Hello friends
After seeing lxqt had major upgrade then i wanted to give it a try. Booted from USB Artix Live and so far everything looks operational to me except networkmonitor applet. It is not available in system tray. I also cant add it tray add button doesnt do anything for networkmonitor applet. I am not sure it is related to lxqt or artix. Am i missing something here ?
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What is the exact name of the ISO file you copied to the flash drive?
sorry i forgot to add that information. i used weekly build latest in downloads section.
It is exactly that one i downloaded. Thank you for fast reply.
artix-lxqt-openrc-20220425-x86_64.iso 1.2 GB 2022-04-25 14:27:17
There seem to be other issues with that weekly ISO (Calamares doesn't start), thanks for reporting. This will be looked into. In the meantime, try using one of the "stable" ISOs instead.
In any case, LiveISO is only meant as an installation and repair environment. Installing Artix to hard disk and updating is the intended method of usage.
Thank you then i have to wait for sometime to install latest Artix lxqt (1.1.0-1) into my machine.
You can install Artix from any working ISO, since it is a Rolling release (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_release) distribution. Once installed, you are expected to update from within the installed system by issuing
pacman -Syu
as root, which will pull the latest versions of packages anyway.
It is possible to install any Artix package from any Artix ISO by not using Calamares but terminal-based installation (https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Installation) with artix-chroot and basestrap.
I already am using another enviroment in Artix but I was planinng to migrate from another de to lxqt with wiping partition and installing only lxqt.
That means if i install stable lxqt and upgrade to latest then i wont encounter the network applet problem ? or the problem could still persists after upgrading lxqt from stable to latest ?
You don't need to wipe the partition just to install another DE. You can install them both at the same time, or install one and remove the other.
By the way, I was able to pinpoint the cause of the issue to package
galaxy/libstatgrab not being installed. After running
pacman -S libstatgrab
(in the installed system with LXQt) networkmanager applet is able to start.
Edit: Useful links:
1. https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Installation#Desktop_Environment
2. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Meta_package_and_package_group
It may be possible to update to rebuilt calamares from within the weekly ISO by enabling [gremlins].
Pardon me thats because of my english. I meant i dont want leftover cache or unnecessary packages (Even linux can get bloated depends on the user lol) and wanted a fresh install.
Thank you for your help installing libstatgrab solves the issue related to networkmonitor applet in system tray.
To quote https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#Installing_packages
leftover files are usually configuration files in
$HOME (most often
$HOME/.config and
$HOME/.cache) and other files not owned by a package (most often
/var/cache). Arch wiki has a section dedicated to finding such files (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks#Identify_files_not_owned_by_any_package).
Other than that,
galaxy/ncdu can be used to identify which directories and files take up the most space. And this little Perl script (https://git.sr.ht/~strahinja/dotfiles/tree/master/item/bin/hogpkgs) does the same for installed packages (needs expac).
had the issue with the network applet too , but also with the power applet, when i add redshift, and bluetooth. A quick search came up with the same solution for the network widget, but from past lxqt updates, it does seem to be a vaguely regular thing (not artix, but in general for arch/lxqt).. Fromzero, do you have the same with say the power applet going missing too, even though lxqt-power management is installed by default and functioning (with a tick in the box to show icon)? Basically all applets were there and fine before the lxqt upgrade to 1.1.0
libstatgrab is listed as optdepends (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#optdepends) for
lxqt-panel (even though it currently seems required to start some applets and not optional), so I suggest first trying with its other optdepends.
$ LC_ALL=C pacman -Si galaxy/lxqt-panel
[...]
Optional Deps : libpulse: Volume control plugin
alsa-lib: Volume control plugin
libstatgrab: CPU monitor and Network monitor plugins
libsysstat: System Statistics plugin
lm_sensors: Sensors plugin
I guess the reasoning behind having those dependencies as optional is that they are not required for the basic functionality of lxqt-panel. I agree that error reporting from within lxqt-panel itself could have been better, perhaps with a dialog box informing the user that a certain library is needed. (Perhaps suggest this to upstream.)
thanks for that, but didn't help (the first 2 were already installed, but re-installed anyway). I'm looking at an endeavor lxqt install to cross reference as that seems ok. Shall keep on head scratching for a bit, and will update if i come up with anything.
well, there's a system tray plugin that needs to be added under widgets., and that allows the battery and brightness widgets to show. no luck with redshift or bt yet...
I can confirm you are correct. I did not use lxqt before 1.1.0 release. I made some experiments after reading your replies and noticed you are right about other applets. For power management according to official site it claims its built-in now. https://lxqt-project.org/release/2022/04/15/lxqt-1-1-0/ (https://lxqt-project.org/release/2022/04/15/lxqt-1-1-0/) `Tray icons with the charge percentage inside them are added to LXQt Power Manager.`
About redshift and bluetooth. After reading your replies i have tried a few packages. I installed bluedevil and blueberry and none of them showed in tray icon. But about redshift i have saw it in tray but it complains about cant find any location due to geoclue probably thats another subject.
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Not sure thats a bug or not but maybe it can be worth to mention that i have seen more widgets after adding statusnotifier widget. Probably you are aware of that but just saying for newbies like me.
I think a little update came through last week so I'm back to where it was - with redshift, geoclue2 is required for location unless its manually configured for latitude/longtitude. With bluetooth, add blueman too to see it in systray (although that disables on sleep which is a blueman thing, not an artix or lxqt thing, as it happened many moons ago with xfce and a different base for me too).