LXQt Panel Widgets

Brucehankins

I have an early '09 iMac that I've installed Endeavour OS with LXQt on. It works wonderfully on the potato, but I'm missing my power/session widget on the panel. Years of using Budgie, Gnome, and Plasma have made me love just clicking a widget and selecting shut down. I haven't found a way to get this type of widget on LXQt yet so I was wondering if anyone here has had some experience or solutions for this.

brent

Brucehankins from a redditor 8 months ago: "Practical Customization: Get more panel widgets for LXQT or XFCE? I like how snappy and fast those 2 desktops are. But, what prevents me from using them is the lack of good panel widgets. For example, the calendar and volume widgets of LXQT are very minimal, almost to call them horrible."

was always partial to lxqt when trying distros but did not stick around long enough to notice this. btw, no one answered his question in the thread. search engine seems futile. https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-powermanagement was an oddball approach to the matter. I see custom github widgets for other functions but not power.

these guys give up entirely and recommend some centralized launchers. I actually looked for a while today....and really thought I'd find some third-party widget treasure chest for you but I couldn't...I thought there would be some place...🙁

Brucehankins

brent I found a workaround with the help of Dan Simmons. I can add another Quick Launch widget to the panel, move it to the end, and drag the shutdown menu to that specific Quick Launch section. It's not ideal, but I'll make sacrifices. It's about all I've found so far that runs this well on the hardware. And idling at 603mb is impressive.

elfprince

Brucehankins Just wanted to add to this that you can easily shutdown from the terminal, by aliasing the shutdown command. Something like this: alias off='sudo poweroff'. That is what I do, so I don't have to play with the mouse. 😀

brent

elfprince
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Brucehankins

elfprince I've got to copy over all my aliases still. Just switched to fish on there as well and haven't got those set up. I really dislike pacman, so I've thought about alising everything to match eopkg 😂

brent

Brucehankins Am surprised a DE this popular does not have a dependable site to corral these widgets and even more surprised an Arch family (Endeavour) flavor with the humongous AUR reserves doesn't have an inventive stable of functional power widgets. Makes me think that widgets, universally, don't get the love?

Brucehankins

brent LXQt is still relatively immature when compared to something like XFCE, KDE, or Gnome. They just hit their 1.1 release recently. I'm sure there's probably something out there in the AUR, but I try and stay clear of that if possible.
As far as Endeavor support, I've got the wiki but haven't joined or read the forums there yet. I ended up asking the Linux User Space group too because Dan is also a member of the Libuntu project.