How to install Lumina Desktop on Linux Mint 18.3
To install Lumina Desktop on Linux Mint 18.3
Lumina DE is a lightweight, BSD licensed desktop environment designed specifically for use on FreeBSD, but now it can be used in several distributions. Lumina is based on Qt 5 and Fluxbox window manager. The Lumina Desktop Environment is a lightweight system interface that is designed for use on any Unix-like operating system. It takes a plugin-based approach, allowing the entire interface to be assembled/arranged by each individual user as desired, with a system-wide default layout which was set up by the system administrator. This allows every system to be designed to maximize the individual user’ s productivity.
Features:
- Change wallpaper image for each monitor or set lists of wallpapers to rotate between (with a defined time between rotations).
- Switch theme or color scheme by selecting from the pre-defined list.
- Quickly customize a theme or color scheme by using the editors which are built-in to the Lumina configuration utility.
- Quickly select from any of the installed icon theme packs.
- Instantly change the font/size to be used for the entire desktop
- Provides the “ lumina-open” command-line utility for opening files and directories.
- Support for loading custom QML scripts as desktop plugins.
- Power-users can easily setup or change things like keyboard shortcuts and default applications through the configuration utility.
- Make your system interface as busy or as minimalist as you like!
Installing Lumina Desktop
First, make sure you update the system by making use of the following command.
linuxhelp user # apt-get update
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Once it is done, you need to add the necessary repository by making use of the following command.
linuxhelp user # add-apt-repository ppa:samoilov-lex/lumina-desktop
You are about to add the following PPA:
Lumina-DE is a lightweight, BSD licensed desktop environment designed specifically for use on FreeBSD (although it should be easily portable to other Unix-like OS' s as well). Lumina is based on Qt 5 (without QML) and Fluxbox window manager.
The Lumina Desktop Environment is a lightweight system interface that is designed for use on any Unix-like operating system. It takes a plugin-based approach, allowing the entire interface to be assembled/arranged by each individual user as desired, with a system-wide default layout which was setup by the system administrator. This allows every system (or user session) to be designed to maximize the individual user’ s productivity.
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Once it is done, you need to update the system again.
linuxhelp user # apt-get update
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And now you shall proceed with the installation by install Lumina-desktop
linuxhelp user # apt-get install lumina-desktop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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The following additional packages will be installed:
acpi fluxbox libid3tag0 libimlib2 libluminautils1 libphonon4qt5-4 libqt5multimedia5 libqt5multimediawidgets5 libxcb-damage0 libxcb-ewmh2 lumina-archiver
lumina-calculator lumina-config lumina-data lumina-fileinfo lumina-fm lumina-info lumina-open lumina-screenshot lumina-search lumina-textedit
lumina-xconfig lxpolkit lxsession-data menu numlockx oxygen-icon-theme oxygen5-icon-theme phonon-backend-gstreamer-common phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer
sysstat xbacklight xscreensaver
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fbpager fbdesk fbautostart menu-l10n phonon-backend-gstreamer isag xfishtank xdaliclock qcam | streamer gdm3 | kdm-gdmcompat
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lumina-textedit lumina-xconfig lxpolkit lxsession-data menu numlockx oxygen-icon-theme oxygen5-icon-theme phonon-backend-gstreamer-common
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The installation is now over you shall activate Lumina Desktop on terminal by making use of the following command.
linuxhelp user # lumina-desktop
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So, now go to Linux Mint search field.
Type Lumina on Linux Mint search field.
And when the application icon appears, click on it. It will lead you to Lumina Desktop configuration.
The Monitor configuration now appears.
Click the Lumina Screenshot if you want to create a screenshot.
You can easily take a screenshot
And now click on the Lumina text editor through the Applications.
You can edit text files with this Lumina text editor.
Open the Lumina desktop environment
The Lumina desktop menu now appears.
Open the Lumina Desktop Calendar to make modification to the time and date.
Right-click option of Lumina desktop
With this, the installation of Lumina Desktop on Linux Mint 18.3 comes to an end.
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What is the current development status of the Lumina?
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Lumina® desktop is currently in 1.0 RELEASE status. There are many utilities that are built into Lumina that help it function as a complete desktop environment. Lumina® is very stable and completely usable on a daily basis for both developers and non-developers alike. The window manager portion of Lumina® is still in active development and will most likely be released sometime in 2017.
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How to install Lumina on Ubuntu?
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For the installation of the Lumina on Ubuntu, use the following link as given below "https://www.linuxhelp.com/how-to-install-lumina-desktop-in-ubuntu/"
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what is the latest and stable version for this desktop?
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1.4.0 is stable version of this.
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How to get the Github repository of the Lumina?
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Get the Github repository of the Lumina, use the following link as given below "https://github.com/lumina-desktop/lumina"
Does not require any of the commonly-used desktop implementation frameworks (DBUS, policykit, consolekit, systemd, HALD, etc..).
Does not come bundled with any “end-user” applications (web browsers, email clients, multimedia software, office suites, etc..). The only utilities that Lumina brings to the table by default are the ones written specifically for the project and are generally for background/utilitarian functionality (the largest utility is the file manager).
Simple text-based configuration file for setting system-wide defaults for new users. This allows distributors of the desktop to easily pre-set the system defaults/interface so it just works for the end user.