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lxqt-admin

Overview

This repository provides two GUI tools to adjust settings of the operating system LXQt is running on.

Both are using polkit to handle permissions. In contrast to the specific backends described below, earlier versions of lxqt-admin were relying on system-tools-backends and their wrapper liboobs. These were replaced, as both have gone unmaintained for years and were hence dropped from many distributions - heavily restricting the usage of lxqt-admin. As long as they can be built, it should still be possible to compile lxqt-admin release ≤ 0.10 against them in order to make use of it on platforms lacking systemd (like BSD).

Time and date configuration

Adjusts the time and date. Binary is lxqt-admin-time.

It is using systemd-timedated as its backend, which is accessed by its D-Bus interface. As such, this means the option to sync the system time by NTP is relying on systemd-timesyncd as a backend.

User and Group Settings

Management of users and groups. Binary is lxqt-admin-user.

The backend is a script, lxqt-admin-user-helper. As such, it is using the shadow tools to do the actual work. However, the script can still be modified to use different tools.

Installing

Compiling sources

Runtime dependencies consist of polkit and liblxqt. A polkit agent should be available with lxqt-policykit, representing the first choice in LXQt. Additional build dependencies are CMake and optionally Git, to pull the latest VCS checkouts.

Code configuration is handled by CMake. CMake variable CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX will normally have to be set to /usr.

To build, run make. To install, run make install which accepts variable DESTDIR as usual.

Binary packages

Package lxqt-admin is available in the official repositories of all major distributions.

openSUSE

openSUSE does not ship with lxqt-admin in it's standard repositories since the functionality is covered by openSUSE's YaST. It is still possible to install & use it on openSUSE.

Usage

Much like similar tools provided by lxqt-config, the tools of lxqt-admin can be launched from the Configuration Center, as well as from the panel's main menu - Preferences - LXQt settings.

The actual usage should be self-explanatory. To apply settings the GUI of the polkit authentication agent that's in use is launched to acquire the root password.

Translations

Translations can be done in LXQt-Weblate/admin-user and in LXQt-weblate/admin-time.