterminal.png, and x11/oxygen-icons nor
>>>> devel/kf6/breeze-icons ship an icon for qterminal (actually, only moka
>>>> and paper icon themes do, from the pkgs in the portstree).
>>>>
>>>> or are you talking about icons used by qterminal for its own buttons ?
>>>
>>> I'm talking about the icons used in the start menu by LXQt for 
>>> QTerminal. They didn't appear with just the Oxygen theme installed. 
>>> Just the text appears in the menu for QTerminal. Adding the Breeze 
>>> icons and selecting them provided a QTerminal icon in the LXQt menus.
>>
>> I installed the current OpenBSD snapshot on a spare machine, so I 
>> could try LXQt 2.4.0 (Thanks!). So far, I've just been loading and 
>> using LXQt without getting into the details, so my feedback is not 
>> very informed yet.
>>
>> I loaded the lxqt-extras package to start, but none of the 
>> applications are showing up in the menus. It seems more broken than 
>> LXQt 2.1.0 on the OpenBSD 7.9 release.
>>
>> I did use the suggested .xsession in the package readme. Maybe this 
>> could be added to suppress the locale errors captured in the attached 
>> xsession-errors file:
>>
>> # Set the locale
>> export LC_ALL="C.UTF-8"
>>
>> I'll try to do some familiarization with LXQt this weekend, and 
>> provide some more specific feedback. Maybe the missing menu entries 
>> are easy to fix.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>              --Bruce
> 
> So, the menu file wasn't selected in the "Fancy Menu Settings". The work 
> around is to select the lxqt-applications.menu file. The file exists, 
> and the settings UI opens the correct directory to find it.
> 
> Entering the menu settings is accomplished with a right click on the 
> menu button in the lower left hand corner of the desktop. Maybe there is 
> some way to populate the settings with the correct menu file at 
> installation.

One more suggestion for the .xinitrc/.xsession in the package readme, at 
least with twm/openbox:

# Start the compositing manager
xcompmgr -n &