Call This a Respin of a Respin? LXQT on AV Linux

[nudiecrudi]

do not undserstand the nitty gritty, but this discussion open some hopes for the future for glen work's fans . not so much fans of e.
i did state several times that i admire glen's creation and dedication, but e does not work for me. please, keep the candle alight

[macronus]

do not undserstand the nitty gritty, but this discussion open some hopes for the future for glen work's fans . not so much fans of e.
i did state several times that i admire glen's creation and dedication, but e does not work for me. please, keep the candle alight

I'm actually a little mystified by this. Is any of this working for you or is it not?

I don't quite understand where much of the hate for Enlightenment is coming from. What was the deal-breaker for me was the lackluster graphical performance because, it turned out, hardware OpenGL compositing was disabled by default. I have no idea why this was done but enabling OpenGL compositing remedied my biggest problem with Enlightenment. Had I known this ahead of time I probably would never have had gone down the road of trying to get LXQT to work on top of AV Linux.

As for my personal feelings towards Enlightenment, it's one of this being a glass half-full/half-empty. I really like Glen's use of the Enlightenment shelf (panel) on the right side of the desktop screen. I'm not so in love with the shelf at the bottom of the screen but this would have been something that i would have acclimated to, with much less effort than trying to get a fully-functional LXQT desktop environment, had I known about fixing my compositing issue.

Much of the reason I prefer LXQT is that I see this as being more of a throwback to Microsoft Windows 2000 for which I'm perfectly comfortable with. The only modernization I've made to my desktop is the addition of a Cairo Dock on the right side to approximately replicate what Glen created within his Enlightenment setup. That and I've enabled autohide for the the LXQT panel at the bottom of the screen.

I'm guessing that maybe more people here are uninterested in trying LXQT because you would also need to install a windows manager such as kwin and configure the two to work together which I guess is too convoluted for some people. With that in mind, I tried installing the budgie desktop environment. This appears to be functioning well but for a few highly specific exceptions: I can't change the desktop background and things go awry when I log out of budgie.

After logging out of budgie, but only with budgie, I find that i can no longer shut down or reboot from any desktop environment nor from the the display manager. The only way out is by my using <ctrl>+<alt>+<f3> to bring up a full-screen command-line interface and type in the command "sudo shutdown -h now" or "sudo shutdown -r now" to shut off or reboot my PC. Everything will then be fine with each of the installed desktop environments the next I boot up and I can shut down from budgie. It's when I log out of budgie and log back in that shutting down will end up going wrong.

My best guess is that there's a zombie process somewhere that's blocking my ability to shut down or reboot but I really don't know.