Bug 543382 – lxqt upon initial installation doesn't fallback to global conf file settings

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description Guy 2015-03-15 01:43:00 UTC]

Starting lxqt the first time displays only a black screen with a few white icon boxes at the bottom of the screen.

Once the theme and icon are explicitly set, the problem is resolved.

Note this listing:

firebook ~ # ls -la .config/lxqt/
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 270 Mar 14 20:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  28 Mar 14 20:18 ..
-rw------- 1 root root  28 Mar 14 10:40 desktop.conf
-rw------- 1 root root 768 Mar 14 20:17 globalkeyshortcuts.conf
-rw------- 1 root root  94 Mar 14 20:17 lxqt-powermanagement.conf
-rw------- 1 root root  28 Mar 14 10:40 lxqt-runner.conf
-rw------- 1 root root  92 Mar 14 20:25 lxqt.conf
-rw------- 1 root root  28 Mar 14 10:40 notifications.conf
-rw------- 1 root root 653 Mar 14 20:17 panel.conf
-rw------- 1 root root  28 Mar 14 10:40 power.conf
-rw------- 1 root root  28 Mar 14 10:40 session.conf

The files with a timestamp of 10:XX were created when the first time lxqt was run. This is when there was only a black screen with several white icon boxes.

The files with a timestamp of 20:XX were created when I updated the theme and icon settings.

Then the user's ~/.config/lxqt/lxqt.conf file doesn't yet exist, it's supposed to fallback to the global file /etc/xdg/lxqt/lxqt.conf. It doesn't appear to do that resulting in the black screen and white icons.

I've talked with upstream via irc at freenode #lxqt. They're looking at it but are not sure it's a packaging problem or part of the work in progress.

The work arounds in related bug# 543380 work fine. i.e. emerge ogygen-icons if you don't already have them and explicitly set your theme and icon set.

[Comment 1 Guy 2015-03-16 14:52:19 UTC]

I've been doing some testing wrt this. I can now reliably demonstrate the problem.

# useradd -c 'Test for LXQT 01' -m test01
# passwd test01        (set a password of your choice)
clt-alt-F2             (-F6) (open a new console)
login: test01
password:
XSESSION=lxqt startx -- :2

The leftmost bottom white box is the menu button. Click this. Fixed bug# 543380 will now show icons with the menu items.

log out

At the top of your screen (depending on how many lines your screen displays at one t time and how many status lines output by X) you should see the following message:

Theme: Cannot open file for reading: "/lxqt-session.qss"

I hope this helps.

[Comment 2 Guy 2016-05-01 20:05:16 UTC]

This should be closed as latest versions of lxqt no longer exhibit this paticular behavior.